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| 2007-12-09 |
Development Release: Vine Linux 4.2 RC1 |
| Daisuke Suzuki has announced the first release candidate for Vine Linux 4.2, a Japanese community distribution for desktops and servers. This is the second maintenance release of the Vine Linux 4.x series; if no major bugs are found, the final version can be expected in about 10 days from today. The most important changes since version 4.1 are the inclusion of various new or updated device drivers into the kernel (forcedeth, 3w-9xxx, r8169, intel-agp, tg3, suspend2, e1000e, atl1, Broadcom NetXtremeII...), addition of new packages (scim-bridge, Totem plugin for Mozilla, usbutils and ipw3945 driver utilities), incorporation of all errata and security fixes, and package updates (Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11, LVM 2.02.28, device-mapper 1.02.22, dvd+rw-tools 7.0...). Please visit the project's beta page (in Japanese) for a detailed changelog and a list of known issues. Download from here: Vine42-rc1-i386.iso (644MB, SHA1). |
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| About Vine Linux |
| Vine Linux is a supreme Linux distribution with integrated Japanese environment for desktop PCs and notebooks. Project Vine was founded by six members of the Project Japanese Extension (JPE) in 1998 and has been developing Vine Linux with help of many members and volunteers. Vine Seed, the development version of Vine Linux, is a public software repository, which all developers are welcome to join and contribute to. Out-of-the-box Kanji support is available throughout most applications and Japanese input support is provided by either the FreeWnn (or Wnn6 in the commercial "CR" edition) or the Canna input server. |
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