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| 2009-08-21 |
Development Release: CRUX 2.6 RC1 |
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Tilman Sauerbeck has announced the availability of the first release candidate for CRUX 2.6, a lightweight, i686-optimised Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users: "The first release candidate of the upcoming CRUX 2.6 release is available now. CRUX 2.6 includes glibc 2.10.1, GCC 4.4.1, Binutils 2.19.1, Linux kernel 2.6.30.x and X.Org 7.4. Important changes: XZ/LZMA support has been added to libarchive, it's possible to use .xz and .lzma source-archives in our ports now; libusb has been updated to version 1.0, to keep compatibility with version 0.1 a new port libusb-compat has been added to core; using the file modprobe.conf to configure modprobe is deprecated, use *.conf files in /etc/modprobe.d/ instead; LVM is now available during install." Read the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download the installation CD image from here: crux-2.6-rc1.iso (264MB, MD5). |
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| About CRUX |
| CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimised Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is "keep it simple", which is reflected in a simple tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries. |
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