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FlashLinux 0.3.2 - now available

Submitted by oddjobz on Thu, 2004-12-02 20:56. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

Following our initial release last week we've been working on fixing a couple of glaring problems and trying to incorporate some of the suggestions put forward in the initial release thread. Hopefully this release fixes "everything" and adds some nice new features. Check out the project page for more details or the screenshot page for the new look.

FlashLinux version 0.3.2 is available for download from Source Forge.

Change / Bugfixes Summary

* Printing and network printing is fixed
* Failure to recognise /dev/sda1 at boot time on some BIOS's has been fixed
* Failure to correctly recognise some video cards and sound hardware has been fixed
* /tmp is now handled using tmpfs
* /lib/dev-state is now handled using tmpfs
* Any local disk based swap space is auto-detected and used
* All local drives (IDE and SATA) are auto-detected and presented to the user
* "gthumb" is now available for importing photos from digital cameras
* The bootsplash theme has been changed to "MetallTux"
* gtk+-1 and glib-1 support has been removed
* The system now boots up under VMWARE so long as you add the "doscsi" option in the grub command line
* The X cursor (Blue) can now be changed back to the system default if desired
* gnomesu has been added and gnome-ppp now runs via this from a user account
* GRUB screen resolution has been removed in favour of the ddc-probe
* Various unused packages / files have been removed

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Re; AbiWord/Gnumeric

Submitted by oddjobz on Fri, 2004-12-03 12:53.

This version is also available as of now.

If you prefer these to OpenOffice, you'll get a whacking 95Mb of free space on the key.

There are a couple of fixes in this image too, details;
http://www.encryptec.net/news/flashlinux032X

At the moment we can (relatively easily) track a number of parallel images for different software configurations .. if anyone downloads this version we'll maintain it in parallel with the main distro.

Just installed it works very well

Submitted by Uraeus on Fri, 2004-12-03 12:25.

FlashLinux is rather nifty actually, think I will look into tweaking it a bit to use for demoing the Fluendo Streaming server :) Thanks for the great work!

Is there a "Howto" for adding

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2004-12-03 11:16.

Is there a "Howto" for adding packages to FlashLinux? Some of us have larger keys and may want to customize the distro.

Re; Customising

Submitted by oddjobz on Fri, 2004-12-03 12:49.

Hi,

Sadly not. As it's based on a cramfs disk image, installing software on a system-wide basis isn't possible. (not to mention that things like compilers were the first things out the door)

If you compile up software on your workstation and give it a --prefix=/home//local at configure time, you should then be able to install it into your home directory. (if that helps?)

smaller keys

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2004-12-12 15:47.

what i'd want to do is install it onto a 128mg key
how would we do that?

mahir@blueyonder.co.uk

Just to clarify

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2004-12-03 08:04.

FlashLinux is a GNOME-based distro created to fit on a 256MB USB key.

FlashLinux? by Anonymous George

Re; Story

Submitted by oddjobz on Fri, 2004-12-03 06:51.

Sorry, didn't want to duplicate too much. Click on the "initial release thread" link in the header for more details.