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Calculate Utilities 3.4.5 released

Added by Alexander Tratsevskiy over 8 years ago

General

  • The code was completely rewritten.
  • Calling cl-console from the French locale fixed.
  • Process breaks fixed.
  • Partial Ukrainian localization
  • Json format supported in templates.
  • Templates now handling binary files as they should.
  • Templates execution fixed for VFAT filesystem.
  • Option choice is now correct.
  • Variables were added for types of the running system.
  • New locales added.
  • Files in the /etc/env.d directory are edited correctly by templates (env-update being launched automatically).
  • Locale switch fixed on the LiveCD.

Installation

  • The cl-install-flash command was added for an even simpler USB Flash installation.
  • The "--type" option is no more available in cl-install.
  • You can install CL on your USB drive without previously formatting the media.
  • If the USB drive is already mounted, direct installation is possible.
  • If booting from a Live USB image, the USB volume will be mounted with write privileges.
  • Auto-partition parameters were modified. The available options now are: "swap" - create a swap partition (default), "update" - create a partition for update from the ISO image (default), "calculate" - create a mount point in /var/calculate, containing user directories and configuration (default), "uefi" - use the UEFI bootloader (turned on if needed), "lvm" - use LVM.

Desktop

  • SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager) support added.
  • KDE5 avatars now supported.

GUI manager

  • Can be launched in a KDE5 environment.
  • Miscellaneous graphics fixes.

Build your own system

  • Flash multiboot images were moved from /iso to /linux.
  • Multiple fixes of problems with system image preparing, restore, update and packing.
  • New update modalities for the Flash menu, using the cl-update-boot-live command.
  • Configuration now possible for HDD Live.
  • ISO creation fixed for boot-up USB drive.
  • New layout of available images for Flash and HDD Live.

Calculate Utilities 3.4.0 released

Added by Alexander Tratsevskiy over 8 years ago

General

  • You do not have to boot into Builder mode to build a LiveCD CL system.
  • Multiboot Flash drives are supported.
  • gfxboot support added.
  • A new format was added for profile inheritance.
  • Dutch language is now supported.
  • The wallpaper size determined correctly for your screen resolution.

Installation

  • Proprietary drivers install faster, as all dependencies are now fetched from binaries.

Update

  • Tags will be used from now on for repo synchronization.
  • Automatic detection added for the update server.
  • cl-update running correctly in tmux.

GUI manager

  • The no-certificate problem fixed for application launching.
  • Action icons fixed.
  • Tables output fixed.

Build your own system

  • We provide support for:
    • data preparation for building from Calculate ISO images;
    • switching between build profiles;
    • package update within builds;
    • packing to ISO images;
    • basic build data rescue after reboot.
  • Builder mode is not and will not be used.
  • You need to compile your kernel with overlayfs support if you want to build
    in layers.

Calculate Utilities 3.3.3 released

Added by Alexander Tratsevskiy over 8 years ago

  • 'Dconf' support was added.
  • We optimized the /etc/init.d/calculate script.
  • Auto-partition settings were modified.
  • Calling the home directory as '~' is now possible within the 'grep()' function.
  • If the package list contains blocked packages, cl-update will not use cache.
  • Fastlogin was fixed for the LiveCD.
  • Server connection issues fixed for cl-console-gui.

Calculate Utilities 3.3.2 released

Added by Alexander Tratsevskiy almost 9 years ago

  • Layman 2.3 supported.
  • A script tool was added for faster calculation of variables contained in /usr/libexec/calculate/cl-variable.
  • Local login optimization.
  • Optimized package configuration at compilation time.
  • Optimized handling of calculate.env and ini.env files.
  • 'emerge --info' output optimized.
  • Fetching binaries detection fixed for cl-update.
  • Kernel update fixed, as part of system update.
  • The EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS problem fixed.
  • Support added for \xAA symbols within the grep function.
  • Short autopartitioning options added for cl-install.
  • VMWare and Virtio detection added.
  • Domain logout bug fixed.
  • Files in the CONFIG_PROTECT directory now handled correctly.

Calculate Toolkit 0.1.5 released

Added by Alexander Tratsevskiy about 9 years ago

cl-kernel

  • Bulgarian localization added.
  • The user is notified that kernel modules need to be rebuilt.
  • Initramfs is packed with gzip because of problems with lz4.

Calculate Toolkit 0.1.2 released

Added by Alexander Tratsevskiy about 9 years ago

cl-kernel

  • A new option, "--noclean", was introduced to skip 'make clean' before kernel compilation.
  • A new option, "--skip-config", was added to skip kernel customization.
  • localversion support added.

Calculate Utilities 3.3.1.1 released

Added by Alexander Tratsevskiy about 9 years ago

  • The architecture can be specified when configuring a package and applying patches.
  • The 'kernel' template was improved.
  • Configuration can be skipped for specific packages provided by overlays, via new variables we added: cl_setup_skip_merge, cl_setup_skip_patch, cl_setup_skip_profile.
  • Two new functions were added: grep() and kernel().
  • Rsync 3.1.0 supported.
  • Video card detection bug fixed.
  • Patches that contain new files only are now applied correctly in "diff" templates.
  • Inside the pkg() function, USE flags are now processed with no errors on the system to be installed.
  • On newly installed systems, the kernel configuration should be retrieved with no problems.
  • The template bug fixed for domain hosts.

Calculate Utilities 3.3.0.7 released

Added by Alexander Tratsevskiy about 9 years ago

  • Network interfaces are now named correctly with eudev.
  • The 'discard' option was added for xfs, jfs and fat filesystems.
  • 'noop' is used as the default I/O scheduler for VirtualBox volumes.
  • TuxOnIce support detection added for the kernel.
  • The -R (--skip-revdep-rebuild) option was added to skip revdep-rebuild at update time.
  • cl-update will not build in parallel mode (forced behaviour).

Calculate Utilities 3.3.0.4 released

Added by Alexander Tratsevskiy about 9 years ago

  • A new time-optimized template format, "kernel", was added for kernel configuration.
  • Fetching of the list of available IO schedulers (--scheduler list) fixed: those provided by the kernel are now taken into account.
  • Autoselection added for the IO scheduler.
  • The "discard" option was implemented for mounting ext4 partitions on SSD drives.
  • The output of the ~/.calculate/ini.env update will be hidden.

Calculate Utilities 3.3.0 released

Added by Alexander Tratsevskiy about 9 years ago

  • All Calculate Utilities blended in one package, sys-apps/calculate-utils.
  • File removal with template headed as "append=remove" fixed.
  • Special characters support added for the replace() function in templates.
  • Device detection fixed for partitioning.
  • Installation on kvm virtio drives fixed.
  • CD drive detection fixed.
  • Grub 2.02 support added.
  • Btrfs mounting options added for SSD.
  • X autologin fixed.
  • Naming of network interfaces fixed.
  • Data display prior to Flash install fixed.
  • Process status detection fixed for cl-core.
  • Creation of symbolic links for cl-core commands fixed.
  • Moved from SSLv3 to TLSv1_2.
  • Comma separators fixed for options.
  • CIFS drives of domain users mounting correctly now.
  • Condition of the ac_client_undomain event fixed.
  • Autologin from a LiveCD fixed for domain clients.
  • USE flags support added for the pkg() function.
  • Old kernel removal fixed.
  • Detection of binaries at update time fixed.

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