Snapshot on August 23, 2019

Made it to test GNOME Desktop Environment.

BEFORE STARTING XORG: add exec gnome-session in ~/.xinitrc (use vi to create this file).

Snapshot on August 14, 2019

Changes:

• Adopted own package manager
• Fully integrated with busybox
• Removed ports for s390x, PowerPC and armv6l.
• Using busybox init + runit + own initscripts
• Ported some useful OpenBSD utilities: apply, pr, what, who and doas
• Added port for M68K (for M68K-based Macintosh)
• Added X.org, Wayland and Mesa (with libglvnd)
• Added ALSA
• Added XFCE

Misc. changes:

• Main packages updated packages: Linux 5.2.8, musl libc 1.1.23, BusyBox 1.31.0, Binutils 2.32, GCC 9.2.0, LibreSSL 3.0.0, Python 3.7.4 and 2.7.16, Ruby 2.6.3, X.org Server 1.20.5, Wayland 1.17.0, Mesa 19.1.4, GTK+ 3.24.10, Xfce 4.14

THIS RELEASE WAS MADE TO TEST XFCE4. X86_64 ONLY

Snapshot on May 20, 2019

Compiled this release to show changes from tech preview 1 before tech preview 2. Compiled for PPC64 and PPC64LE.

Changes:

• Switched to busybox and OpenRC
• Configured kernel to make this distribution usable
• Support for i486 instead of i686
• Support armv6l instead of armv5tel
• Perl modules have become independent of the main Perl version

Misc. changes:

• Updated core packages: Linux 5.1.3, musl libc 1.1.22, BusyBox 1.30.1, GCC 9.1.0, GDB 8.3, Valgrind 3.15.0, LibreSSL 2.9.1, OpenRC 0.41.2

tech preview 1

After half a year of rewriting, testing and coding. We pleased to announce that januslinux tech preview 1 is RELEASED!

So, what's new?

• The most important update was deprecating chroot build method. Now januslinux can be bootstrapped through cross-compiler. No chroot needed!
• We had to change filesystem layout. It still has merged /usr, but we have "merged /root". Now /root lives in /home/root but we created symlink to /root for compatibility.
• We moved to GNU userland for their "compat features". But we'll switch to sbase and ubase in next release with some "fixed" commands.
• Using mkshas default login shell and /bin/sh for their simplicity and lower resource usage.
• Added support for RISC-V and PowerPC
• Using normal runit with new init scripts.
• New approach to development. All broken packages removed.

Misc. changes:

• Updated core packages: Linux 5.0.4, musl libc 1.1.21, Binutils 2.32, GCC 8.3.0, LibreSSL 2.8.3, Python 3.7.3 and 2.7.16, Ruby 2.6.2, strace 5.0, Valgrind 3.14.0, GDB 8.2.1

Things to do:

• Replace most of GNU userland with suckless
• Provide normal Linux kernel configuration
• ...and so on!

ATTENTION: login as root with no password in live cd. Recommended to run it in virtual machine(eg. QEMU, VirtualBox)

About PGP: keys, instructions and stuff like that will be done later

He comes

181105

Snapshot on 5th November of 2018

180911

Snapshot on 11th September of 2018

180815

Changes:

• Support for BTRFS and XFS
• Fixes
• Package updates

180806

Changes:

• Bug fixes
• mksh by default

Beta 4.1

Changes:

• bugfix release

Beta 4

Changes:

• Moved to chroot toolchain, now it's build order: cross-toolchain -> chroot-toolchain -> final system
• Using hardened toolchain, compiled with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, -fstack-protector-strong and -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now
• GCC configured with default PIE and SSP support
• Binutils configured with PIC and relro support
• The shadow package replaces default busybox utilities
• Using new package manager called npkg
• Xorg, Wayland, Mesa3D, ALSA, SDL are available
• Fixed bugs
• Some utilities such as: GNU diffutils and GNU sed are replacing busybox's utilities

ATTENTION: if you have problems with mesa, please rebuild Linux headers and libtool!