14 DAY TRIAL // If you're among the Linux users that like to compile their own kernel and hand-tune every aspect of the system, then you will be happy to hear that the CRUX Linux community has released the next version of its lightweight distribution, CRUX 2.6.
Many packages have received updates, and the included Linux kernel has been brought to version 2.6.30.5 (not exactly current, as the last stable version of the Linux kernel is 2.6.30.6). The toolchain, a very important part of this distribution, as you will be using those tools to build your system, includes glibc 2.10.1, gcc 4.4.1 and binutils 2.19.1. On the graphical side of the desktop, Xorg is now at version 7.4.
In the future, you might see a drop in package sizes, since libarchive now has support for the xz and lzma archiving formats, which, in turn, allows the use of these formats in the ports collection.
Many of the utilities contained in e2fsprogs have been chucked out and replaced with their util-linux-ng counterparts, so you will probably notice the new fsck, findfs, blkid, uuidd, uuidgen utilities and the changed libuuid and libblkid libraries. Also, libusb has been updated to version 1.0, but a compatibility package for 0.1 remains, and rdate has been replaced by openrdate.
If you thought that configuring modprobe through the /etc/modprobe.conf configuration file was cumbersome, you will be glad to know that the recommended way to do that from now on is to create individual .conf files in the /etc/modprobe.d/ folder, hopefully simplifying the module configuration a bit.
Users needing to create advanced disk configurations will be able to do that right before starting the actual install process, because the lvm2 logical volume manager is now included on the CD.
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