14 DAY TRIAL // CRUX, a lightweight and optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users, which is reflected in a straightforward tar.gz-based package system, is now at version 3.1.
It's been more than a year since the release of CRUX 3.0 and nothing too spectacular has happened in the meantime. The developers have upgraded a number of packages and other components, but the rest is pretty much the same.
According to the changelog, a multilib toolchain which includes glibc 2.19.0, gcc 4.8.3 and binutils 2.24 has been added, the Linux kernel has been updated to version Linux 3.12.24 (the latest LTS branch), Xorg 7.7 and xorg-server 1.15.1 have been implemented by default, and udev has been replaced by eudev.
The devs have also explained that “important libraries have been updated to new major versions which are not ABI compatible with the old versions.” They are not recommending users to manually update to CRUX 3.1 via ports because this procedure will break the system.
Also, net-tools and traceroute have been removed form the core collection, the tools last, mesg, wall, and pidof from sysvinit have been replaced by newer versions, and mesa3d now depends on llvm.
Check the official announcement for a complete list of updates and new features. You can download CRUX 3.1 right now from Softpedia. Please keep in mind that the kernel needs to be compiled during the installation and that there is no desktop environment included by default.