Sounder CD 7

[Colin Watson]

Sounder CD 7 is ready:

  http://ftp.no-name-yet.com/cdimage/sounder-test/7/
  rsync://ftp.no-name-yet.com/cdimage/sounder-test/7/

See http://wiki.no-name-yet.com/WartyWarthog/Archive for access
instructions. I recommend rsync if possible, as you can then download
future images based on this one to save bandwidth.

New in this release:

  * The installer has an optional feature to copy all the packages to
    the hard disk before installing Base and Desktop: it's not used by
    default yet, but please boot with
    'anna/choose_modules=archive-copier' to try it, and send your
    feedback. Eventually the general idea is that you won't have to use
    the CD at all after the first reboot, but not all the integration
    work has been done yet so you'll still have to reinsert the CD after
    rebooting to stop base-config complaining.

  * If you tell the partitioner to erase the entire disk, it'll now skip
    the scary detail page and go straight to the summary and
    confirmation.

  * The Base installation stage now tells you what it's doing throughout
    rather than sitting with the progress bar at 68% for ages.

  * The root password is now disabled by default, and the installer
    won't ask you to set it; instead, the initially-created user is
    added to sudoers and you'll be allowed into single-user mode without
    entering a password. (If you set a root password using 'sudo passwd
    root', single-user mode will go back to asking you for a password.)

  * The CD now includes a few extra packages that aren't installed by
    default. See http://wiki.no-name-yet.com/WartyWarthog/ShipSeed for
    the list.

  * The desktop guys have done quite a bit of work, which I confess to
    not being familiar with. I believe they'd like testing of the trash
    applet, which is a new feature.

  * Following dpkg fixes and an archive flush/rebuild, amd64 is back,
    although there's still one uninstallable package in Desktop.

  * Thom tells me that we now have Totally Rad Laptop Support.

If you're upgrading, you may want to try with a freshly created user
account to pick up changes to the default desktop.

Bug reports should go here:

  https://bugzilla.no-name-yet.com/

Enjoy,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson at flatline.org.uk]
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