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@v-fox v-fox released this 24 Mar 06:18
· 61 commits to master since this release

Notable changes:

  • R/W support / persistency is enabled:
    • EXT4 partition is created out of redundant space of your R/W medium
  • transition to openSUSE Tumbleweed;
    • repository list is overhauled to give priority to the «release» ones
  • dropping 2GB limit and not considering anything less than 4GB:
    • keeping file persistency enabled;
    • keeping documentation and locales;
    • keeping basic devel packages since OpenCL wants half of them anyway;
    • not shunning away from 32bit packages anymore
  • font selection is completely overhauled in favour of Google Noto collection;
    • Terminus font is used by default in KMS&GUI terminals;
    • DejaVu-based Hack font is used in text editors;
    • DejaVu font family is still generally used in GUI
  • UI's look is overhauled for darkness without bleakness
  • Mesa is outfitted with Gallium OpenMAX IL, VAAPI & VDPAU implementations
    • which are not used in apps by default due to driver instability
  • support for OpenCL (AMD & Intel)
  • support for high-quality midi playback via fluidsynth
  • support for UPnP for PulseAudio
  • support for motion-based (vapoursynth-mvtools) frame interpolation
    • and neural network (nnedi3) scaling in mpv
  • addition of a bunch of YaST modules including Docker support
  • addition of wine with native Gallium DirectX 9 support
  • addition of more working gaming emulators:
    • DOSBox for IBM© PC/DOS
    • OpenMSX for MSX®
    • PPSSPP for Sony© PSP®
    • PCSX-R for Sony© PlayStation®
    • PCSX 2 for Sony© PlayStation® 2
    • Dolphin-Emu for Nintendo© Gamecube® & Wii®
    • Desmume for Nintendo© DS®
    • Mupen64Plus for Nintendo© N64®
    • Yabause for Sega© Saturn®
  • addition of rEFInd (graphical probing EFI bootloader)
  • addition of K3B disk burner just for the hell of it
  • addition of Marble, the map viewer
  • addition of Skype and skyperious (Skype data viewer)
  • addition of Steam installer/launcher and its crutch-wrapper
  • addition of ZFS support (disabled by default and may be removed at any time)
  • addition of volatility (forensic tool for RAM analysis)
  • return of PeaZip (until p7zip GUI decides to compile)
  • removal of Bumblebee/Primus/VirtualGL/bbswitch in favour of PRIME/DRI3
  • removal of conky due to its low practicality from out-of-the-box
  • removal of toxic because we don't try to support console messaging
  • removal of live-{fat-stick,usb-gui} because of low usefulness for our case
  • replacement of bomi with xt7-player-mpv
  • replacement of dropped kernel-desktop with our kernel-HSF
    • (tuned for low latency and packing almost all in-kernel drivers)
  • replacement of LMT/pm-profiler/pm-utils with tuned/systemtap/powertop
  • replacement of tc-play with veracrypt
  • replacement of uTox with qTox
  • commencing usage of multiple dnscrypt instances
  • systemd's automatic userland coredumps are forbidden by default
  • Firefox and TB are unbranded in hopes to disable mandatory signing;
    • mozilla-kde4-integration is removed, kde4 hacks are disabled
  • general package updates and fixes