Release Candidates :: DSL-2.1RC3



DSL v2.1 Release Candidate 3 is now available in the download area here.

Change Log For DSL v2.1 RC3

1. New mount.lua - Lua GUI disk mount tool.
2. New dMix = Lua GUI sound mixer.
3. New icontool.lua - Lua GUI lists UCI mounts & allows easy deinstall of UCI's.
4. New .xpdfrc - to support direct printing from Xpdf.
5. New links - Lua links download wrapper.
6. New added Thai keyboard support.
7. Update filetool.lua GUI - added NONE option to skip backup/restore
8. Update wordview.lua GUI - added file chooser for *.doc
9. Update System Stats GUI - added more views and better font
10. Update pendrive_usb install scripts - optionally display all sd type devices.
11. Updated extended randisk to use swap only if not using 'toram' option.
12. Updated formula for better use of ram when using 'toram' option.
13. Updated fluxter.bb for new default display in fluxbox.
14. Updated .bash_profile for user 'dsl' at runlevel 3.
15. Updated man - now uses wget/less instead of links.
16. Updated Ted.lnk - missing Anchor
17. Updated scripts for restarting xtdesk icon manager.
18. Updated busybox - new commands, time, dpkg, rpm, rpm2cpio, uuencode and large file support.
19. Updated emelfm - icons would appear even when 'noicons' was choosen.
20. Moved DSL version number from .torsmorc to System Stats

Again this is a list of files that may be in your backup or persistent home that would need to be copied over from etc/skel

1. .xinitrc
2. .jwmrc
3. .fluxbox/menu
4. .fluxbox/fluxter.bb
5. .xtdesktop/Ted.lnk
6. .torsmorc

Please initially test with the base and norestore options.
When reporting bugs please verify that it occurs in the base, i.e., base and norestore options.

Report problems with user contributed extensions in the Community MyDSL extensions section of the board.

Report all others in this thread.

Too many people to thank for their bug reports and suggestions, for this cut. It has been a real community effort. John and I listen to the community and this is how we proceed to try to make DSL better. We thank all of you for your participation.

Direct code contributions (outside John and myself):
Thanks to mikshaw for ucitool.lua
Thanks to cbagger for pendrive display option mod.



And thank you to Clacker for pointing out how to grab a substring in Lua4.
substring = strsub( mystring, strfind(mystring, ""))

...used in dMix.

Bittorrent
http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=1197

i can't download it yet - so give a screenshot of the new functions!

thank you!

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