lme
FreeBSD Committer
Am Wochenende wurde die Release-Version von NomadBSD 1.2 freigegeben: http://nomadbsd.org/download.html
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 23:55:19 +0200
From: Marcel Kaiser <mk@nomadbsd.org>
To: nomadbsddevs@freelists.org
Subject: [nomadbsddevs] NomadBSD 1.2 released!
We are pleased to announce the release of NomadBSD 1.2! We would like to
thank all the testers who sent us feedback and bug reports.
Changes:
• The base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.0‐p3
• TRIM has been enabled by default.
• A vt(4) color theme has been added.
• The dialog(1) based setup has been replaced by a Qt GUI which sup‐
ports dynamic translation. Currently available translations are
German and Russian.
• In order to reduce the number of implicit package upgrades and pos‐
sible inconsistencies, the pkg(8) default repository has been
changed to "Quarterly".
• A recent copy of the NomadBSD handbooklet has been added to nomad’s
home dir.
• A new option has been added to the boot menu which allows users to
set hw.syscons.disable.
• The kernel tunable vfs.root_mount_always_wait=1 has been added to
/boot/loader.conf to prevent mountroot from mounting the root par‐
tition before the device is available.
• Dynamic creation of configuration files for Intel GPUs has been
added. For GPUs using the legacy i915kms driver, the UXA accelera‐
tion method is used. For newer GPUs SNA is used which fixes perfor‐
mance problems (at least on HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell))
• The backend for compton has been changed to xrender. This fixes in‐
put delay problems with the NVIDIA driver. Further, it makes using
compton with VESA and SCFB possible.
• x11/dmenu has been added which can be started by pressing
Ctrl+Space.
• A bug where the NVIDIA GLX libraries could not be found because of
path changes in the nvdia‐driver‐{304,340,390} packages has been
fixed.
• A bug where executing pkg install/ delete lead to overwriting the
library path to the NVIDIA libraries has been fixed.
• A dialog(1) menu has been added to the initgfx script which allows
the user to choose between auto detection and a non‐accelerated
graphics driver.
• The detection of network devices has been improved.
• A script with a Qt5 frontend for installing NomadBSD on a hard disk
has been added.
• Support for building 32bit images has been added.
• The user interface has been slightly changed.
• Support for the local keymap when entering the geli password has
been added.
• Support for resetting NomadBSD has been added. Users can execute
/usr/libexec/nomad/nomad_setup reset
in single user mode to bring NomadBSD back to its initial
state.
• Localized XDG standard dirs have been added.
• The swap partition has been removed.
• linux_base has been removed.
• Several small improvements and bugfixes.