Version 0.7.8

List of changes for Version 0.7.8[]

(see also fileNEWS in source, and completeSVN-ChangeLog)

FLTK Console[]

(Shai Vaingast)

• New: Select font style and size with menu, store current font in registry.
• New: Setect text with right or left mouse and copy&paste with key Win+C.
• New: "cocon=COLSxROWSxSCROLLBACK" to use console scrollback with keys Win+PageUP, Win+PageDown or mouse weel.
• Disabling console FLTK resize functionality.
• Enabled blinking cursor support.
• New menu option "exit on detach" (quit console after shutting down).
• Redesigned menu to be more inline with today's standard menu layout.
• Workaround for some Vista keyboard drivers bugs where WinKey+C and WinKey+V don't work properly. Now WinKey+Home and WinKey+End is the alternate.

Daemons[]

• Different descriription for file properties, add original filename.

Kernel[]

• Version 2.6.33.5 added.
• Filesystems EXT4 enabled in kernel, GFS2 enabled as module.
• comouse.c: Fix build error, with CONFIG_MOUSE_COOPERATIVE. (Yin Sun)
• Version 2.6.22.18 removed from patches and config. Cleanup patches.

Softlink arch/i386 --> arch/x86 for patches removed.

Buildsystem[]

• Suppress warnings from Python 2.6. (Shai Vaingast)
• Config variable changed from SOURCE_DIR to DOWNLOADS.

Updated libraries and tools[]

• FLTK 1.1.10, fixes problems with Window border frame on Vista.

Notes for upgrading from older versions[]

Upgrading from coLinux 0.7.3 and before[]

• Some dev distries increase eth1, eth2, eth3, ... on every boot. Typicaly have no network, but can see it with "cat /proc/net/dev". As workarrount set an unique MAC address for all network interfaces in config file. Or disable udev.

Debian: Remove all entries from/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules

Seemodifications for Wubi and other distributions.

Upgrading from coLinux 0.6.4 and before[]

• XML config files have been removed. Use thecommand-line syntax in aname=value per line plain text file instead (seecolinux-daemon.txt):

  kernel=vlinux

  mem=32

  cobd0=path\root_fs

  cobd1=path\swap_fs

  eth0=slirp

  root=/dev/cobd0

  ro

• Replace the-c name with"@name" as parameter for colinux-daemon.
• Locate for tool "colinux-xml2cfg", a XML to CFG converter for coLinux onSF orhere
• The file initrd contains no modules. Modules are only in the file vmlinux-modules.tar.gz. The initrd extracts modules over device cofs31 automaticly, if you configure it asinitrd=initrd.gz in config file. After modules are installed, you can remove the initrd from config.

Upgrading from coLinux 0.6.1 and before[]

• Gentoo users need to be careful, Gentoo tends to use devfs when upgrading from 0.6.1 and so block device names change from cobdX to cobd/X and render the image unbootable. For more details and solutions see the 2.6 related information on the Wiki.