[tinysofa-announce] [announce] tinysofa enterprise server 1.0-U1

[Omar Kilani]

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                    tinysofa release announcement

                   tinysofa enterprise server 1.0-U1

                "imagine a world full of tiny sofas..."

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The summation of what could only be described as an amazingly expedient
development process, tinysofa enterprise server 1.0-U1 (Update 1) is now
generally available.

This release is what every server distribution should be; extremely
polished, meticulously crafted, well tested, and secure out of the box.
1.0-U1 is the first tinysofa enterprise server release since the inception
of the subversion source control management system. subversion has allowed
the tinysofa development team to work around the clock, from all over the
globe to bring you what is quite possibly the fastest, most stable, secure
enterprise grade operating system freely available today.

What's New?
===========

Notable changes since tinysofa enterprise server 1.0:

* Kernel 2.4.26 (2.4.27-pre2, libata + ata_piix; full SATA support)
* Samba 3.0.4
* MySQL 4.0.20
* SWUP 2.4.5
* Kudzu 1.1.22, initscripts 7.31.9, grub 0.94 (for Linux kernel 2.6 use.)
* The IBM stack protector is now enabled by default, and has been used to
  compile the complete distribution.
* All packages have been updated to the latest stable upstream versions.

Development process improvements since tinysofa enterprise server 1.0:

* subversion source control management system (1698 revisions since 1.0)
* All packages are now built in a chroot, as non-root.
* All packages have proper build requirements.
* All packages have undergone a permissions audit.
* General package cleanup and rationalisation.

Getting tinysofa enterprise server 1.0-U1
=========================================

tinysofa may be downloaded using various protocols from:

* http://www.tinysofa.org/download/

The tinysofa website, and means of support, communication and so forth can
be found at:

* http://www.tinysofa.org/

Upgrading from tinysofa enterprise server 1.0
=============================================

SWUP
----

A bug in the version of SWUP included in 1.0 prevents an automatic upgrade
to 1.0-U1. Users of 1.0 should issue the following command:

swup --upgrade swup-libs

prior to doing a swup --upgrade.

anaconda
--------

The anaconda installer can be used to upgrade all packages on 1.0 whilst
leaving all configuration intact. To upgrade your system using anaconda,
insert the tinysofa enterprise server 1.0-U1 CD into your CDROM drive, enter
the anaconda installation program, and select "Upgrade Existing System" on
the "Installation Type" screen, and follow the prompts.

Thanks
======

The tinysofa development team would like to thank all the users who have
filled the mailing lists with encouraging appraisal of tinysofa. Your
support means a lot to us, and plays a huge role in our dedication to
providing you the with best enterprise grade server operating system freely
available today.

The tinysofa development team
=============================

tinysofa is brought to you by:

Omar Kilani     -- Sydney, NSW, Australia    -- <omar at tinysofa dot org>
Emily Boyd      -- Newcastle, NSW, Australia -- <emily at tinysofa dot org>
Gerald Dachs    -- Germany                   -- <gda at tinysofa dot org>
Goetz Bock      -- Munich, Germany           -- <bg at tinysofa dot org>
Jaakko Heinonen -- Turku, Finland            -- <jh at tinysofa dot org>
Michael Wolf    -- Boston, MA, USA           -- <mw at tinysofa dot org>
Tor Hveem       -- Norway                    -- <torh at tinysofa dot org>