This prerelease featured a 2.6.10 cko patched kernel, 2.6 kernel headers, NPTL, SELinux, GNOME 2.8, KDE 3.3.2, and resizing of NTFS based partitions during installation. Hardware based translucency is now supported for NVIDIA-based systems.
This release provides the power user with many new
features, encompassing Reiser4 support for the root
filesystem, new non-destructive NTFS resizing, graphical
partitioning, option to use GRUB or LILO bootloaders, a new
clustered control panel, KDE 3.3.0 Final, Linux kernel 2.6.8.1,
default firewall and the OpenOffice.org Office Suite, all
provided on 1 CD. The default "look and feel" has been
enhanced and many bugfixes have been applied, including
PCMCIA support during install and support for PPPoE.
This release included KDE 3.3.0 RC2, a new nVidia
driver (6111), ISAPnP, a UDF patch, bt848 support,
an MPPE patch, and PCMCIA as an install option. The
partition on which to put lilo can now be selected.
Support for a /home partition was added. Hundreds
of packages were added and updated, GLX
improvements were made for non-nVidia cards, and
experimental support for ATI 3D hardware
accelleration was added. There were also many
bugfixes.
This is the final release for Yoper version 2.
Version 2 is a complete redesign of Yoper based
around kernel 2.6 (2.6.7) and apt/rpm support.
Patches to the kernel include Con Kolivas
performance patches, win4lin support, vmware
support, reiserfs4, Secure Shell file system,
CDROM Supermount, and Ndiswrapper. All of the
latest available software packages are also
integrated (gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.3, kde-3.2.3).
