[indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

[Glynn Foster]

On 20/04/2009, at 7:23 PM, Lurie wrote:

> * Crossbow - Network Virtualization and Resource Management
> * Volo - Low Latency Socket Framework
> * Labeled branded zones
> * Event-based cpu power management + deep C state support for newer  
> processors
> * "Fast reboot" feature

We had Fast Reboot for 2008.11 - though now enabled by default I think.

> * Fast clean shutdown/restart
> * asprintf/vasprintf (for devs...)
> * A lot of new hardware supported (wireless, 10gbit, etc..),  
> including contributed drivers for L1/L2 thanks to Masa Murayama http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
> * New ksh93, zsh, gnome, pidgin, etc.. + lots of new packages

The GNOME version hasn't really changed, unless you count the micro  
changes picked up from the community (though a little less exciting).

> * iSCSI boot support
> * Working sdcard reader on Lenovo notebooks (didn't work in 2008.11)
> * Xorg 1.5.3
> * One cd with all the localizations (thanks to LZMA support in lofi)
> * Improved livecd boot/install improvements (thanks to Jurgen)
>
> Hopefully some of that will prove useful :)

Yes, thank you! Some were already on my list, but nice to see what  
people are interested in :)


Glynn