Greetings!
October seems to be our month, as the previous stable release was launched just shy of 1 year ago. Today, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Redcore Linux Hardened 2201 (codename Rastaban) stable. This cycle had ups and downs, but at the end of it, we have the best release to date, and a very up to date one. Redcore Linux has been a rolling release distribution from the very beginning, but it used to lag behing Gentoo Linux by a few, usually 5 to 7, days. At times the lag was considerably longer, due to time constraints on my part (my bad, I have a dissertation to write). But, the old, fluctuating pattern is gone. Starting mid-July, I implemented some changes, and now Redcore Linux resyncs itself with Gentoo Linux every 6 hours. Let's see what's new!
Changelog :
- resync with Gentoo Linux' testing tree as of 05.10.2022
- linux headers 5.19, glibc 2.35, gcc 12.2.0, binutils 2.39 && llvm 14.0.6 based toolchain
- mesa 12.2.0, Xorg 21.1.4, Xwayland 21.1.3, libdrm 2.4.113 based graphics stack
- alsa 1.2.7.2, pulseaudio 16.1, gstreamer 1.20.3 based sound stack
- linux LTS kernel 5.15.71 as default (6.0 didn't make it in time, sorry)
- KDE Plasma 5.25.5, KDE Gear 22.08.1, KDE Frameworks 5.98.0
- all web browsers updated to their latest upstream release : firefox 105.0.2, google-chrome && chromium 106.0.5249.91, opera 90.0.4480.84, vivaldi 5.4.2753.51, microsoft-edge 106.0.1370.34
- mq-deadline is the default IO scheduler for SATA and NVME SSD's
- bfq is the default IO scheduler for SATA HDD's
- esync works out of the box
- timeshift is now preinstalled :)
- bugfix : the installer no longer needs a modprobe ext4 in order to work, in some rare and weird cases
- bugfix : the installer no longer allows empty passwords, rendering the installed system unusable
- bugfix : sisyphus no longer gets stuck when the dependency list is too large
- bugfix : discover's flatpak backend no longer takes ages to load
- bugfix : due to user request wpa_supplicant now supports less secure algorithms (WEP, WPS, TKIP), (If is a bug people rely on, is not a bug, is a feature (Linus Torvalds, 2014))
Known issues :
- no matter the selected installation language, installed system seems to always end up being in english (regression, needs more investigation)
- no virtualbox integration of any kind
