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- 2005-06-27 v1.3.5a
- - a few network tools were added: bing,fping,iperf(2),ipv6calc,netio
- - Replaced nano-tiny with nano.
- - the not-anymore-working axyftp (??) was replaced with gftp (better anyway).
- - the browser links-hacked was replaced with a patched version of dillo
- which is much smaller and uses the system fonts.
- (Here we have a graphical browser with frames, tabs, SSL, i18n)
- in about 500k!)
- - lftp was removed (quite big; please complain if you need it).
- - pppdcapiplugin was removed (makes no sense wihtout the CAPI drivers).
- - clamav and a few drivers (e.g. unionfs,ndiswrapper) have been updated.
- - usb-install now uses extlinux as boot loader and should thus work again
- (grub has a problem with kernel 2.6 and USB devices).
- - boot options for giving proxy settings were added.
- These can also be set with a little script (proxyconf) and
- affect various programs (wget,dillo,gftp,freshclam,firefox).
- - mount.app (device icon app) now starts an mc on the mount point
- when double-clicking a device icon.
- - firefox doesn't start as root anymore.
- - the portugese keyboard setting was added
- - the virus database for clamav was updated to the latest version.
- 2005-05-31 v1.3.5
- - This is a major new release
- - Updated to linux kernel 2.6.11.6!
- Additionally most of those fancy drivers for common WLAN cards have
- been added: hostap,ipw2x00,madwifi,orinoco, RaLink and the ndiswrapper.
- (Ye for some of them you certainly need additional firwware.)
- - INSERT is now based on Knoppix 3.8.2 using UnionFS!
- This simplifies the boot process and makes the whole
- filesystem writable (modifications go to /ramdisk).
- - INSERT now uses the KDrive X-servers. These are very small
- albeit fully featured (for our purpose at least).
- It boots into 1024x768 with 16 bit color depth and PS/2 mouse
- per default. Other setups can be configured with xsetup.sh.
- - there is a known issue with releasing the CD and opening the CD tray
- during the halt process - this will be addressed soon.
- - Please send bug reports and/or suggestions!
- - lvm10 was replaced with lvm2
- - testdisk (5.7) now comes with ReiserFS support
- - loads of packages were updated!
- - the ftape drivers were removed. Does anybody need those nowadays?
- - the etherboot functionality of insert-remote is disabled
- (floppy image is too big)
- - cfdisk-utf8 was removed
- - new programs: nmblookup, smbclient
- - new packages: wpasupplicant,pppdcapiplugin,mtoolsfm
- - the virus database for clamav was updated to the latest version.
- 2005-02-18 v1.2.18
- - No major rework was done.
- - INSERT now comes with a rather simple script (usb-install)
- to prepare a USB-Stick and install onto it.
- It hopefully will boot on most USB-boot-capable systems
- since it uses grub as the boot loader (very flexible).
- Please give feedback on this new feature!
- - INSERT should now be usable by blind people.
- Given the boot Option 'blind' and 'brltty=type,port,table'
- the control program for braille terminals is started
- instead of X. Please also give feedback on this one.
- - Among the updated packages are:
- avscan, bash_completion, bashburn, cdrecord, clamav, curl,
- dd_rescue, fakeroot, file, jfsutils, hdparm, mdadm, mkisofs,
- mtr-tiny, netpipe-tcp, ntfsprogs, rkhunter, strace, testdisk,
- udpcast, wget, wireless-tools
- - Some tools were added:
- calcoo (desktop calculator), fsck.reiserfs and debugreiserfs
- (from the reiserfsprogs package), lftp (sophisticated command
- line FTP client), ddrescue (supposed to be better than dd_rescue),
- pv (speed measuring pipe), rdesktop (connect to MS terminal
- services)
- - ftp was replaced with lukemftp
- - memtest was replaced with memtest86+
- - the 'quiet' boot option was removed, making kernel boot messages
- visible, 'noapic' was added to make booting more robust.
- (When still experiencing problems, try 'acpi=off' or 'nodma'.)
- - the virus database for clamav was updated to the latest version.
- 2004-12-17 v1.2.17
- - this is a maintainance release. Some major topis were
- postponed (e.g. booting from USB, removal of the X-servers
- in favour of the KDrive servers).
- - many packages were updated: most notably the virus scanner
- clamav and it's GUI avscan.
- - some nice tools were added:
- curl,fakeroot,screen,smartmontools,sniffit,ncurses-hexedit.
- - some files had to be removed. Please give feedback, if something
- important is missing.
- - the virus database for clamav was updated to the latest version.
- 2004-10-13 v1.2.16
- - the kernel with modules was updated to 2.4.27.
- Along with the additional WLAN modules from Knoppix 3.6
- and ndiswrapper this brings much better support for
- wireless connections.
- - added packages/programs: lrzsz,udpcast,openvpn(!)
- - re-added cfdisk-utf8.
- - replaced wmapm with wmacpi.
- - updated packages/programs: dvd+rw-tools, hdparm, jfsutils,
- (x)nmap, p0f, parted, rkhunter, smbmount, wavemon, xfsprogs.
- - bugfix: the automatic network configuration was somewhat
- broken - especially regarding wireless adapters
- This should be fixed now.
- - bugfix: memtest (boot option) works again.
- - a tiny buggy in the easter egg is fixed:)
- - a few X driver and extension modules were removed.
- Please complain if you miss something.
- - the virus database for clamav was updated to the latest version.
- 2004-09-09 v1.2.15
- - ms-sys was added. With ms-sys you can write a Microsoft
- compatible boot record to floppy or hard disk.
- - magicrescue was added. This is a tool to recover certain
- file types from defective partitions or if they have
- been deleted.
- - a mkfloppy script was added again. It creates two
- floppy disks from which it is possible to boot INSERT.
- - added nmapfe/xnmap, the GTK+ frontend to nmap.
- - added a Tools folder outside the compressed loop file system,
- which contains an Unzipper (unzip.exe) and a Windows SSH client
- (putty.zip) for now (maybe more to come).
- - thanks a lot to Charles Appel for his bugfixes and suggestions
- (mainly concerning mkpersistenthome, insert-remote and
- RAM-consumption).
- - a minor bug in the hardware detection layer was fixed.
- - a minor bug with iptables was fixed.
- - updated loads of packages. See the application list on the
- homepage for details.
- - PCI-IDs, USB-IDs and the bash_completion were updated.
- - the virus database for clamav was updated to the latest version.
- 2004-08-04 v1.2.14 (The one-year-anniversary release)
- - INSERT-Remote , a network boot server, was added.
- It's a slightly modified version of knoppix-terminalserver
- which allows to boot machines over the net. So you don't
- even need a CD-ROM or DVD-drive to run INSERT!
- - bugfix: libpcap0.8 was missing (for tcpdump).
- - the following packages/programs were updated:
- fwlogwatch, clamav, avscan, smbmount, rkhunter.
- - p0f - a passive OS fingerprinting tool - was added.
- - the ability to create boot floppies (mkfloppy.bat and mkfloppy.sh
- was removed. (The files didn't fit on a floppy anymore
- This should be re-added asap.)
- - a bug with the 'toram' boot option was fixed. Now all files
- are being copied to the ram disk.
- - to save space the cloop is now compressed with best compression
- to keep the size of the image under 50MB (50x1024x1024 bytes).
- - the virus database for clamav was updated to the latest version
- (you guessed it, didn't you:))
- 2004-06-24 v1.2.13 (The summer release)
- - updated kernel version to 2.4.26!
- - updated system boot scripts and hardware detection
- to the latest versions from KNOPPIX v3.4!
- - these two together leave us with much better hardware support.
- and detection (e.g. more SCSI drivers plus USB and Firewire drivers
- in the miniroot: boot from external drives).
- - the version number jumped a bit forward. That's because lots of
- major improvements/updates have been made, and it matches
- (well, halfway:)) the new kernel version so nicely.
- - the long-standing bug with the ISO file system on the CD not being
- readable from windows OS was fixed.
- - the kernel was patched to use the new NTFS driver from linux-ntfs.
- This amounts to much better performance and to stable, yet limited
- write support (apart from captive).
- - Jee, I always thought parted was included. Well, now it is.
- Same applies for acl.
- - it is now possible to save the INSERT-configuration (saveconfig) or
- the contents of the INSERT user's home (mkpersistenthome) to a
- directory aka to a mounted device (e.g. USB-stick).
- - added shfs which makes it possible to mount remote file systems via SSH.
- Simply use shfsmount. (Similar things can be done with lufs as well,
- but this one comes with some nice and decent features.)
- - added foremost (on request); a forensics tools to recover certain
- file types from an image or directly from disk.
- - added support for the Belgian keyboard (as requested).
- - clamav was updated to the much improved version 0.73.
- - replaced fdisk-udeb with cfdisk.
- - added unrar.
- - removed (unused) wmbutton and module-init-tools.
- - moved from wmifs to wmnd for displaying the network bandwith usage.
- - added mount.app. Mounting by clicking is now possible:)
- - removed the Alcatel Speedtouch driver.
- - most of the other packages were updated!!
- - the virus database for clamav was updated to the latest version.
- 2004-04-22 v1.2.8 (The birthday release)
- - ettercap was added (on request).
- - fwlogwatch was added (Boris' baby:)
- - Support for mounting SMB filesystems was added (smbmount).
- Now it is possible to mount MS Windows or Samba shares,
- e.g. to backup data to or fro.
- - the French and Swiss keyboard layouts were added and should work.
- - huh, just noticed that we don't have a telnet client - now we have one.
- - the rootkit hunter was updated and should finally work.
- (corrects a problem with the read-only filesystem.)
- - clamav was updated and now also detecs MS Office VBA macro viruses.
- - the ntfsutils were updated.
- - the virus database for clamav was updated to the latest version.
- 2004-04-04 v1.2.7
- - thanks to the Multivalent PDF Tools it was possible to compress our
- included information material to about half its size! This made room for:
- - avscan, a graphical frontend for the virus scanner clamav (was added),
- which should make it a bit easier for newbies to scan for viruses and
- which also generally is a quite-nice-to-have,
- This makes INSERT probably the first distribution providing a free,
- and easy to use virus scanner with a GUI.
- (Thanks go to Tara from WolfPack Entertainment.)
- - BashBurn and iftop and the full bash-programmable-completion were added.
- - The Rootkit Hunter (www.rootkit.nl) was added.
- - memtest was updated
- - ssh-agent is now started at boot time as suggested
- - The virus database for clamav was updated to the latest version.
- 2004-03-22 v1.2.6
- - re-added xkbcomp after it has accidentally been
- removed in the last version, which caused some rather
- important characters not to appear in X (e.b.: |,@).
- - updated the virus database for clamav to the latest version
- 2004-03-18 v1.2.5
- - added boot time configuration for more keyboard layouts on request (e.g. dk,es)
- - added mc (Midnight Commander) on request
- - some minor bugfixes
- - updated the virus database for clamav to the latest version
- - on suggestion the X-server is no longer listening on TCP
- - made a few minor improvements to the UI
- (e.g. scroll buffer and scroll bar in rxvt)
- - switched to past tense in the changelog
- 2004-03-03 v1.2.4
- - various packages have been updated to their latest versions:
- cdrecord,chkrootkit,clamav,e2fsprogs,jfstools,mdadm,mkisofs,xfsprogs
- - the dvd+rw-tools package has been added
- - the virus database for clamav has been updated to the latest version
- - the catchFirebird script was replaced by huntFirefox. It downloads
- version 0.8 of firefox
- - linuxrc and the autoconfiguration script have been updated to correspond
- to the version of the latest Knoppix-scripts (e.g. DMA moved to linuxrc)
- - the missing man pages for reiserfsprogs have been added
- - a few dead links have been removed
- - {finally} autoejecting of the CD at halt time works!
- 2004-02-22 v1.2.3
- - the virus database for clamav has been updated to the latest version
- 2004-02-13 v1.2.2
- (Friday) - the floppy boot image has been removed; instead, a small script
- and syslinux provide the functionality to generate the boot disk
- from the files already on the CD.
- - the latest virus database for clamav has been added
- - some minor corrections in the captive docu page have been made
- - wmnet has been removed
- 2004-01-30 v1.2.1
- - some minor improvements, corrections and bugfixes have been made.
- 2004-01-27 v1.2
- This version, which also has been mass-replicated, features many major
- improvements, the most important of which are:
- - freshly built upon/from the newest available version V3.3-031119 of KNOPPIX,
- which brings us linux kernel 2.4.22-xfs and the ability to copy the installation
- to RAM or to HD during boot time (free your optical drive:)
- - full read-WRITE-support on NTFS-partitions using captive!
- With captive and two files from your Windows(tm)-installation fairly stable
- support for write access to NTFS partitions is being achieved.
- - The drivers and modules for LVM-support have been added allowing access to
- logical volumes created with LVM.
- - The missing floppy boot image has been added (coyp to floppy if your CD-ROM
- doesn't boot).
- - the latest version of nmap has been added. This unfortunately kicked lcrzoex
- out of the boat (will try to readd it later).
- - Man pages have been added leading to much increased comfort for those who
- don't know the 2000 options and parameters of xxxx from memory.
- 2003-09-18 v1.02
- - moved to the boot loader isolinux. This gives us the ability to include
- additional boot options (boot disks) and eliminates the limitation of
- the boot disk size.
- - added memtest86 as a boot loader option (via f2 page)
- - added the packages cpio and dialog (absence of the latter caused
- netcardconfig to fail)
- - upgraded the web browser links to version 030709
- - updated the catchFirebird script to download firebird 0.6.1
- 2003-08-06 v1.01
- - added an english version/iso. This affects the keyboard layout and the help texts.
- - removed locales completely. This leaves room for future additions.
- - added apmd and wmapm
- - fixed kismet config (was not writable)
- - fixed some minor bugs and inconsistencies
- 2003-08-04 initital freshmeat announcement
- - added /etc/kismet
- - changed locale to C, removed /usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale
- - change menu entry of pppoeconf (sudo)
- 2003-08-01 v1.0
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