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author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2006-01-31 11:41:44 +0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2006-01-31 11:41:44 +0000 |
commit | 082d8e67967f8dc4b7a1c23073b67690ef716430 (patch) | |
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* Release notes.
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.xml b/doc/release-notes.xml index 5a413abe6b7..736497acc7f 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/release-notes.xml @@ -16,10 +16,82 @@ Nixpkgs. Among the more notable are:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>Distribution files have been moved to <ulink - url="http://nix.cs.uu.nl" />).</para></listitem> + url="http://nix.cs.uu.nl" />.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The C library on Linux, Glibc, has been updated to + version 2.3.6.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The default compiler is now GCC 3.4.5. GCC 4.0.2 is + also available.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The old, unofficial Xlibs has been replaced by the + official modularised X11 distribution from X.org, i.e., X11R7.0. + X11R7.0 consists of 287 (!) packages, all of which are in Nixpkgs + though not all have been tested. It is now possible to build a + working X server. We use a fully Nixified X server on + NixOS.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The Sun JDK 5 has been purified, i.e., it doesn’t + require any non-Nix components such as + <filename>/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>. This means that Java + applications such as Eclipse and Azureus can run on + NixOS.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Hardware-accelerated OpenGL support, used by games + like Quake 3 (which is now built from source).</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Improved support for FreeBSD on + x86.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Improved Haskell support; e.g., the GHC build is now + pure.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Some support for cross-compilation: cross-compiling + builds of GCC and Binutils, and cross-compiled builds of the C + library uClibc.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Notable new packages: + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem><para>teTeX, including support for building LaTeX + documents using Nix (with automatic dependency + determination).</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Ruby.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>System-level packages to support NixOS, + e.g. Grub, GNU parted and so on.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para><literal>ecj</literal>, the Eclipse Compiler for + Java, so we finally have a freely distributable compiler that + supports Java 5.0.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para><literal>php</literal>.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The GIMP.</para></listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> +<para>The following people contributed to this release: + + Andres Löh, + Armijn Hemel, + Bogdan Dumitriu, + Christof Douma, + Eelco Dolstra, + Eelco Visser, + Mart Kolthof, + Martin Bravenboer, + Rob Vermaas and + Roy van den Broek. + +</para> + </section> |