5.8 is out

[Kai Hendry]

If you are on twitter you would have seen something like
http://twitter.com/webconverger/status/6639155800 fly past.

http://webconverger.org/blog/entry/5.8_release_notes/

Enjoy and please let me know about any problems not listed on
http://webconverger.org/todo/


Happy holidays!

[bittin]

awesome work :)

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[Kai Hendry]

2009/12/14 bittin <plattane...@gmail.com>:
> awesome work :)

Have you tried it? I am a little worried about a ath5k issue I saw on
my test machine EEEPC900 with 5.8.

Waiting to hear from people if 5.8 really works for them. :-)

[GMF]

The new version works really fine on i686 PCs.

Unfortunately 4 of my running webconverger Kiosk-PCs can not boot
this version. :-(
3 Kiosk-PCs have Geode-CPUs and the other one is a P-450 machine.

Your hardware requirements doesn´t really fit for me. Pentium 3s with
128MB of RAM can not show websites with flash content or a live-
ticker.

On 14 Dez., 12:55, Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com> wrote:
> 2009/12/14 bittin <plattanemobar...@gmail.com>:

[bittin]

on that hardware i whould run http://www.kioskcd.com/

[Kai Hendry]

http://www.kioskcd.com/ is using a dangerously out of date Firefox 1.x browser.

I only want to switch to i686 if people can discern the speed
difference. I find it quite hard tbh.

I'll reset the daily builds back to 486 kernels.

One way I hope to compete with Chrome OS, is work on more hardware.
Sticking with 486 is an obvious way to do that.


Kind regards,

[GMF]

> I'll reset the daily builds back to 486 kernels.

Thanks for that. :-)

May be next year I´m getting complete new hardware for all
webconverger Kiosk-PCs.

> I only want to switch to i686 if people can discern the speed
> difference. I find it quite hard tbh.

Checking this one.


On 14 Dez., 21:39, Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com> wrote:
> http://www.kioskcd.com/is using a dangerously out of date Firefox 1.x browser.

[Kai Hendry]

2009/12/15 GMF <g...@bitchcop.de>:

>> I'll reset the daily builds back to 486 kernels.
> Thanks for that. :-)

The failure for 686 to boot on your machines could be down to grub.
Could you please retest using a syslinux based Webconverger? Like the
USB image?

I'm set to release 5.9 which has grub removed from the ISO version.
The GNU folks have sadly completely screwed up with grub2, so its time
to jump ship.

[GMF]

>The failure for 686 to boot on your machines could be down to grub.
>Could you please retest using a syslinux based Webconverger? Like the
>USB image?

Hummm.
I only tried the USB image. Webconverger booted with some errors, but
didn´t completely start.
While time running out during my test I couldn´t really figure out
where webconverger stops. So I have no idea why this happens.

>I only want to switch to i686 if people can discern the speed
>difference.

My testPC (P4 3,0GHz 2GB RAM) had only about 1.5s difference between
5.7 and 5.8. Both booting from the original USB image.

>I'm set to release 5.9 which has grub removed from the ISO version.
>The GNU folks have sadly completely screwed up with grub2, so its time
>to jump ship.

A very wise decision. This grub2 thing is really not made for everyone/
everything.

[Kai Hendry]

2009/12/29 GMF <g...@bitchcop.de>:

> I only tried the USB image. Webconverger booted with some errors, but
> didn´t completely start.
> While time running out during my test I couldn´t really figure out
> where webconverger stops. So I have no idea why this happens.

You should try debug mode and remove all the splash options so you can
see the console and where it stops. You can also try change the user,
that will halt autologin.

> My testPC (P4 3,0GHz 2GB RAM) had only about 1.5s difference between
> 5.7 and 5.8. Both booting from the original USB image.

Thank you for running the test.

> A very wise decision. This grub2 thing is really not made for everyone/
> everything.

I thought that was the problem with grub2. ;) Completely over
engineered. grub2 seems like a pretty full featured unix that you get
booted into, before you boot into Linux.

I assume it's some evil plan to validate "GNU/Linux".

[GMF]

> You should try debug mode and remove all the splash options so you can
> see the console and where it stops. You can also try change the user,
> that will halt autologin.

OK. I will try that in January.

> I thought that was the problem with grub2. ;) Completely over
> engineered. grub2 seems like a pretty full featured unix that you get
> booted into, before you boot into Linux.
>
> I assume it's some evil plan to validate "GNU/Linux".

Full ack. ;)