Preview of Webconverger 18

[Kai Hendry]

Tip or trunk is pretty much Webconverger 18 which I aim to release soon:
http://build.webconverger.org/latest.iso

Controversially the proprietary Google talk plugin is included.
However I personally find it unstable. Sometimes it works. Sometimes
it doesn't. It would be great if you told me in the next day or two if
you actually found Google talk plugin useful or it's actually perhaps
an error on my part, integrating the plugin.

Other cool features are:
* New fonts, you shouldn't see a missing unicode glyph again, thanks
to the very wide Droid font coverage
* Arabic & Russian support via Alt+shift
* FF19
* iptables= API

df899c3 Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/Webconverger/webc
dccf9ef Updated flash to 11.2.202.273
0c3e71d Merge pull request #143 from Webconverger/iptables
7d05142 Allow packages to populate /usr/include, though ignore them in git
03134e6 Use cdn.debian.net mirror instead of the http.debian.net which
regularly result in Hash mismatches on the package lists
68b8445 iptables API
3871959 Merge pull request #142 from Webconverger/features
1b8fb15 Remove ttf-dejavu, since it didn't have as good as coverage as
Google's Apache Licensed Droid font.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/fcitx-dev/9HNuLdk_2zQ/jp
f3e179b Manual update Droid fonts from
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/community/ttf-droid/ttf-droid-20121017.tar.xz
since they are almost a year more recent than Debian's
dc60a61 Install Debian packaged fonts-droid 20111207+git-1
http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fonts-droid.html
e4808d4 Integrated google-talkplugin 3.14.17.0-1
f10fa05 Add API option to disable ping
8fbc8f4 Merge branch 'fix115'
7924f13 Updated FF19 langpacks
d3ea2e0 Firefox 19.0 http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/19.0/releasenotes/
692e194 Update initramfs
d6d2206 Move mounting /.git into live-config.sh
2bf18cb Silence git-fs related message in initrd
bfbeb61 Fix indent in git-fs code in initrd
2b691b2 Implement "showprintbutton", closes #140
2225f9e HOTFIX XML issues in langpack's install.rdf
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840884
6e3d2b2 Adobe Flash 11.2.202.270 security update
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-05.html
a72d6a0 Adobe Flash 11.2.202.262 security update
https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-04.html
8fff2f9 Firefox 18.0.2 update
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/18.0.2/releasenotes/


Of course install users are already rocking these new features.

Kind regards,

[Kai Hendry]

Thanks for the feedback. I have retried Google hangouts and it does
work better than initial experiences, but I do find their flow/UX a
bit awkward compared to their simpler video chat before. Btw the
release is delayed a little. I need to do to do a kernel upgrade.

On 7 March 2013 02:18, <dutch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One more thing: I noticed the the MozPlugger that takes care of rendering
> WMP and QuickTime files
> is still at v1.14.5 ,rather than the newer versions like v2.xx
> Just curious if the newer versions don't improve playback quality?

Mozplugger is *just for* launching epdfview, not WMP and Quicktime.
Mozplugger+epdfview might soon be replaced by pdfjs.


We only really support HTML5 video playback going into the future. :-)


Kind regards,

[Kai Hendry]

Hi guys,

I've just pushed the release out:

http://webconverger.org/blog/entry/Webconverger_18.0_release/

Any thoughts or comments, about how to get Webconverger into more
waiting rooms and offices, please let me know. I need to go into sales
mode now.


Enjoy!

[markg....@gmail.com]

It seems that chrome=webcfullscreen is no longer working on the build from the website ?

Could you please look into this ?

Also i am not able to boot the ISO from USB on a ZOTAC Zbox, it's complaining about some microcode that cannot be found.

platform microcode: firmware: agent aborted loading intel-ucode/06-1a-05 (not found?)

Is this easy to fix?

Thanks!

[Kai Hendry]

On 25 March 2013 20:21, <markg....@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that chrome=webcfullscreen is no longer working on the build from
> the website ?

Hi Mark, could you please link to the exact ISO or version? I just
tested `chrome=webcfullscreen` quickly on trunk and it works for me.

> Could you please look into this ?
> Also i am not able to boot the ISO from USB on a ZOTAC Zbox, it's
> complaining about some microcode that cannot be found.
> platform microcode: firmware: agent aborted loading intel-ucode/06-1a-05
> (not found?)
> Is this easy to fix?

Not sure about this. I'm planning to upgrade the kernel again soon, so
maybe you can try again once I've done that.

Kind regards,

[markg....@gmail.com]

Hello Kai,

It seems that it's not working when you install it on a drive.

I tried it using the USB boot and that is working, when you install it and try to boot with webcfullscreen it's not working.

Could you try this and verify that it's broken ?

Thanks!

[Kai Hendry]

On 25 March 2013 23:31, <markg....@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that it's not working when you install it on a drive.

It does..
http://s.natalian.org/2013-03-25/webcfullscreen.png

If you have trouble setting up a persistent configuration, this is
what the subscription service is for.

If you are a subscriber already, please email sales@

> I tried it using the USB boot and that is working, when you install it and
> try to boot with webcfullscreen it's not working.

Could you please take a screenshot of how you do this?

> Could you try this and verify that it's broken ?

chrome=webcfullscreen works for me. I was trying in
http://webconverger.org/debug mode.

Kind regards,

[markg....@gmail.com]

Hello Kai,

I've changed it now and it seems that you don't need the webcnoaddressbar if you are using the webcfullscreen. Sorry for the misunderstanding!

Mark