| New about the 6.7 version
- Version 6.7 has been updated from Debian/squeeze with the usual picks from Debian "testing" and "unstable", and uses Kernel 2.6.39.3 and xorg 7.6 for supporting currentmost computer hardware.
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- experimental free Nouveau graphics modules supporting NVidia cards, acellerated graphics via kernel mode settings (KMS),
- OpenOffice -> LibreOffice 3.3.3,
- Chromium 12.0.742.112 Web Browser,
- Optional 64-bit Kernel via boot option "knoppix64", supporting systems with more than 4GB of RAM and chroot to 64-bit installations for system rescue tasks (DVD version only).
- New boot option (example) "bootfrom=/dev/sda1/knoppix-test.iso", for mounting the Knoppix compressed file system from a stored iso file directly.
- Boot option "grub", for starting a bootloader shell in system rescue tasks.
- ADRIANE: Updated to version 1.4 of the non-visual desktop framework, now using cuneiform as engine for text recognition of scanned texts, enhanced support for several cellphone models via gammu (SMS function).
More notes
- Chromium 12.x as default browser (additionally Firefox/Iceweasel 5.0 on the DVD edition): The open source version of the well known "webkit" based browser is especially iseful for small displays and tablets, and very quick in page rendering. In Knoppix, for (maybe exaggerated?) security considerations, active contents and plugins are disabled by default. This can be changed with a mouseclick - per-page in the browsers address bar, and in general in the browsers settings. Because of its proprietary license, there is no "flash plugin" installed in the freely distributable version of Knoppix, but interested individuals can download and install flash easily using the "Settings" -> "Install additional software" menu entry.
- Because installed programs (especially Libreoffice) tend to grow in size with each new version, sadly, we had to remove some packages from the small CD edition in order to still fit within 700MB. These are the kernel headers (which are still present on the DVD edition for compiling third-party kernel modules), the graphical mail client icedove, the game frozen bubble, and some development libraries.
Known bugs in version 6.7.0
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ADRIANE desktop: The keyboard screenreader-navigation via CAPSLOCK key (kbdsniffd) does not start, since the uinput device is now located at a different place in the new kernel/udev.
Workaround: Change the line
uinput=uinput
in /etc/kbdsniffd.conf to:
uinput=../uinput
Afterwards, restart the screen reader: sudo /etc/init.d/adriane-screenreader restart
Also, the graphical screenreader orca does not detect an eventually installed braille device, which can be fixed by
sudo ln /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/brlapi.py /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/orca/
before starting the graphical desktop variant in ADRIANE.
Both problems have been fixed in the ADRIANE CD variant from 7th August 2011. Thanks to Halim Sahin for the quick feedback!
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