News

04-Aug-2018

This new release of the Fiwix Installation CDROM comes with new packages ported and improves a lot the UNIX-like experience with full support of the System V init scripts.

The following is the list of the new packages ported with their binaries installed:

libiconv-1.15:

• /usr/bin/iconv
• /usr/lib/libcharset.a
• /usr/lib/libiconv.a

mingetty-1.08:

• /sbin/mingetty

ncompress-4.2.4.4:

• /usr/bin/compress
• /usr/bin/uncompress linked to /usr/bin/compress

procps-3.2.8:

• /bin/ps
• /usr/bin/uptime
• /usr/bin/tload
• /usr/bin/free
• /usr/bin/w
• /usr/bin/top
• /usr/bin/vmstat
• /usr/bin/watch
• /usr/bin/pwdx

symlinks-1.4.3:

• /usr/bin/symlinks

sysvinit-2.84:

• /bin/pidof linked to /sbin/killall5
• /sbin/init
• /sbin/halt
• /sbin/shutdown
• /sbin/runlevel
• /sbin/killall5
• /sbin/reboot linked to halt
• /sbin/poweroff linked to halt
• /sbin/telinit linked to init
• /usr/bin/last
• /usr/bin/mesg
• /usr/bin/utmpdump
• /usr/bin/wall

unzip-6.0:

• /usr/bin/unzip
• /usr/bin/funzip
• /usr/bin/unzipsfx
• /usr/bin/zipinfo linked to /usr/bin/unzip

util-linux-ng-2.17:

• /bin/login
• /sbin/cfdisk
• /sbin/fdisk
• /sbin/findfs
• /sbin/fsck.minix
• /sbin/mkfs.minix
• /sbin/mkswap
• /sbin/sfdisk
• /sbin/wipefs
• /usr/bin/cal
• /usr/bin/col
• /usr/bin/colcrt
• /usr/bin/colrm
• /usr/bin/column
• /usr/bin/ddate
• /usr/bin/flock
• /usr/bin/getopt
• /usr/bin/hexdump
• /usr/bin/isosize
• /usr/bin/look
• /usr/bin/mcookie
• /usr/bin/namei
• /usr/bin/pg
• /usr/bin/rename
• /usr/bin/rev
• /usr/bin/script
• /usr/bin/scriptreplay
• /usr/bin/setsid
• /usr/bin/tailf
• /usr/bin/ul
• /usr/bin/whereis
• /usr/sbin/readprofile

zip-3.0:

• /usr/bin/zip
• /usr/bin/zipcloak
• /usr/bin/zipnote
• /usr/bin/zipsplit

It also comes with libxcrypt-4.0.1 that serves as the -lcrypt library necessary to compile some basic tools.

This new CDROM comes with the latest kernel version which includes the following changes:

1.0.1 - 04-Aug-2018
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- Added a basic implementation of a Pseudo-Random Number Generator using the
  character devices /dev/random and /dev/urandom.
- Improved the mechanism in procfs_dir_readdir() to fix a memory corruption bug.
- Fixed a bug in procfs_dir_readdir() that prevented from reading correctly the
  entire procfs root directory.
- Fixed a bug in iso9660_dir_readdir() that prevented from reading correctly any
  directory.
- Fixed to show the complete pathname in the argv[0] of the init process.
- Fixed to protect INIT process from unexpected signals.