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2005-02-28 Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.7.4
A new version of Feather Linux is out. From the changelog: "Added Rhapsody, didiwiki, xfsprogs, torsmo, gnupod and GRUB; added several Perl modules, including GTK2-Perl; replaced Thunderbird with Sylpheed; replaced zile and nvi with vim; replaced emelfm2 with emelfm; removed Ruby due to space constraints; removed XPaint due to lack of usefulness; updated several packages, including Dillo, MPlayer, ALSA and libc6; updated tmsnc to 0.2.0b; made some small changes to the hard disk install script; made some small changes to rm-dpkg; made Kismet configuration files writable from CD; added a new experimental hard disk install script (based on knoppix-installer by Fabian Franz)." Download: feather-0.7.4.iso (119MB).
2005-02-13 Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.7.3
Feather Linux 0.7.3 has been released. From the changelog: "Added John the Ripper, macchanger, kismet, tcl8.4, qemu, paketto, abcde and screen; updated Monkey to 0.9.0; updated the hard disk install script; updated the usbutils package; upgraded kernel to 2.4.27; updated the quickcam, prism54, ipw2100 and madwifi drivers; updated ndiswrapper to 1.1rc1 and added the airo-mpi driver; updated modutils to 2.4.27; added BCM4400 and BCM5700 drivers; added pencam, a utility to download images from STV0680B-001 chip-based digital cameras; changed boot process so important configuration files can be overwritten by user restore images; added FreeNX; added script to easily create icons (Tools -> Scripts)." Download: feather-0.7.3.iso (122MB).
2005-01-30 Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.7.2
Feather Linux 0.7.2 has been released. From the changelog: "Added mtools, emelfm2, vncdec, elhttp, quagga, and Captive NTFS; updated aircrack; added ion2 - boot with ’knoppix ion2’ to use it; fixed IceWM; fixed wman; added script to download the Distributed.net client; DMA can now be activated with the ’dma’ cheatcode; added ’custom-noram’ boot option so that custom packages can be loaded without significant RAM usage; Feather now includes the ’readahead’ cheatcode to load files into the disk cache at boot - this speeds up general operation when the user has 384MB of RAM or more; made some small changes to the USB boot process; added script to download practically everything needed for web development." Download: feather-0.7.2.iso (113MB).
2005-01-01 Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.7.1
Happy a prosperous New Year to all visitors of DistroWatch! The first release of 2005 belongs to the Feather Linux project, which has just announced version 0.7.1. From the changelog: "Included aterm, a terminal supporting transparency and other features; added the Ruby scripting language; added rcrack (a hash cracker), sil (a banner grabber), nbtstat and dsniff; added giFTcurs; added cdparanoia; added elinks, a text-only browser; updated many system-based packages to those from Knoppix 3.7; added option to feather-hdinstall to add custom options on the LILO append line; added a new soundcard configuration tool if the other fails, which can be found in Tools -> Scripts; made some small changes to rm-dpkg; fixed Opera, Java and Flash scripts...." Download: feather-0.7.1.iso (102MB).
2004-12-26 Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.7
A new major upgrade to Feather Linux has been released. From the changelog: "Feather is now bound by a 128MB limit instead of a 64MB one; added Firefox, Thunderbird, AbiWord, Ethereal, GAIM, rox-filer, MPlayer, IceWM, Siag Office, Imposter, wmDrawer and fireFTP; updated tmsnc to 0.1.4, ndiswrapper to 0.12, Fluxbox to 0.9.10, Dillo to 0.8.3, OpenOffice.org script to 1.1.3; updated Java script; added xls2csv, a program to convert Excel files into CSV spreadsheets; added script to download and install LT modem drivers; added script to configure ndiswrapper; added webcam support (this includes webcamd and xawtv); removed Mutella and links-hacked." Download: feather-0.7.iso/> (103MB); also available via BitTorrent.
2004-11-27 Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.6.2
A new version of the Feather Linux mini live CD has been released. From the changelog: "Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2: added ’wakeonlan’, a tool to send Wake-on-LAN packets; included a custom resolution option in the X setup script; made some small MPlayer changes; updated aMSN script to 0.94; lowered memory usage slightly by a few changes; cleaned up /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig; made it possible to add users while running from CD or USB stick; made hard disk boot faster; updated Arno’s firewall script to version 1.8.3-BE." Download: feather-0.6.2.iso (61.6MB); a BitTorrent tracker is also available.
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