freepia

New features include software-based suspend to
disk support, the freevo shutdown plugin,
bootsplash support for bootlogos, the lirc package
for serial stuff, and the ATI Remote Wonder. More
keyboard layouts were added to keymaps.tgz. Large
file support was added to busybox. The
/etc/sysconfig parameters were changed to set
freevo media directories.

This release supports 5.1 surround sound over S/PDIF (coax). A new graphics driver brings better performance. There is dhcpclient support and smbclient support. Partitions are now autodetected. USB storage supporthas been added to store configuration on USB devices. Kernel 2.4.21-rc2 is now used. rootfs has been shrunken. There is cramfs support for packages, a US keyboard layout, and many bugfixes.

Freepia no longer needs the first partition on the first disk device. It now searches for the config files in each partition and then on the CD drives. If no config files are found, an emergency menu is started. Freepia can now be booted completely from a CD without requiring a complete install. Running from CD will only save the configuration data on the hard disk. CDROM drives now may be autodetected and included into freevo/fstab/mnt. The rootfs was shrunk by around 2MB. hdparm (for DMA tuning) and noflushd (for powerdown on idle) are now used for all IDE hard disks.