Frenzy 1.0-RC1

WARNING! THIS SOFTWARE REQUIRES TESTING BECAUSE OF POSSIBLE SOFTWARE ERRORS. AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE OR DATA LOSS AND OTHER UNPREDICTABLE SITUATIONS, WHICH CAN HAPPEN BECAUSE OF THIS SOFTWARE USAGE.

RC1 bugs and patches (last updated 16 May 2006)

Information about this version

• Base system - FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
• Software listing for Frenzy 1.0-RC1 Standard
• Improved boot loader with different booting options:
• Selection of system language (supported languages: en, ru, ua, bg, cz, de, es, fr, it, pl, sk). Translators wanted :)
• Setting of RAM disk size (now common RAM disk used for all mfs)
• Possibility of booting from compressed image on HDD (file frenzy.uzip must be put in frenzy/ directory of root directory on any partition)
• Different HDD interaction modes (mount read-write / find partitions, but do not mount them / do not touch HDD at all)
• Disabling of automatical backup restoring
• Possibility of automatical GUI loading
• Configuration center (frconf) for console setup, swap file creation, configuration of LAN, Dialup, VPN, ADSL.
• HDD installer (install2hdd, can cause some problems)
• USB Flash installer(install2flash, can cause some problems)
• New backup utilities, for now without GUI ("frbk-create" and "frbk-restore", archive with backup must be in frenzy/backup/ directory on any partition or floppy or USB Flash)
• Stress-testing utility ("stresstest")
• Brand new look :)

Improvements since BETA1

• Added net-mgmt/nettop, net/arpdig, net/binkd, net/bittwist, security/fswatch, security/medusa, security/rainbowcrack, sysutils/fuser, sysutils/ldapvi, sysutils/logserial, sysutils/sfdisk, x11/gcb
• all-mount и all-umount: mount and unmount all HDD partitions
• remount: remount HDD partitions in RW/RO mode
• Now fluxbox menu contains all utilities from CD
• New GTK1 and GTK2 theme
• frlang: creates file with keyboard layouts for xorg
• frlang: modifying .xxkbrc for indication keyboard layout corresponding to selected language
• xautoconf: parameter "safe" for using driver "vesa" (command "xautoconf safe")
• xautoconf: keyboard layout taken from file, generated by frlang

FIXED bugs since BETA1

• On some BIOSes CD with Frenzy seen as not bootable
• Problem with sysinstall, error in /root/.cdialog
• install2flash: Error while installing boot loader
• Does not start "sleuth", no config
• Does not start "kismet", no config
• Does not start fuse.ko, incorrect sysctl.conf
• Bug in stresstest, cannot start some tests
• X.org hanging on ATI video
• Very small font in X.org on some monitors

Download

• Frenzy 1.0-RC1 Standard (English and Russian version) on 53x11.net, very fast
• Frenzy 1.0-RC1 Standard (English version with support of European languages) (md5)
• Frenzy 1.0-RC1 Standard (Russian version) (md5)

Screenshots

• Frenzy 1.0-RC1, system utilities
• Frenzy 1.0-RC1, network utilities