Annvix Development Blog

Been a while since there’s been any posts here. My apologies, but most of the development work has been sporadic and what has been done has been less than exciting. Well, there are a few moderately exciting things. One is the new kernel (2.6.22.12) which is exciting in the fact that it took a lot of time to get things updated to handle it (especially the installer, which consumed most of my day today). Anyways, I’m thinking this week a 2.1-CURRENT beta ISO may hit the mirrors so people can get a taste of what’s new in the installer.

Ok ok… I’ll spoil the surprise. Support for the 2.6.22.12 kernel is what’s new. Beyond that, there isn’t a whole lot. I’ve elected to remain with the old-style IDE drivers rather than the new (and less than perfect, or so I’m told) PATA drivers. That, of course, doesn’t prevent you from playing with it on your own — it just means the installer won’t set it up for you. Beyond that, nothing really has changed in the installer other than removing any references to RSBAC (since we no longer provide it) and installing AppArmor by default.

So when will 2.1-RELEASE (or, more likely, 3.0-RELEASE) be available? Can’t really tell. If I could get 2-3 weeks of solid work time on it, I’d say by the end of the year. As it stands, and since that likely won’t happen, I’d be wagering sometime late January or February — again depending on how much time I can find to work on it. This week I do plan to setup a live machine running 2.1-CURRENT and start messing around with the services and whatnot to start poking for bugs, and I’d like to get some AppArmor profiles definitely written and setup per default for the next release.

Anyways, it’s been a few months since there was a post here and before someone starts thinking Annvix is dead, I figured I should (somehow) indicate that it’s still alive. Like a snail we move forward… just slowly.