The LFS LiveCD Team is proud to announce the release of the
6.3-r2160
stable version of the LFS LiveCD for x86 and x86_64
architectures.
The CD contains the LFS book (version 6.3 for x86 CD, and
its
unofficial x86_64 equivalent for x86_64), and a lot of
software that
you need to build your own LFS system, ask for support and
perform
various recovery tasks. For each architecture, the CD is
available in
-min, -nosrc and full variants. The -min CD contains only a
text-mode
environment, -nosrc adds the X window system and the Xfce
desktop,
while the full CD also contains all LFS source tarballs. All
of the
above variants are suitable as hosts for building x86 and
x86_64 LFS
and CLFS systems.
There are the following user-visible changes as compared to
the
6.3-r2145 release:
* Speechd-up has been patched in order to be able to
recognize
one-character messages from git snapshots of speakup
properly. This
fixes the inability of visually-impaired users to examine
punctuation
characters (which are important, e.g., in command lines) and
to
distinguish between upper- and lowercase letters.
* The Xfmedia player has been replaced with gxine due to
old
video-related bugs and upstream inactivity.
If these changes don't affect your setup, there is no reason
to upgrade.
Note that the speechd-up and speech-dispatcher maintainer
has not
responded timely to my bug report about the
"speech-dispatcher listens
on 0.0.0.0 without access controls" security issue and
has not
responded at all to the "single character messages are
not recognized
as such" bug report
(http://lists.freebsoft.org/pipermail/speechd/2007
q4/000977.html). The
last commit in speechd-up repository happened 9 months ago.
There are
severe problems (kernel crashes!) with copying and pasting
text in
speakup. This, essentially, means that speakup is dead and
will not be
present on the next development version of the LFS LiveCD.
Feedback is
requested from its users about possible migration paths:
1) replace speakup with a purely userspace solution for a
console
screen reader (yasr, http://yasr.sourceforge.
net/)
2) maybe stop providing accessibility on the console (and
note that
Fedora 8 doesn't provide console screen readers at all),
default to
starting X, and use one of GNOME-based screen readers.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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