COMP 3000 2011 Report: WattOS: Difference between revisions
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The following table displays information regarding WattOS's packages in R4 and R3 | |||
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<th> | <th>AbiWord: a full-featured word processor | ||
http://www.abisource.com/">abiword</a> (<a href="http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.8.6/source/abiword-2.8.6.tar.gz">2.8.6</a>)</th> | |||
<td class="Current">2.8.6</td> | <td class="Current">2.8.6</td> | ||
<td class="Current">2.8.6</td> | <td class="Current">2.8.6</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>alsa-lib: an audio library for use with the ALSA kernel modules | ||
http://www.alsa-project.org/">alsa-lib</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.24.1.tar.bz2">1.0.24.1</a>)</th> | |||
<td class="Current">1.0.24.1</td> | <td class="Current">1.0.24.1</td> | ||
<td>1.0.23</td> | <td>1.0.23</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>ATI driver: a proprietary Linux display driver for XFree86/X.Org by ATI, the Catalyst series | ||
http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/">ati-driver</a> (<a href="http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run">8.902</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>8.780</td> | <td>8.780</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Banshee: a music management and playback application for GNOME | ||
http://banshee-project.org/">banshee</a> (<a href="http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/2.2/banshee-2.2.1.tar.xz">2.2.1</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Bash: an sh-compatible command language interpreter | ||
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html">bash</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.2.tar.gz">4.2</a>)</th> | |||
<td class="Current">4.2</td> | <td class="Current">4.2</td> | ||
<td>4.1</td> | <td>4.1</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>ISC BIND: an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols | ||
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/">bind</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.8.1/bind-9.8.1.tar.gz">9.8.1</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Google Chromium: an open-source edition of Google Chrome, a graphical web browser | ||
http://code.google.com/chromium/">chromium</a> (<a href="http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/Linux/09902/chrome-linux.zip">r109902</a>)</th> | |||
<td>r90304</td> | <td>r90304</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Compiz: a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL | ||
http://compiz.org/">compiz</a> (<a href="http://releases.compiz.org/0.8.8/compiz-0.8.8.tar.gz">0.8.8</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>CUPS: a UNIX printing system based on the Internet Printing Protocol | ||
http://www.cups.org/">cups</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.5.0/cups-1.5.0-source.tar.bz2">1.5.0</a>)</th> | |||
<td>1.4.6</td> | <td>1.4.6</td> | ||
<td>1.4.4</td> | <td>1.4.4</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>ISC DHCP: a server and client for automatic IP configuration | ||
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/">dhcp</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/4.2.3/dhcp-4.2.3.tar.gz">4.2.3</a>)</th> | |||
<td>4.1.1-P1</td> | <td>4.1.1-P1</td> | ||
<td>3.1.3</td> | <td>3.1.3</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Mozilla Firefox: a web browser for Windows, Linux and MacOS X | ||
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">firefox</a> (<a href="ftp://63.245.208.138/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/8.0/source/firefox-8.0.source.tar.bz2">8.0</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>3.6.13</td> | <td>3.6.13</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>FreeType: a free, quality, portable font engine | ||
http://www.freetype.org/">freetype</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/freetype-2.4.7.tar.bz2">2.4.7</a>)</th> | |||
<td>2.4.4</td> | <td>2.4.4</td> | ||
<td>2.4.2</td> | <td>2.4.2</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>GNU GCC: the GNU compiler collection | ||
http://gcc.gnu.org/">gcc</a> (<a href="ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-4.6.2/gcc-4.6.2.tar.bz2">4.6.2</a>)</th> | |||
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<th> | <th>GIMP: the GNU Image Manipulation Program | ||
http://www.gimp.org/">gimp</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/gimp-2.6.11.tar.bz2">2.6.11</a>)</th> | |||
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<th> | <th>glibc: a C library for use with GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux | ||
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">glibc</a> (<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.14.1.tar.gz">2.14.1</a>)</th> | |||
<td>2.13</td> | <td>2.13</td> | ||
<td>2.12.1</td> | <td>2.12.1</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>GNOME Shell: a core user interface of the GNOME 3 desktop | ||
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell">gnome-shell</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-shell/3.2/gnome-shell-3.2.1.tar.bz2">3.2.1</a>)</th> | |||
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<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>GNUCash: an open source personal finance suite | ||
http://www.gnucash.org/">gnucash</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.8.tar.bz2">2.4.8</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Gnumeric: a spreadsheet and a part of the GNOME Desktop | ||
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/">gnumeric</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnumeric/1.10/gnumeric-1.10.17.tar.bz2">1.10.17</a>)</th> | |||
<td>1.10.13</td> | <td>1.10.13</td> | ||
<td>1.10.8</td> | <td>1.10.8</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>GRUB: the GRand Unified Bootloader | ||
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">grub</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.99.tar.gz">1.99</a>)</th> | |||
<td class="Beta">1.99rc1</td> | <td class="Beta">1.99rc1</td> | ||
<td>1.98</td> | <td>1.98</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>GTK+: a multi-platform toolkit for creating GUIs | ||
http://www.gtk.org/">gtk+</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/3.2/gtk+-3.2.2.tar.bz2">3.2.2</a>)</th> | |||
<td>2.24.4</td> | <td>2.24.4</td> | ||
<td>2.22.0</td> | <td>2.22.0</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>httpd: a high-performance HTTP server, Apache 2.x version series | ||
http://httpd.apache.org/">httpd</a> (<a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.21.tar.gz">2.2.21</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<tr class="Background"> | <tr class="Background"> | ||
<th> | <th>Inkscape: a drawing tool that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG) | ||
http://www.inkscape.org/">inkscape</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.48.2.tar.gz">0.48.2</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>JRE: a software bundle from Oracle that allows a computer system to run a Java application | ||
http://www.java.com/">jre</a> (<a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/">7u1</a>)</th> | |||
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<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>K3b: a KDE-GUI for cdrecord and cdrdao, similar to Nero | ||
http://www.k3b.org/">k3b</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/k3b/k3b-2.0.2.tar.bz2">2.0.2</a>)</th> | |||
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<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>kdelibs: the KDE library API reference | ||
http://www.kde.org/">kdelibs</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.7.3/src/kdelibs-4.7.3.tar.bz2">4.7.3</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>libgnome: the library that provides access to the non-X11 dependant parts of the GNOME framework | ||
http://www.gnome.org/">libgnome</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgnome/2.32/libgnome-2.32.1.tar.bz2">2.32.1</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>2.32.0</td> | <td>2.32.0</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>LibreOffice: a free personal productivity suite | ||
http://www.libreoffice.org/">libreoffice</a> (<a href="http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.4/">3.4.4</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Linux kernel: a UNIX clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds | ||
http://www.kernel.org/">linux</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.1.1.tar.gz">3.1.1</a>)</th> | |||
<td>2.6.38</td> | <td>2.6.38</td> | ||
<td>2.6.35</td> | <td>2.6.35</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>LXDE: a lightweight, fast and energy-saving desktop environment | ||
http://www.lxde.org/">lxde-common</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxde-common-0.5.5.tar.gz">0.5.5</a>)</th> | |||
<td>0.5.0</td> | <td>0.5.0</td> | ||
<td>0.5.0</td> | <td>0.5.0</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Module Init Tools: a set of programs for loading, inserting, and removing kernel modules for Linux (versions 2.5.48 and above) | ||
https://modules.wiki.kernel.org/">module-init-tools</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-3.16.tar.bz2">3.16</a>)</th> | |||
<td>3.12</td> | <td>3.12</td> | ||
<td>3.12</td> | <td>3.12</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>MySQL: an SQL database server | ||
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/">mysql</a> (<a href="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/mysql-5.5.17.tar.gz">5.5.17</a>)</th> | |||
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<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Nautilus: a file manager for the GNOME desktop | ||
http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus">nautilus</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/nautilus/3.2/nautilus-3.2.1.tar.bz2">3.2.1</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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</tr> | </tr> | ||
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<th> | <th>NVIDIA: a proprietary display driver for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris | ||
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html">NVIDIA</a> (<a href="http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/285.05.09/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-285.05.09.run">285.05.09</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>260.19.06</td> | <td>260.19.06</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Openbox: a standards-compliant, lightweight, extensible window manager | ||
http://openbox.org/">openbox</a> (<a href="http://openbox.org/dist/openbox/openbox-3.5.0.tar.gz">3.5.0</a>)</th> | |||
<td>3.4.11.2</td> | <td>3.4.11.2</td> | ||
<td>3.4.11.1</td> | <td>3.4.11.1</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>OpenSSH: a client and server for encrypted remote logins and file transfers | ||
http://www.openssh.com/portable.html">openssh</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.com/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-5.9p1.tar.gz">5.9p1</a>)</th> | |||
<td>5.8p1</td> | <td>5.8p1</td> | ||
<td>5.5p1</td> | <td>5.5p1</td> | ||
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<tr class="Background"> | <tr class="Background"> | ||
<th> | <th>OpenSSL: a library for providing encrypted transport layers | ||
http://www.openssl.org/">openssl</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz">1.0.0e</a>)</th> | |||
<td>0.9.8o</td> | <td>0.9.8o</td> | ||
<td>0.9.8o</td> | <td>0.9.8o</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Perl: Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Reporting Language | ||
http://www.perl.org">perl</a> (<a href="http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.14.2.tar.gz">5.14.2</a>)</th> | |||
<td>5.10.1</td> | <td>5.10.1</td> | ||
<td>5.10.1</td> | <td>5.10.1</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>PHP: a server-side HTML embedded scripting language | ||
http://www.php.net/">php</a> (<a href="http://us3.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.8.tar.bz2">5.3.8</a>)</th> | |||
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<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Pidgin: an instant messenger client for several protocols (formerly GAIM) | ||
http://pidgin.im/">pidgin</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.10.0.tar.bz2">2.10.0</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Postfix: a mail transport agent | ||
http://www.postfix.org/start.html">postfix</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.8.7.tar.gz">2.8.7</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<tr> | <tr> | ||
<th> | <th>PostgreSQL: a relational database management system | ||
http://www.postgresql.org/">postgresql</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.1.1/postgresql-9.1.1.tar.bz2">9.1.1</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Python: an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language | ||
http://www.python.org/">Python</a> (<a href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.2.2/Python-3.2.2.tgz">3.2.2</a>)</th> | |||
<td>2.7.1</td> | <td>2.7.1</td> | ||
<td>2.6.6</td> | <td>2.6.6</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Qt/X11: a C++ application framework for writing graphical applications | ||
http://www.trolltech.com/products">qt</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4.tar.gz">4.7.4</a>)</th> | |||
<td>4.7.2</td> | <td>4.7.2</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Samba: a free software re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol | ||
http://www.samba.org/">samba</a> (<a href="http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-3.6.1.tar.gz">3.6.1</a>)</th> | |||
<td>3.5.8</td> | <td>3.5.8</td> | ||
<td>3.5.4</td> | <td>3.5.4</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>Mozilla Thunderbird: a full-featured e-mail and newsgroup client | ||
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/">thunderbird</a> (<a href="ftp://63.245.208.138/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/8.0/source/thunderbird-8.0.source.tar.bz2">8.0</a>)</th> | |||
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<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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<th> | <th>udev: provides a dynamic /dev directory and persistent device names | ||
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html">udev</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-174.tar.bz2">174</a>)</th> | |||
<td>167</td> | <td>167</td> | ||
<td>162</td> | <td>162</td> | ||
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</tr> | </tr> | ||
<tr> | <tr> | ||
<th> | <th>Vim: an improved version of the editor "vi", one of the standard text editors on UNIX | ||
http://www.vim.org/">vim</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.3.tar.bz2">7.3</a>)</th> | |||
<td class="Current">7.3</td> | <td class="Current">7.3</td> | ||
<td>7.2</td> | <td>7.2</td> | ||
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</tr> | </tr> | ||
<tr class="Background"> | <tr class="Background"> | ||
<th> | <th>VLC: a cross-platform media player and streaming server | ||
http://www.videolan.org/streaming/">vlc</a> (<a href="http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.12/vlc-1.1.12.tar.bz2">1.1.12</a>)</th> | |||
<td>1.1.9</td> | <td>1.1.9</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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</tr> | </tr> | ||
<tr> | <tr> | ||
<th> | <th>Xfdesktop: a desktop manager for the Xfce desktop | ||
http://www.xfce.org/">xfdesktop</a> (<a href="http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.8/xfdesktop-4.8.3.tar.bz2">4.8.3</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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</tr> | </tr> | ||
<tr class="Background"> | <tr class="Background"> | ||
<th> | <th>xine-lib: contains the libraries for xine, a free video player | ||
http://www.xine-project.org/">xine-lib</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xine/xine-lib-1.1.20.tar.bz2">1.1.20</a>)</th> | |||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
<td>--</td> | <td>--</td> | ||
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</tr> | </tr> | ||
<tr> | <tr> | ||
<th> | <th>X.Org: the X.Org Foundation's public implementation of the X Window System | ||
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/">xorg-server</a> (<a href="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.11.2.tar.bz2">1.11.2</a>)</th> | |||
<td>1.10.1</td> | <td>1.10.1</td> | ||
<td>1.9.0</td> | <td>1.9.0</td> | ||
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</tr> | </tr> | ||
<tr class="Background"> | <tr class="Background"> | ||
<th> | <th>XZ Utils: data compression software with high compression ratio | ||
http://tukaani.org/xz/">xz</a> (<a href="http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.3.tar.xz">5.0.3</a>)</th> | |||
<td>5.0.0</td> | <td>5.0.0</td> | ||
<td>4.999.9</td> | <td>4.999.9</td> | ||
Revision as of 20:07, 14 November 2011
Part 1
Background
This report contains information about the WattOS distribution. WattOS is a lightweight Ubuntu-based Linux. It was developed by Ronald Ropp, a technology consultant based in Portland, Oregon. WattOS celebrated its fourth release on August 14th 2011. It can be downloaded here and is approximately 540MB. WattOS is accessible to regular users and does not require command line expertise to use.
"The goal is to balance responsiveness, function and footprint and to maintain a somewhat minimalist interface so you do not lose a quick, efficient way to move around your apps and desktop space while not having to be a command line ninja to do so."
Release History
R4 released August 14th 2011.
R3 released January 10th 2011.
R2 released June 23rd 2010.
1.0 released July 17th 2009.
Installation
A WattOS iso is available for download here. The installation described in this report was installed in a virtual environment using VirtualBox. VirtualBox is available for download and can be installed using the wizard provided. I mounted the WattOS iso on a virtual drive and used it to create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox. Afterwards the VirtualBox new virtual machine wizard was used to configure the instillation.
Steps In New Virtual Machine Wizard
The amount of RAM available to WattOS was configured.
A hard disk was created for WattOS, this launched a 'Create New Virtual Disk' wizard.
The wizard provides the user a choice of creating a fixed sized disk or a disk with a dynamic size. I chose a dynamic size.
The wizard provides the option of choosing a location for the hard disk to reside on the host OS.
Start the newly created machine, this starts the 'First Run' wizard.
Select the drive containing the WattOS iso.
After a brief pause WattOS will boot and show the user this screen:
At this point the user may press tab to configure the system.
If tab is pressed a prompt appears.
I selected the option labeled install, afterwards an installation wizard opened to guide me through the installation process.
Steps In WattOS Installation Wizard
Selects a language.
Option of erasing the drive specified for WattOS's installation or to specify a partition.
Specify location and timezone.
Specify keyboard layout.
Specify username and computer's name.
The duration of the installation is approximately 2min. Upon completion WattOS displays a dialog informing the user that the computer must be restarted. After rebooting the user is presented with WattOS's Desktop: a green background prominently featuring an dragonfly. There are four applications on the desktop and a task bar at the bottom of the screen.
Basic Operation
The Sylpheed email client is installed and can be configured to connect to several types of servers. All functionality associated with email clients is present.(compose, structured email hierarchy, drafts, address book search etc.)Figure 1
Audacious audio player is installed and can be used to create play lists and of course play songs. Figure 2
Chromium Web Browser is installed and works. Downloading works as expected. Figure 3
The File Manager has all functionality expected in a modern OS. Figure 4
The System task manager functions much like the windows equivalent and can be customized to display different information. Figure 5
A power manager is supplied that can configure your system's power saving behavior. Figure 6
Usage Evaluation
WattOS accomplishes it's goals. It remains responsive even under heavy load. The applications installed start quickly and accomplish all routine tasks users perform. WattOS only requires 256MB to install and 100-120MB whilst running and can be run using a 366MHZ processor.
Part 2
Software Packaging
WattOS uses the Debian package management system. This system includes an Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) which can be used to update find and install packages.
'dpkg -l' can be used to list all installed packages
'apt-get upgrade' can be used to get upgrades to packages you've installed.
'apt-get install foo' is used to install foo.
'apt-get remove' can be used to recursively remove a package and packages that depend on it.
Major package versions
The following table displays information regarding WattOS's packages in R4 and R3
| Feature | R4 | R3 | R2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Release Date | 2011/08/13 | 2011/01/10 | 2010/06/23 |
| Price (US$) | Free | Free | Free |
| CDs | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Free Download | <a href="http://www.planetwatt.com/download/files">ISO</a> | <a href="http://www.planetwatt.com/download/files">ISO</a> | <a href="http://www.planetwatt.com/download/files">ISO</a> |
| Installation | Graphical | Graphical | Graphical |
| Default Desktop | LXDE | LXDE | LXDE |
| Package Management | DEB | DEB | DEB |
| Office Suite | GOffice | GOffice | GOffice |
| Processor Architecture | i386 | i386 | i386 |
| Journaled File Systems | Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS | ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS | ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS |
| Multilingual | |||
| Asian Language Support | |||
| Package | R4 | R3 | R2 |
| AbiWord: a full-featured word processor http://www.abisource.com/">abiword</a> (<a href="http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.8.6/source/abiword-2.8.6.tar.gz">2.8.6</a>) | 2.8.6 | 2.8.6 | 2.8.2 |
| alsa-lib: an audio library for use with the ALSA kernel modules http://www.alsa-project.org/">alsa-lib</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.24.1.tar.bz2">1.0.24.1</a>) | 1.0.24.1 | 1.0.23 | 1.0.22 |
| ATI driver: a proprietary Linux display driver for XFree86/X.Org by ATI, the Catalyst series http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/">ati-driver</a> (<a href="http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run">8.902</a>) | -- | 8.780 | 8.723 |
| Banshee: a music management and playback application for GNOME http://banshee-project.org/">banshee</a> (<a href="http://download.banshee-project.org/banshee/stable/2.2/banshee-2.2.1.tar.xz">2.2.1</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| Bash: an sh-compatible command language interpreter http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html">bash</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.2.tar.gz">4.2</a>) | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| ISC BIND: an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/">bind</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.8.1/bind-9.8.1.tar.gz">9.8.1</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| Google Chromium: an open-source edition of Google Chrome, a graphical web browser http://code.google.com/chromium/">chromium</a> (<a href="http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/Linux/09902/chrome-linux.zip">r109902</a>) | r90304 | -- | -- |
| Compiz: a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL http://compiz.org/">compiz</a> (<a href="http://releases.compiz.org/0.8.8/compiz-0.8.8.tar.gz">0.8.8</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| CUPS: a UNIX printing system based on the Internet Printing Protocol http://www.cups.org/">cups</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.5.0/cups-1.5.0-source.tar.bz2">1.5.0</a>) | 1.4.6 | 1.4.4 | 1.4.3 |
| ISC DHCP: a server and client for automatic IP configuration http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/">dhcp</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/4.2.3/dhcp-4.2.3.tar.gz">4.2.3</a>) | 4.1.1-P1 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 |
| Mozilla Firefox: a web browser for Windows, Linux and MacOS X http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">firefox</a> (<a href="ftp://63.245.208.138/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/8.0/source/firefox-8.0.source.tar.bz2">8.0</a>) | -- | 3.6.13 | 3.6.3 |
| FreeType: a free, quality, portable font engine http://www.freetype.org/">freetype</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/freetype-2.4.7.tar.bz2">2.4.7</a>) | 2.4.4 | 2.4.2 | 2.3.11 |
| GNU GCC: the GNU compiler collection http://gcc.gnu.org/">gcc</a> (<a href="ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-4.6.2/gcc-4.6.2.tar.bz2">4.6.2</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| GIMP: the GNU Image Manipulation Program http://www.gimp.org/">gimp</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/gimp-2.6.11.tar.bz2">2.6.11</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| glibc: a C library for use with GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">glibc</a> (<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.14.1.tar.gz">2.14.1</a>) | 2.13 | 2.12.1 | 2.11.1 |
| GNOME Shell: a core user interface of the GNOME 3 desktop http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell">gnome-shell</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-shell/3.2/gnome-shell-3.2.1.tar.bz2">3.2.1</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| GNUCash: an open source personal finance suite http://www.gnucash.org/">gnucash</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.8.tar.bz2">2.4.8</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| Gnumeric: a spreadsheet and a part of the GNOME Desktop http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/">gnumeric</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnumeric/1.10/gnumeric-1.10.17.tar.bz2">1.10.17</a>) | 1.10.13 | 1.10.8 | 1.10.1 |
| GRUB: the GRand Unified Bootloader http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">grub</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.99.tar.gz">1.99</a>) | 1.99rc1 | 1.98 | 1.98 |
| GTK+: a multi-platform toolkit for creating GUIs http://www.gtk.org/">gtk+</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/3.2/gtk+-3.2.2.tar.bz2">3.2.2</a>) | 2.24.4 | 2.22.0 | 2.20.1 |
| httpd: a high-performance HTTP server, Apache 2.x version series http://httpd.apache.org/">httpd</a> (<a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.21.tar.gz">2.2.21</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| Inkscape: a drawing tool that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG) http://www.inkscape.org/">inkscape</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.48.2.tar.gz">0.48.2</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| JRE: a software bundle from Oracle that allows a computer system to run a Java application http://www.java.com/">jre</a> (<a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/">7u1</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| K3b: a KDE-GUI for cdrecord and cdrdao, similar to Nero http://www.k3b.org/">k3b</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/k3b/k3b-2.0.2.tar.bz2">2.0.2</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| kdelibs: the KDE library API reference http://www.kde.org/">kdelibs</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.7.3/src/kdelibs-4.7.3.tar.bz2">4.7.3</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| libgnome: the library that provides access to the non-X11 dependant parts of the GNOME framework http://www.gnome.org/">libgnome</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgnome/2.32/libgnome-2.32.1.tar.bz2">2.32.1</a>) | -- | 2.32.0 | 2.30.0 |
| Package | R4 | R3 | R2 |
| LibreOffice: a free personal productivity suite http://www.libreoffice.org/">libreoffice</a> (<a href="http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.4/">3.4.4</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| Linux kernel: a UNIX clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds http://www.kernel.org/">linux</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.1.1.tar.gz">3.1.1</a>) | 2.6.38 | 2.6.35 | 2.6.32 |
| LXDE: a lightweight, fast and energy-saving desktop environment http://www.lxde.org/">lxde-common</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxde-common-0.5.5.tar.gz">0.5.5</a>) | 0.5.0 | 0.5.0 | 0.5.0 |
| Module Init Tools: a set of programs for loading, inserting, and removing kernel modules for Linux (versions 2.5.48 and above) https://modules.wiki.kernel.org/">module-init-tools</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-3.16.tar.bz2">3.16</a>) | 3.12 | 3.12 | 3.11.1 |
| MySQL: an SQL database server http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/">mysql</a> (<a href="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/mysql-5.5.17.tar.gz">5.5.17</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| Nautilus: a file manager for the GNOME desktop http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus">nautilus</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/nautilus/3.2/nautilus-3.2.1.tar.bz2">3.2.1</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| NVIDIA: a proprietary display driver for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html">NVIDIA</a> (<a href="http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/285.05.09/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-285.05.09.run">285.05.09</a>) | -- | 260.19.06 | 195.36.24 |
| Openbox: a standards-compliant, lightweight, extensible window manager http://openbox.org/">openbox</a> (<a href="http://openbox.org/dist/openbox/openbox-3.5.0.tar.gz">3.5.0</a>) | 3.4.11.2 | 3.4.11.1 | 3.4.10 |
| OpenSSH: a client and server for encrypted remote logins and file transfers http://www.openssh.com/portable.html">openssh</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.com/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-5.9p1.tar.gz">5.9p1</a>) | 5.8p1 | 5.5p1 | 5.3p1 |
| OpenSSL: a library for providing encrypted transport layers http://www.openssl.org/">openssl</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz">1.0.0e</a>) | 0.9.8o | 0.9.8o | 0.9.8k |
| Perl: Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Reporting Language http://www.perl.org">perl</a> (<a href="http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.14.2.tar.gz">5.14.2</a>) | 5.10.1 | 5.10.1 | 5.10.1 |
| PHP: a server-side HTML embedded scripting language http://www.php.net/">php</a> (<a href="http://us3.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.8.tar.bz2">5.3.8</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| Pidgin: an instant messenger client for several protocols (formerly GAIM) http://pidgin.im/">pidgin</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.10.0.tar.bz2">2.10.0</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| Postfix: a mail transport agent http://www.postfix.org/start.html">postfix</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.8.7.tar.gz">2.8.7</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| PostgreSQL: a relational database management system http://www.postgresql.org/">postgresql</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.1.1/postgresql-9.1.1.tar.bz2">9.1.1</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| Python: an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language http://www.python.org/">Python</a> (<a href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.2.2/Python-3.2.2.tgz">3.2.2</a>) | 2.7.1 | 2.6.6 | 2.6.5 |
| Qt/X11: a C++ application framework for writing graphical applications http://www.trolltech.com/products">qt</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4.tar.gz">4.7.4</a>) | 4.7.2 | -- | -- |
| Samba: a free software re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol http://www.samba.org/">samba</a> (<a href="http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-3.6.1.tar.gz">3.6.1</a>) | 3.5.8 | 3.5.4 | 3.4.7 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird: a full-featured e-mail and newsgroup client http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/">thunderbird</a> (<a href="ftp://63.245.208.138/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/8.0/source/thunderbird-8.0.source.tar.bz2">8.0</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| udev: provides a dynamic /dev directory and persistent device names http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html">udev</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-174.tar.bz2">174</a>) | 167 | 162 | 151 |
| Vim: an improved version of the editor "vi", one of the standard text editors on UNIX http://www.vim.org/">vim</a> (<a href="ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.3.tar.bz2">7.3</a>) | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.2 |
| VLC: a cross-platform media player and streaming server http://www.videolan.org/streaming/">vlc</a> (<a href="http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.12/vlc-1.1.12.tar.bz2">1.1.12</a>) | 1.1.9 | -- | -- |
| Xfdesktop: a desktop manager for the Xfce desktop http://www.xfce.org/">xfdesktop</a> (<a href="http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.8/xfdesktop-4.8.3.tar.bz2">4.8.3</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| xine-lib: contains the libraries for xine, a free video player http://www.xine-project.org/">xine-lib</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xine/xine-lib-1.1.20.tar.bz2">1.1.20</a>) | -- | -- | -- |
| X.Org: the X.Org Foundation's public implementation of the X Window System http://xorg.freedesktop.org/">xorg-server</a> (<a href="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.11.2.tar.bz2">1.11.2</a>) | 1.10.1 | 1.9.0 | 1.7.6 |
| XZ Utils: data compression software with high compression ratio http://tukaani.org/xz/">xz</a> (<a href="http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.3.tar.xz">5.0.3</a>) | 5.0.0 | 4.999.9 | -- |
Initialization
Part 3
Coming soon...
References
Reed, Michael "Developer Interview: Ronald 'wattOS' Ropp" Apr 25, 2011 http://www.linuxjournal.com/
baxter, biff "Biffs Blog - wattOS R4 release" August 14 http://www.planetwatt.com
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