Deadline approaching

There's been some sort of activity lately, and here is what's coming from it :
I moved all the services to a new server, and fixed a little bit of the web design. We're now settled to begin releasing.
I Updated our kernel to use the 2.6.28 sources along with aufs and sqlzma. Zero should be working on the wifi patches already.
We also plan on publishing our portage tree so ppl can benefit from our ebuilds and kernel sources.

We should come up with a beta release by the end of january. You can join us on irc if you want to check out alpha release and help us out.





BTW, here is what the future theme will look like

We're actually growing

Hi,

We've had a lot of troubles catching ourselves on the project, but I finally have some good and bad news.

The bad is that gentoo totally dropped unionfs from their genkernel tool.
The good is that I forked it and I've included some extra stuff:

• Moved to aufs
• Changes saving is supported from the kernel loading, before the system starts so you can completely customize it.
  
• You can create the file from within the boot-up so it's very easy to setup

That's it for the kernel/initrd generation...

People from LSO joined the project, so you can expect a really nice quality emerging from Pentoo, once it will be ready for takeoff.

Rumors, rumors... Zero told me that he's working on our custom 2.6.25 kernel...

If you want to help the project, you can catch us on irc://irc.freenode.net/#pentoo

That's it for now

Project status update

So as I said, we are _still_ working on pentoo and from the last couple of weeks, i can tell that :

- Catalyst building is working.
- Menu generation is somewhat working
- Move from unionfs to aufs is working
- I could get rid of QT (wouhou)
- There will be some very cool stuff in a future release. :)

Actually, the last test i ran made me a 563M (including portage tree!), letting some room for more tools, kernel and so on. I could even patch the kernel for lzm support but i don't feel like it need it atm.

Grimmlin

Our new todo list

Hi everyone,

It's been a while since we updated the project so here it is :

Since Zero and me broke the base system, we have to start over from scratch for the next pentoo version. It should be done entirely with catalyst.

Meanwhile, I'm migrating the server to a new host.

We have both a lot to do in real life at the moment but we _are_ willing to continue the development so don't worry, there will be a new version coming out.

Cheers
Grimmlin

Site maintenance

Hi there,

The site will be mostly unavailable tomorrow Saturday the 18 November from 8h30 am to 11h30 am GMT+1. We have some hardware and software maintenance scheduled on our server.

BTW, we are testing the new 2006.2 fat version and we're getting closer to a release so stay tunned.

New developer and progress

Recently, Zero_Chaos from aircrack-ng teamed up with us and joined the pentoo development effort.

He is literally making the kernel happy with all the wifi drivers and patches.

So, to update the previous statement, we were sleeping but he is now here to kick our asses and push pentoo to the max...

Still around

We're not dead, we're just sleeping...

Actually i have a lot of stuff to do in the real world but I'm still working on pentoo. I n fact, I'm more working on the catalyst version atm but i still expect to throw out a beta sometime in the near future.

For the catalyst version, i made a little program that should generate the e17 menu automagically.

Stay tuned

MacBook Pro booted on pentoo

I just had the opportunity to test pentoo on a MacBook pro and i can tell that it boots to e17 without problem and really fast, thanks to the intel core duo!

The wifi is detected as a an atheros adapter and the ati chip is working well with X11. The only thing i did not test was the sound

Catalyst and pentoo

I was finally able to understand the catalyst process correctly, thanks to this howto done by Lucas Casagrande.

I've also started to do another install of gentoo, this time for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu...

Meanwhile, i've done some testing of the fat 2006.1 SMP and after some compilations done i can tell that unionfs is pretty stable.

Upcomming 2006.1 Fat version

I've rebuilt the kernel to include SMP and HT support. I'll have to test out the unionfs 1.2 to see if it's stable enough.

Meanwhile, I've started to write down some ideas for the future pentoo versions that'll be done with catalyst.

I'm going into vacations from the 5 to the 20 august so don't expect news until then.

New Mini-Pentoo 2006.1 to be released

Well, this is almost official, the 2006.1 is to be released tonight or tomorrow. In a sense, when i'll have the time to do it.

Here is the Changelog :

Added wifi injection support for the following drivers :
Madwifi-ng, Hostap, wlan-ng, rtl8180, prism54/GT
Integrated the portagedb so no need for the module during install.
Created a mplayer module.
Added some firefox extensions: Live-Http-Headers, Temper-data, ShowIP, No-Referrer

Updated
Nessus, Yersinia, bluediving, metasploit, nmap, kernel(2.6.16-r7)

Added :
Kismet autoconfigure script, based on airmon-ng.
The pentoo installer, based on gentoo's one.
Wifitap, tcpdump, Impacket, ipw3945 driver, Realtek RTL 8168 driver, zd1211 driver,
irssi, aircrack-ng, ipsorcery, Bluetooth stack smasher, arpwatch, hexedit, slocate.

Meanwhile, i've updated a lot the fat version, allowing it to grow up to 660 Mb. More infos about it soon.