Ark Linux 2005.1-SR1 released

Ark Linux 2005.1-SR1, a bugfix release of Ark Linux 2005.1, has been released.

Mostly due to our lack of test hardware (donations welcome ;) ) and testers 
(volunteers welcome ;) ), a couple of bugs worth fixing immediately managed 
to get into Ark Linux 2005.1 -- based on user feedback, we have made a 
Service Release to address them and add some commonly requested features.

Ark Linux 2005.1-SR1 fixes the following problems:
- In some configurations, USB drivers were not loaded on startup
- In some configurations, stored network settings were not re-activated on 
startup
- kuser complained about /etc/gshadow not being present when creating new 
users
- ndiswrapper drivers failed to load due to a wrongly tagged version
- Some SATA controllers using Silicon Image chipsets were not recognized 
during installation
- The delete key printed a tilde character instead of deleting a character in  
root konsole sessions
- The Python interpreter has been updated to 2.4.1 to fix a security bug
- Several minor bugs have been fixed

The following commonly requested features have been added: 
- Newly installed machines automatically retrieve network settings from DHCP 
servers (if there is one)
- DHCP-Enabled network interfaces no longer delay the bootup process if no 
DHCP server is found
- Support for Zeroconf (better known as RendezvousTM to people familiar with 
MacOS) support has been added.
- The X.Org Composite extension, allowing to use real transparent windows, is 
now enabled (but not used by default).
- Detection for NTFS filesystems on USB harddisks/memory sticks has been 
improved
- Support for TI ACX100 based wireless cards has been added [for this to work, 
you have to install the firmware-acx100 package from our package repository 
after installation -- the firmware files are not Open Source and therefore 
not included in the base OS]

Ark Linux 2005.1-SR1 is available for download at http://www.arklinux.org/ - 
existing users of Ark Linux 2005.1 can update to 2005.1-SR1 using the 
"Install Software" tool in Mission control (select, in that order, Refresh 
package information from repositories, Upgrade all packages, and Commit 
changes to the system), or on the command line using apt-get update; apt-get 
dist-upgrade.