Announcement: GoboLinux 016 beta

Greetings!

I'm happy to announce the release of the second preview of GoboLinux
016 for x86-64. Thanks to your feedback, we have made this snapshot
more smooth and robust. Again, we appreciate your testing of 016 beta.
We're hoping to have 016 final very soon.

The torrent file can be downloaded from here:
* http://gobolinux.org/iso/GoboLinux-016-beta-x86_64.iso.torrent

The ISO file is also available on HTTP, but we encourage you to get it
from torrent and to kindly help us seed it. We are still short on
bandwidth and looking for mirrors to help us handle the traffic.
* http://gobolinux.org/iso/GoboLinux-016-beta-x86_64.iso (md5:
http://gobolinux.org/iso/GoboLinux-016-beta-x86_64.md5)

Major changes since 016 alpha:
- Kernel: new version with support for generic x86-64 processors
- Runner: many improvements and new features for /System/Index virtualization
- GoboHide: major rewrite and bug fixes, now using generic netlink sockets
- Installer, Kernel: included preliminary support for MacBooks
- LiveCD: improved support for booting off from USB

Fixes performed based on user feedback:
- Gimp: package fix
- Firefox: pages are now rendered as expected (/dev/shm fix)
- Python, Compile: missing Python files are back
- Desktop: removal of dead .desktop links
- DHCP, LiveCD: increased client timeout
- Installer: the install partition is now removed from the list of
potential bootloader targets
- Stripped binary files to reduce the size of the ISO image (1.5GB -> 930MB)
- Xorg: the keyboard layout configured at boot time is now applied to
the desktop environment
- Networking: try to autoconnect to known wireless networks at login time

Other changes:
- GoboNet: package upgrade
- Firefox: package upgrade
- Xorg: Intel video driver upgrade
- New package: Dit editor
- ModeSetting: GRUB will boot with the modesetting driver by default
- VESAFB: GRUB's "advanced options" menu enables one to boot with the
VESA framebuffer driver
- CUPS: fixes to default settings
- Post-install: made mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts
- Post-install: letting members of group "sys" to execute privileged
commands through sudo
- Post-install: fixed skel clash (prioritizing EnhancedSkel's over Shadow's)

We hope you enjoy it!
Lucas
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