Netkit V1 Release#

Compiling#

• Improved build process for the filesystem (decreasing build times from 40 minutes to 10 minutes!) which will make updating and maintaining the filesystem easier.
• Improved build process for all modules
• Moved core tools into the build repo
• Updated UML tools to 64 bit (hoorah!)
• Use the UK debian repos to make downloading packages that little bit faster
• Added dockerfile to compile using Docker - thanks @b177y

New in this release#

• LFTP & at packages
• Added support for Kitty & Alacritty terminal emulators
• New install script which asks what terminal emulator you wish to use (and handles installation of it!)
• Added message about 'lclean' when labs don't start properly

Bug fixes#

• Removed mmapper_init failed error message
• Removed failed to load autofs4 module error message
• Set timeout of startup script service to 5 minutes
• vstart --version now lists the correct kernel/fs version

Removed#

• Netkit welcome message has been removed (was broken before due to a bad systemd service config)

Coming in the future#

• Removing net-tools dependancy from core tools
• Exploring the concept of different distros for filesystems
• Making it more stable :-)

Massive thanks to @okman12 and @b177y for assisting me in improving this version :-)

Most importantly, we're now at v1.0.0 of our new Netkit :) Our improvements to the building process (removal of rootstrap, combining of the two repos) and our upgrade to Debian Bullseye + Linux Kernel 5.9 justify a big version jump in my opinion. So welcome to v1.0.0, the best update we've had so far :-)