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Version 2.0  -  2007/02/04

Released SkatOS 1.5 as SkatOS 2.0 without any further changes.

Brief summary of the changes since SkatOS 1.0:

Packed the kernel with UPX and packed the following programs and libs with
lzma: Xvesa, xskat, skatoswm, menu, libX11, libm libdl. This saves amlost
180kb of space and gives us the opportunity to include many more network
drivers and gadgets into SkatOS.

Added many new network devices:
Network device support
   --> Ethernet (10 or 100 Mbit)
        --> 3c509/3c579 support
	--> 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support
	--> AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support
	--> DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support
	--> DM9102 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
	--> EtherExpress 16 support
	--> EtherExpressPro/EtherExpress 10 (i82595) support                 
	--> Generic DECchip & DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA
	--> RealTek 8129/8139 driver (8139too) support with support for 8129
	--> SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
	--> SMC EtherPower II
	--> TI ThunderLAN support
Networking options --> Packet socket

Added some busybox applets (chmod, route) and compiled busybox ifconfig with
status display support.
Added DHCP client support for automatically network configuration via udhcpc.
Added a upx compressed version of loadlin to the floppy.
Added a little script which updates the menu automagically to display the
current IP-address.

Updated the menu program to 2.01-bg-1.1.
Renamed the kernel and initrd on the floppy disk to more unic names...
Changed the configuration system to be a little bit more up to date and much
more solid.

Replaced sWM with SkatOSWM. SkatOSWM is a very very simple window manager
whose only function is to center windows. No bars, no icons no everything.
This does not look as good as before but saves space and has the same effect,
since sWM itself was only included because of the centering windows function.

Everything is a little bit lovelier now, for example You are greeted in the
menu after starting the X-Server...


Added loadlin 1.6c
Added SkatOSWM 1.0
Added udhcpc 0.9.8
Added unlzma

Updated menu to 2.01-bg-1.1

Removed sWM 1.3.4c

Released Floppy / CD Version.
Please report bugs to SkatOS@Giannone.de


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Version 1.5

Updated the decompress script a little.

Added some new network devices:
Network device support
        --> Ethernet (10 or 100 Mbit)
	    --> Generic DECchip & DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA
	    --> EtherExpress 16 support
	    --> EtherExpressPro/EtherExpress 10 (i82595) support


This version was never released.


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Version 1.4

Compressed also udhcpc with lzma.

Added many new network devices:
Network device support
        --> Ethernet (10 or 100 Mbit)
	    --> 3c509/3c579 support
	    --> 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support
	    --> DM9102 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
	    --> TI ThunderLAN support
	    --> SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
	    --> DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support
	    --> AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support
	    --> Alternative RealTek 8129/8139 driver (8139too) support with 
                Support for 8129 (NEW)
	    --> SMC EtherPower II

Updated the network configuration script a little...

Renamed the kernel and initrd on the floppy disk to more unic names...


This version was never released.


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Version 1.3

Added the little DHCP client udhcpc. This gives us the possibility of
automatically network configuration. This is a great advantage. So the user
can now choose if he or she wants to configure the network automatically,
manually or not at all...

Therefore added a new kernel configuration option: 
Networking options --> Packet socket

Added a upx compressed version of loadlin to the floppy.

After all these changes we still have about 150kb left for additional
network drivers or other features...

Added udhcpc 0.9.8
Added loadlin 1.6c

This version was never released.


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Version 1.2

Packed the kernel with UPX. This saves almost 50kb of space.

Packed the following programs and libs with lzma: Xvesa, xskat, skatoswm,
menu, libX11, libm libdl. This saves amlost 130kb of space.

Changed the busybox shell to msh.

Added the little utility unlzma to unpack the packed files at startup ...

Compiled busybox ifconfig with status display support.

Added a little script which updates the menu automagically to display the
current IP-address.

Changed the configuration to be a little bit more up to date...

Everything is a little bit lovelier now, for example You are greeted in the
menu after starting the X-Server...

Added some busybox applets: chmod, route, msh
Removed some busybox applets: hush

Added unlzma

This version was never released.


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Version 1.1

Updated the menu program to 2.01-bg-1.1.

Replaced sWM with SkatOSWM. SkatOSWM is a very very simple window manager
whose only function is to center windows. No bars, no icons no everything.
This does not look as good as before but saves space and has the same effect.
sWM was itself only included because of the centering windows function.

So we have the same function but saved space to include for example more
network drivers. Of cousrse we do have centered Windows also on the client.


Recompiled busybox and changed the shell from msh to hush.

Added SkatOSWM 1.0

Updated menu to 2.01-bg-1.1

Removed sWM 1.3.4c

This version was never released.


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Version 1.0  -  2004/08/08

Well now finally I proudly present SkatOS 1.0
It now includes full client/server network support.

The XSkat gui for multiplayer lan games works now.
This is really much more comfortable. So I clould 
simplify the boot/network scripts greatly.

Updated the menu program to 2.01-bg-1.0.

Since I experience no more problems with SkatOS and 
received not one report I assume it is now stable.

I hope You enjoy it.

Updated menu to 2.01-bg-1.0

Released Floppy / CD Version.
Please report bugs to SkatOS@Giannone.de


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Version 0.9

Added a new kernel 2.2.26 with network support.
As usual is is compiled with the devps patch.
The newly included options are:

General Setup --> PCI support 
                  --> ANY PCI acces mode
                  --> PCI quirks
                  --> Backward compatible /proc/pci

Network device support
        --> Dummy net driver support
        --> Ethernet (10 or 100 Mbit)
            --> RealTek 8129/8139 support
            --> NE2000/NE1000 support
            --> AMD PCnet32 (VLB and PCI) support
            --> EtherExpressPro/100 support
            --> PCI NE2000 support
            --> Via Rhine support
                     
Added the really small window manager sWM 1.3.4c.
Since it can center new windows automatically we
do now have centered windows also on the client.

Patched XSkat to use "fixed" as standard font.

Since the timeout script does not seem to work
right on most systems it is deactivated for now.

Changed the init scripts a little so that the user
knows what the system is doing.

But the main goal of course are the NETWORK FUNCTIONS.
Now SkatOS includes full client/server functions for
playing XSkat over LAN. Since I do have no idea why the
XSkat GUI for starting the LAN service does not work I
included a little script to help us out ;-) ...

Network functions are only activated if a supported
network card is found. If You want other cards supported
please write me and I will see what I can do.

Due to space reasons loadlin is no more included to the floppy.
You can download it from my homepage if You need. The skatos.bat
to load SkatOS with loadlin remains.

The configuration files are now in a separate archive.


Added sWM 1.3.4c
Readded XSkat 4.0

This version was never released.


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Version 0.8  -  2004/07/18

Recompiled XFree86 4.2.1 with some minor changes.
You can find the host.def on the floppy. With it
recompiled XSkat without any changes.

Recompiled Busybox and added some new applets:
dmesg, grep, ifconfig

Changed the script structure a little: 
*Added a stopx script
*Added a xskat script which starts xskat.bin 
 with the right parameters
*Added a dummy xhost
*The applications are now started in the background
 so we leave tty1 free for the shell.

Added a little menu program which I found in the
internet. I had to adapt it a little but now it 
is possible to restart XSkat or shutdown the system
with a mouse click. This is a primary step to the
network function because now the Xserver does not
shutdown itself any more when XSkat exits.

Added menu 2004-07-18

Released Floppy / CD Version.
Please report bugs to SkatOS@Giannone.de


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Version 0.7  -  2004/07/10

Updated uClibc to 0.9.24

Added a little welcome message. So we know what
type of system we are starting... :-)

Recompiled the whole system under uClibc 0.9.24 
with the following flags: -Os -mcpu=i386 -march=i386

This saves quite a lot of space again... ;-)

I could readd loadlin and still had a little space
on the floppy left. Perhaps we could think about
abandon loadlin and integrate network functions
in the future...

Updated uClibc to 0.9.24
Added loadlin 1.6c

Released Floppy / CD Version.
Please report bugs to SkatOS@Giannone.de
 

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Version 0.6  -  2004/07/03

Updated XSkat to the latest version. This version
is quite smaller than the last one, so I could
reduce the floppy size to a regular 1.4MB disk.

So we can now use the same image for floppy and
CD Version. This is quite comfortable.

Therefore I had to remove loadlin. If You want to
start SkatOS with loadlin (not very common) You
have to download it separately from my homepage.

The network functions are still not implemented.

Updated XSkat to 4.0

Removed loadlin

Released Floppy / CD Version.
Please report bugs to SkatOS@Giannone.de


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Version 0.5  -  2003/12/10

Switched the floppy size to 1743 KB.
Using Syslinux again as the bootloader.

Released Floppy and CD Version.
Please report bugs to SkatOS@Giannone.de


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Version 0.4

Recompiled the kernel with the devps-patch.
Switched the root-filesystem to minix.
Removed all filesystems but minix from the kernel.
Removed the floppy driver from the kernel
so the only supported block device is ramdisk.
Recompiled BusyBox to use devps and devmtab
so there is no need for /proc anymore.
This saves a lot of RAM.

Changed the size of the floppy to 1722 KB.
Now everything fits on ONE SINGLE floppy disk.
Since I had bad problems with syslinux for the
1722 KB floppy we use freedos with loadlin as 
the bootloader.

The system should now work in 8 MB of RAM.

This version was never released.


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Version 0.3

Changed the kernel to version 2.2.25
Changed the initrd-size to 2.5 MB
This saves a lot of RAM.

Added Kernel 2.2.25
Removed Kernel 2.4.23

This version was never released.


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Version 0.2

Changed libc to uClibc 0.9.23
Changed TinyX to version 4.2.1

/tmp is no more tmpfs

Recompiled the system against uClibc.

Removed some unused BusyBox linked programs.

Added uClibc 0.9.23
Added TinyX 4.2.1

Removed glibc 2.2.5
Removed TinyX 4.3.0

This version was never released.


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Version 0.1

First SkatOS Release

Contents:
Kernel 2.4.23
glibc 2.2.5
Busybox 0.60.5
TinyX-VESA 4.3.0
XSkat 2.3

Drivers: Floppy, Serial, PS/2-Mouse, Keyboard

Filesystems: ext2, proc, tmpfs

Ramdisk-Size: 4 MB

Released 2-Floppy and CD Version.
Please report bugs to SkatOS@Giannone.de