History of the release

After the 1.4.1 release on February the 21th, I did the usual work for a maintenance release. The main work was done in the ROCK Linux 1.7 tree where we reunite all the work, to share it in the future. But when I became familiar with the new scripts I noticed that it is rather easy to update our dRock tree to a glibc-2.2.x (which I already tried so hard in the November of 2001 ...). So I _just_ did it ;-). Other problems that drove me to this decission was a) more and more people complained that it is not possible to build dRock-1.4.x on a glibc-2.2 system (so I initially tried to fix only this - but it doesn't seem to be possible ...) and b) that KDE needs a glibc to hande the new euro sign (€) right. So with 1.6 we get all this (and more) before the ROCK Linux 2.0 release ;-)

So 1.6.0 version is a straigt-forward maintenance release including a glibc update and many other packages (including KDE-3.0.1 and KOffice-1.2-beta2) are updated! - To indicate this binary-incompatibility with the 1.4 series I raised the version number to 1.6 (although the build-environment doesn't match with the ROCK Linux 1.6 one exactly - but since our scripts compile the packges in a way that works, this shouldn't matter that much ...).

I also cleaned the build-scripts slightly. The .desc files are now 1.7 compatinle (no .pz files anymore) and also the auto-patching is done in the same way ;-)

How do I install dRock?

Generic dRock installation instructions
You need a 2.4.x kernel (with devfs enabled), glibc-2.1.x or 2.2.x and the lib-tools-1.4.x on your host system if you like to compile dRock from scratch!

The errata of 1.6.0 (final)

- The included gpm has some problems with PS2 Inteli-Mices when switching between X11 and a VT.