Window Maker Live Files

  What is new since the last release?

  * This release mainly addresses the recently discovered and fixed
    Shellshock vulnerability of the bash shell. For further details,
    please see the https://shellshocker.net website.

  * The system now uses the more current backported Linux kernel version
    3.16.3 as its standard kernel. The debian installer's installation
    routine still relies on the the standard Wheezy 3.2 Linux kernel.

  * Since we don't need to limit the ISO image to CD size, all language
    support available in Debian/Wheezy has been re-enabled. The language
    of the installation routine will be the system's default language.

  * The ISO image now offers the choice to boot directly with either an
    American or British English environment, and also in Catalan, Danish,
    German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Slovak, Norwegian, Polish,
    and Portuguese. In addition, many more languages are supported.

  * Firefox and Thunderbird now offer the possibility to switch their UI
    language according to the current user's LANG environment variable.
    Still missing languages can be installed via the addons service.

  * The included firefox version 32.0.3 has been preconfigured using the
    addon Classic Theme Restorer to maintain traditional usability.

  * This release is still built on top of Debian stable release Wheezy,
    but contains all updates and security fixes accumulated up until the
    date this final wmlive release version was built.

  Some known issues:

  * The more recent 3.16.3 kernel from the wheezy-backports branch is
    used as standard kernel for the live system and once the system is
    installed to disk. The Debian Installer remains being based on the
    3.2 kernel, but is only used for the actual installation phase.

  * For 32bit systems, to enable bootstrapping and installing Window
    Maker Live also on vintage computers, a i486 Linux kernel is used as
    least common denominator. The multi core features of Core2Duo and
    later processors require a i686-pae kernel, which will be available
    via the grub boot menu once the system has been installed to disk.
    After installation, the kernel flavour not required for normal system
    operation can be safely removed.

  * The binaries for Firefox/Thunderbird versions shipped with wmlive
    were directly downloaded from ftp.mozilla.org and are not managed by
    the Debian package management system. If an upgrade of these programs
    is needed, manually run the mozfetch command as root or via sudo in a
    terminal window.

  * To largely maintain a uniform look and feel based on the gtk2step
    based Gnome theme which mimicks the Window Maker WINGs widget set,
    some limitations for package installations apply. Extensive use
    of apt-pinning was made, in order to shape package selections and to
    keep out GTK3 based applications. Please revise /etc/apt/preferences
    and modify it accordingly to get rid of these limitations if you
    plan to upgrade/install more recent packages.

  * Dialogs of the main wmlive scripts and menus are mostly in English,
    and translation quality and extent varies for the included languages.
    While translation of the user interface is not as complete as users
    might wish for, further internationalization requires the practical
    contributions of dedicated helpers.