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diff --git a/content/blog/january-2023-news-post.org b/content/blog/january-2023-news-post.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..03f07f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/january-2023-news-post.org @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +#+title: January 2023 News Post +#+author: Cem Keylan +#+date: <2023-01-31 Tue> + +Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to the first Carbs Linux "News Post" in +nearly two years (wow that really is a long time). We have a couple of news that +I want to discuss in detail, so I decided that it warrants a blog post on its +own. + +#+TOC: headline 1 local + +** Bye bye, X.org + +Throughout the years I was already clear on my intentions to drop xorg support +at one point, and in my opinion both Wayland and its support around it has +matured enough to make the complete switch. I am currently writing this blog +post on, as of yet unreleased, pure-GTK build of Emacs which does not depend on +any X11 components. + +Carbs Linux was first published on December 2019 with xorg support only, and had +Wayland support since February 2021. This month, all xorg specific libraries, +drivers, and utilities (except for xwayland) have been dropped from the +repository. If you are currently an xorg user, you can read the [[https://carbslinux.org/docs/carbslinux/Switching-from-Xorg.html][Switching from +Xorg]] section of the user manual. Feel free to jump on the IRC channel for +requesting help. + +** CPT Version 7 Release + +After almost a year of delay, I am happy to finally announce that the 7th major +version of our package manager is released. You can learn more about the changes +from the [[https://fossil.carbslinux.org/cpt/doc/trunk/CHANGELOG.md][ChangeLog]] in the source repository. Some of the highlights include: + +- Package manager updates will be re-entrant from now on, meaning that you don't + have to run ~cpt-update~ twice. +- The new configuration directory is now available as =/etc/cpt/= in order to not + clutter the =/etc/= directory. +- Package manager hooks are now handled in a different manner. +- ~cpt-size~ program can now sort the files based on size. + +And many more changes and improvements along this one! Coming with this change, +I will also be releasing a new rootfs tarball soon. Follow the news feed for +more information. + +See you on the next post! |