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Sep 16 2020
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The libressl "revert" was reverted. System update will replace libressl
dependencies with bearssl. You may choose to keep or remove bearssl after the
update.

Sep 03 2020
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The default TLS provider has been reverted to 'libressl'. System update will
replace bearssl dependencies with libressl. You may choose to keep or remove
bearssl after the update.

Jul 27 2020
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Carbs Linux's fork of the `kiss` package manager has been renamed to
`Carbs Packaging Tools` due to huge amount of changes. Your latest `kiss`
update will handle the bootstrapping. You will need to rename your `KISS-*`
variables to `CPT-*`

Jun 17 2020
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A new rootfs tarball including the changes to the core is released and can be
found on the downloads page.

May 26 2020
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An initial version for binary package management is released.
It can be found on the [GitHub page].

[GitHub page]: https://github.com/CarbsLinux/kiss-bin

May 19 2020
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A rootfs tarball targeting the i686 architecture has
been released. It can be found on the [downloads page]

[downloads page]: https://dl.carbslinux.org/releases/i686

May 10 2020
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A GCC 10.1.0 change causes a kernel panic for kernels built
with GCC 10.1. This issue can be resolved by applying this
[patch] to your kernel sources.

[patch]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/patch/?id=f670269a42bfdd2c83a1118cc3d1b475547eac22

Apr 27 2020
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A new rootfs tarball has been released! You can
see it on <https://dl.carbslinux.org/releases>!

**EDIT:** A new bug fix release has been made.

Apr 10 2020
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IRC channel can now be accessed from `#carbslinux` at freenode!

Apr 06 2020
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A new rootfs tarball has been released. See the
[downloads](https://dl.carbslinux.org) page

Apr 05 2020
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Carbs Linux repositories will be hosted only on Github. Commits will be
pushed there, and not the repository. You have until
May 4, 2020 Monday to switch your remotes to <https://github.com/CarbsLinux/repository>.
The git repository will continue to be served until then (without additional
commits).

You can switch your remote by executing the following command on your
repository directory.

    git remote set-url origin https://github.com/CarbsLinux/repository


Feb 18 2020
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A new tarball is released. It can be found on <https://dl.carbslinux.org>.

**edit:** I have removed the tarball because of a bootstrapping issue. 
I will be re-adding it later today.

**edit 2:** I have added a tarball (20200219) to reflect my recent
changes on Busybox.


Feb 14 2020
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**IMPORTANT!** Carbs-init update to be released on 17th of February
will require manual intervention. I am holding this update back so
people can see it before they update their system (even though the
update will show the same message as this). The rationale for the
update is explained below the intervention.

    # There is an explanation for each init
    # You only need to follow the instructions
    # for your own init-system

    ## busybox-init
    # If you did not edit your inittab simply 
    # move inittab.new to inittab
    -> mv /etc/inittab.new /etc/inittab

    # If you did edit your inittab you can use
    # a simple sed command to remove the necessary lines
    -> sed -i '/getty/d;/runsvdir/d' /etc/inittab


    ## runit
    # same as busybox-init, if you did not edit
    # /etc/runit/2 move 2.new to 2
    -> mv /etc/runit/2.new /etc/runit/2

    # else
    -> vim /etc/runit/2
    # open your 2 file and remove the for loop containing
    # getty commands. If you are using runit, it is recommended
    # to comment out /etc/init/runit.boot

    ## sinit/minit
    # If you did not edit your {sinit-,}launch-services.boot
    # you can simply remove it.
    -> rm -f /etc/init/launch-services.boot /etc/init/sinit-launch-services.boot

    # This should leave you without any issues, and you can safely reboot.

Carbs-init update is to make sure init systems do not clash, and do
not have to use different files. This is a sensible update both for
the user user and for the maintainer side. 

To give an example, before this update busybox-init was managing getty
through `inittab`, runit was managing through `/etc/runit/2`, and
minit/sinit were launching from `/etc/init/launch-services.boot`. This
is a configuration nightmare for everyone, and since I am maintaining
and constantly testing those init providers, a huge nightmare for me. 
This is a Quality of Life update.


Feb 13 2020
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Runit is now released on the core repository! You can now replace
busybox-init with runit-init. You can also replace the busybox runit
utilities with the actual runit. This will reduce the dependency on
busybox greatly.

Jan 28 2020
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Web Server is now on a Carbs Linux server. It is not complete yet,
but I will be adding a little more for the intended functionality.
Downtimes can be expected.

UPDATE: ssl is now working.

UPDATE2: downloads are back again.


Jan 22 2020
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Expect downtime on Jan 24 2020 22:00 UTC as I will be migrating
this web server to my Carbs Linux server!


Jan 15 2020
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sinit has been taken to `core`, and is now officially supported


Jan 13 2020
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**Busybox update reqires manual intervention**

The new busybox package conflicts with the pre-update busybox-init. That's why
you should rebuild and install `busybox-init` before doing the update.

    # Do a kiss update first (but don't actually update it yet), or manually pull the git repository
    $ kiss u  # Cancel this operation after it asks for you to confirm the update
    
    # Install the busybox-init package
    $ kiss b busybox-init && kiss i busybox-init
    
    # Continue your update as you normally would.
    $ kiss u

I have moved runit and logging utilities from the busybox-init package to the busybox
package, which is the cause of these conflicts.

Jan 10 2020
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carbs-rootfs-20200110.tar.xz was [released](//dl.carbslinux.org/releases)


Jan 09 2020
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Happy new year, everyone! I am back after some long silence. I was unable to commit for a
while, but I have pulled some new updates from the KISS repository, added some of my own.
This week I will be changing/adding some things.

Important things are,

* Carbs-init was updated to 0.3.
* I will be adding an implementation of suckless.org's [sinit](//core.suckless.org/sinit) as `carbs-sinit`
* Carbs Repository was added to [repology.org](//repology.org/repository/carbs)
* A new rootfs tarball will be coming up tomorrow.


Dec 18 2019
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carbs-rootfs-20191218.tar.xz was [released](//dl.carbslinux.org/releases)


Dec 17 2019
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Installation instruction are now complete. A review would be greatly appreciated!


Dec 15 2019
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Carbs Linux Wiki is now available to be edited and updated by the users go
to the [wiki](//carbslinux.org/wiki) to obtain more information.

**February 2020 EDIT:** Changed link for wiki


Dec 12 2019
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Busybox and Busybox-init has been seperated into two different packages.
This is for adding standalone runit/runit-init to the repositories.


Dec 10 2019
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First alpha release was made. See the [downloads page](//dl.carbslinux.org/releases).