0.5.0 FLY-0.5 is available now. Do I really need to tell you where to get it?

Lots of new things in this release. For starters, FLY now has some (most?) of its final functionality! It has a GUI, GUI applications, and even a very beta (read: non-functional) installation script (ONLY FOR TESTING AT THIS POINT!) [and currently it doesnt work anyways!]

0.5 also takes advantage of the Gentoo 2008.0_beta2 profile which significantly simplifies the build process of the LiveCD. Despite this profile being a beta, it seems to be fully stable. The full release of the profile is due in a week or two (the original release date was May 19th as I understand it and the current release date is sometime first week of July)

The main fixes in 0.5 mostly revolve around the boot process. For anyone who's been paying attention to the boot process in earlier versions you'll surely have noticed a few things that were off. They've been fixed. The issues about shutdown/reboot have yet to be addressed, those are a little harder and less of a priority.

Now onto the applications. Firefox doesnt have any theme or addons yet. I've not quite figured out how to apply addons to the LiveCD, likely I'd have to compile FLY without Xorg running, but Im not sure. Theme creation is up for grabs, so long as it matches the current background artwork. The aircrack-ng suite is included and even in the menu. The menu items dont work quite as they should, without sudo I havent figured out how. But just open a terminal window and away you go. Kismet will run, but you need to modify /etc/kismet.conf first and add in the specifics for your wireless card. (Eventually, we'll need to script this!) I cant quite think of anything else for now..

I'll let the dev log do the rest of the talking, and remember, file any bugs, and be active in the FLY sub-forums!
Devlog 
0.5 (released June 29th 2008)
ISO size: 236mb
Total packages: 365
Total build time: 848minutes (14.1 hours)
Upgraded from Gentoo 2007.0 profile to Gentoo 2008.0_beta2 profile
Significant revision to install scripts
Removed the following from /etc/portage/package.keywords
        =net-fs/curlftpfs-0.9.1
        =net-wireless/madwifi-ng-0.9.4
        =net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools-0.9.4
Added the following to /etc/portage/package.use
        app-admin/conky -audacious
        media-video/mplayer gtk cpudetection real mmxext
        net-analyzer/nmap gtk
        net-analyzer/wireshark gtk
        net-im/pidgin gtk
        net-misc/putty gtk
        net-misc/tightvnc server
        net-wireless/wpa_supplicant madwifi
        x11-libs/cairo svg
        x11-wm/fluxbox imlib truetype
Added jpeg and png global USE flags to /etc/make.conf
Added mozilla-firefox, abiword, xchat, pidgin, tightvnc, nmap, wireshark, xfe
Added aircrack-ng, feh, gparted
Removed vnstat iftop curlftpfs
Added FLY hard disk installation script version 0.1
Modified /sbin/rc
Modified /etc/init.d/alsasound
Modified /etc/init.d/localmount
Modified /etc/init.d/bootmisc
Modified /etc/init.d/netmount
Modified /etc/init.d/autoconfig
Modified /root/.irssi/config
Modified /root/.fluxbox/menu
Modified /root/.fluxbox/lastwallpaper
Modified /root/.fluxbox/init
Modified /root/.xchat2/servlist_.conf
Added /root/.fluxbox/backgrounds/FLY1024x768.jpg
Added /root/.xchat2/ and contents
Added /root/.FLYinstaller/ and contents
Updated the following ebuilds:
        sys-libs/timezone-data-2008c from 2008b
        net-analyser/tcpdump-3.9.8-r1 from 3.9.8
        sys-devel/autoconf-2.61-r2 from 2.61-r1
        net-misc/rsync-3.0.2 from 2.6.9-r6
        sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 rebuild without -headers-only
        x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.30 from 0.23