Knoppix 7.7

[utu]

Bought April 2016 LinuxPro Magazine with Knoppix 7.7 LiveDVD.
Available at Barnes & Noble here on April 2, 2016.
Newsstand price is $12.99US plus local tax.

Magazine notes some listed 7.7 features are 'for DVD-only version only'.
--maybe there's still some hope for a CD-version.

Called-up Synaptic & did reload; noted alioth 'unsigned' warning;
libc6 2.21-7 24Jan16 installed; 2.22-5 29Mar16 now available.

Uname -a says 64-bit kernel is 4.4.0.

dmesg | grep fail lists four instances; two sytemd-udevd alsactl-related,
two systemd-logid service-start-related.
No dmesg instances related to keywords warn, error or corrupt.

knoppix.version lists 2016-02-05 release date for 7.7.0.
df -kTh shows KNOPPIX 7.7 made up of 3 cloops.
Takes 34 seconds to boot to browser-on-line, 15 seconds to shut-down.

My changes so far amount to a 60Mb cloop when compacted.

Yet to do
Haven't found evidence for bfq yet.
Having trouble making firefox autostart.
Otherwise uneventful new LiveUSB install on 8Gb cruzer wih 2 Gb reiser persistence.

[otropogo]

Bought April 2016 LinuxPro Magazine with Knoppix 7.7 LiveDVD.
Available at Barnes & Noble here on April 2, 2016.
Newsstand price is $12.99US plus local tax....

Thanks for this news. Does anyone know where one can buy this issue:

a) at a retail outlet in Montreal (ie. newstand, bookstore) or,

b) online for shipment to Canada?

[philo]

Is it so boring just to wait for the next latest and greatest official release?

[utu]

Is it so boring just to wait for the next latest and greatest official release?

7.7 brings a lot of things up-to-date and adds a few new things, but for the most part looks to me like 7.6.1.
It makes libc6 a little better, but it is still behind on the very latest patches for libc6.
systemd noises noted on 7.6.1 dmesgs are still evident in 7.7.
7.7 advertises Firefox 45, but my 7.7 iso installed Iceweasel 44.
With a Synaptic reload, one can bring these last two situations more up-to-date.
I'm not aware that BFQ affects anything noticeable in my Knoppix desktop experience,
and I don't have any current need for the new 3d & backup stuff that 7.6 and 7.7 offer.

A singular feature of 7.7 (relative to 7.6.1, for example) is using a cloop solely to bring in Flash for Iceweasel or Firefox.
I expect this is reasonable if Linux/LinuxPro magazines have authority to distribute, where Klaus K does not.
This feature may have been in prior CeBIT Knoppix versions; I never looked at one before.