* Release notes.

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<listitem><para>Distribution files have been moved to <ulink
url="http://nix.cs.uu.nl" />).</para></listitem>
url="http://nix.cs.uu.nl" />.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The C library on Linux, Glibc, has been updated to
version 2.3.6.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The default compiler is now GCC 3.4.5. GCC 4.0.2 is
also available.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The old, unofficial Xlibs has been replaced by the
official modularised X11 distribution from X.org, i.e., X11R7.0.
X11R7.0 consists of 287 (!) packages, all of which are in Nixpkgs
though not all have been tested. It is now possible to build a
working X server. We use a fully Nixified X server on
NixOS.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The Sun JDK 5 has been purified, i.e., it doesnt
require any non-Nix components such as
<filename>/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>. This means that Java
applications such as Eclipse and Azureus can run on
NixOS.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Hardware-accelerated OpenGL support, used by games
like Quake 3 (which is now built from source).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved support for FreeBSD on
x86.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved Haskell support; e.g., the GHC build is now
pure.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Some support for cross-compilation: cross-compiling
builds of GCC and Binutils, and cross-compiled builds of the C
library uClibc.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Notable new packages:
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<listitem><para>teTeX, including support for building LaTeX
documents using Nix (with automatic dependency
determination).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ruby.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>System-level packages to support NixOS,
e.g. Grub, GNU parted and so on.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>ecj</literal>, the Eclipse Compiler for
Java, so we finally have a freely distributable compiler that
supports Java 5.0.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>php</literal>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The GIMP.</para></listitem>
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<para>The following people contributed to this release:
Andres Löh,
Armijn Hemel,
Bogdan Dumitriu,
Christof Douma,
Eelco Dolstra,
Eelco Visser,
Mart Kolthof,
Martin Bravenboer,
Rob Vermaas and
Roy van den Broek.
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