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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b684063f99..dbcf23c874 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -76,6 +76,26 @@ The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-syste been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and CMake packages. +*** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more + +The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux +initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to +evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that +mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL: + + (expression->initrd + '(begin + (mkdir "/proc") + (mount "none" "/proc" "proc") + ((@ (system repl repl) start-repl)))) + +More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file. + +Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the +(gnu system vm) module. For instance, the +‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in +a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile. + ** GNU distribution Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the @@ -88,4 +108,5 @@ Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1. *** Noteworthy new packages -TeXLive, Xorg, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba. +TeXLive, Xorg, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo, CHICKEN, +Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba. |