Sunday, February 28, 2010

Vine Linux is a supreme Linux distribution with integrated Japanese environment for desktop PCs and notebooks.

Vine Linux is a compact and lightweight Japanese Linux distribution for desktop PCs and notebooks.

The whole Vine Linux distribution consists of two categories: one CD install media (Vine Linux main) which can also be installed from 1GB USB memory media; and additional package collections (Vine Plus).

Vine Linux is an rpm-based distribution with apt-rpm powered, which helps easy and straightahead package managements.

Key features:

The following are some of the key features of Vine Linux:

  • Graphical installation interface powered by Anaconda
  • Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and RAID are supported by the installer. LVM is the default disk partitioning scheme
  • Disk encryption is not supported by the installer
  • Ext3 is the only journaling file system type available during installation
  • RPM-based, but APT-ified
  • Firewall is enabled out of the box


Update (via Distrowatch):


Vine Linux Daisuke Suzuki has announced the release of Vine Linux 5.2, a Japanese general-purpose community distribution. This is mostly a security and errata update of the free distribution which does not contain any proprietary components, non-free applications or non-free fonts. Some of the more interesting changes include: miscellaneous package version updates (Firefox 3.5.15, Pidgin 2.7.5, Sylpheed 3.0.2, Thunderbird 3.1.6); improved video card support for various Intel, NVIDIA and ATI cards; system installer fixes, including improved detection of FAT file systems, support for SD cards and Firewire controllers, and better detection of wireless network cards; updated list of APT mirrors; the DVD edition now includes the Vine Linux manual.

Read the
release announcement (in Japanese) and release notes for more details about the new version of Vine Linux.

Download: Vine52-i386-DVD.iso (1,064MB, SHA1), Vine52-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,064MB, SHA1), Vine52-ppc-DVD.iso (1,112MB, SHA1).


Recent Releases:

• 2010-11-30: Distribution Release: Vine Linux 5.2
• 2010-02-26: Distribution Release: Vine Linux 5.1
• 2009-08-25: Distribution Release: Vine Linux 5.0
• 2009-04-28: Development Release: Vine Linux 5.0 Alpha
• 2007-12-25: Distribution Release: Vine Linux 4.2
• 2007-12-09: Development Release: Vine Linux 4.2 RC1



Vine Linux 5 runs on 32bit Intel PC (ix86), 64bit Intel PC (x86_64) and 32bit PowerPC Macintosh (ppc), and all editions provide nearly equivalent experience on all archtectures.

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Igelle is an advanced modern operating system for desktop computers, mobile devices, embedded systems and server computers.

Markku Kero has announced the release of Igelle 1.0.0, an independent desktop Linux distribution featuring a custom desktop, package management and other unique characteristics: "We are happy to announce the release and immediate availability of a distinct flavor of Igelle, Igelle DSV 1.0.0 for personal computer desktops.

Igelle DSV provides a general-purpose desktop operating system for desktop computers, laptops, netbooks and the like, and is in this release made available to personal computers using Intel-compatible processors (x86). In summary, this release is characterized by the following: pleasurable and simple end-user experience; small, fast, light and powerful; introducing the Esther desktop; innovative system and package management; easy application installation and packaging; integrated developer tools; cutting-edge open-source technology.
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Read the rest of the release announcement to learn more about Igelle.

Download the installable live CD image from here: igelle-dsv_i686_1.0.0.iso (587MB, MD5).



Recent releases:


• 2010-02-22: Distribution Release: Igelle 1.0.0
• 2009-03-18: Distribution Release: Igelle PC/Desktop 0.6.0



Igelle D-Series: Desktop Computers.

The Igelle D-Series delivers a unique graphical desktop experience that combines beauty, security, ease of use, wide application availability, customization and ease of development together in an easy-to-use desktop operating system that takes over the familiar desktop, laptop, notebook and net book form factors and many more where a modern graphical desktop may not have been possible before.

USAGE SCENARIOS

* Graphical desktops for corporations and organizations
* Graphical desktop computing for home use
* Desktop, netbook, MID, UMPC operating systems
* Kiosk computers
* Specialized GUI applications (POS systems, customized corporate apps, and more)

IGELLE DSV

Igelle DSV is version of Igelle, providing a modern, cutting edge, general purpose graphical desktop experience for desktop, laptop and notebook/netbook form factors/use cases.
Igelle M-Series: Mobile Devices

ABOUT IGELLE M-SERIES

The Igelle M-Series provides the ultimate answer to the newly emerging requirements of mobile computing. The M-Series provides the features that you need while on the go, with all the power and flexibility of Igelle, while taking into account the special needs in areas of ease of use, user interface, battery life and the real-life scenarios that you'll encounter while on the go. The Igelle M-Series provides an ideal operating system for a mobile phone, a PDA-like device or a portable internet terminal, just to name a few possible examples.

USAGE SCENARIOS

* Mobile Phones
* PDAs, Internet tablets, and more
* Navigation (GPS) devices
* Portable/handheld computers
* Custom-built handheld devices


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Igelle M-Series: Mobile Devices.

ABOUT IGELLE M-SERIES

The Igelle M-Series provides the ultimate answer to the newly emerging requirements of mobile computing. The M-Series provides the features that you need while on the go, with all the power and flexibility of Igelle, while taking into account the special needs in areas of ease of use, user interface, battery life and the real-life scenarios that you'll encounter while on the go. The Igelle M-Series provides an ideal operating system for a mobile phone, a PDA-like device or a portable internet terminal, just to name a few possible examples.

USAGE SCENARIOS

* Mobile Phones
* PDAs, Internet tablets, and more
* Navigation (GPS) devices
* Portable/handheld computers
* Custom-built handheld devices

Igelle S-Series: Server Systems.

The Igelle S-Series powers up your office automation and IT systems as well as your data center. This ultimate server solution provides all the standard needs for server-type computing, including web servers, database systems, network services such as DHCP, DNS, and so much more.

USAGE SCENARIOS

* Office automation services
* Data center, online services
* Database systems, web servers
* Firewalls, networking, network monitoring
* Custom server applications

Igelle E-Series: Embedded Systems.

The Igelle E-Series provides an amazing platform for development of systems that cater for very specific, customized or completely new usage scenarios. The E-Series provides a solid, flexible foundation from which to develop and allows for flexibility never before seen in operating system's of it's kind, and provides an ideal platform for development of specialized embedded or custom systems tailored for the unique requirements of the users.

USAGE SCENARIOS

* Automotive applications (in-car entertainment systems, vehicle information systems, and more)
* Home electronics and entertainment (DVD players, TVs, music players, appliances, and more)
* Specialized computers (industrial computers, low-power devices, mini computers, and more)
* Customized systems (industrial automation, corporate applications, and more)

IGELLE DSV 1.0.0

Igelle DSV is a powerful graphical desktop operating system, available for download at no cost for Intel-compatible personal computers here at www.igelle.com. Minimum requirements to run this operating system are:

  • Pentium III processor, or higher
  • 256MB RAM, or higher
  • 1GB or more of hard drive storage (if installed)

Igelle DSV is supplied as a downloadable CD-image (ISO format), that can be burned on a compact disc for usage. It is a "Live CD", ie. it can be used on a computer directly from the CD without a need for installation for trying it out and testing, and can then be easily installed on a local hard drive storage.

Please also review our documentation. For community discussions on DSV, also see our forums.



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Saturday, February 27, 2010

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a mini distribution and live CD designed to run speedily on hardware with 256 MB of RAM.

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a mini distribution and live CD designed to run speedily on hardware with 256 MB of RAM. SliTaz uses BusyBox, a recent Linux kernel and GNU software.

It boots with Syslinux and provides more than 200 Linux commands, the lighttpd web server, SQLite database, rescue tools, IRC client, SSH client and server powered by Dropbear, X window system, JWM (Joe's Window Manager), gFTP, Geany IDE, Mozilla Firefox, AlsaPlayer, GParted, a sound file editor and more. The SliTaz ISO image fits on a less than 30 MB media and takes just 80 MB of hard disk space.


Updates (via Distrowatch):


SliTaz GNU/Linux Christophe Lincoln has announced the availability of a new development release of SliTaz GNU/Linux, a fast, minimalist distribution featuring the Openbox window manager and a custom package management tool: "The SliTaz team is pleased to announce the release of a new 'Cooking' CD image featuring over 2,600 packages. It contains Linux kernel 2.6.34 and was rebuilt using a new toolchain with glibc 2.11.2 and GCC 4.5.1. X.Org Server has been fully updated to 1.9.2. The live CD includes Midori, the DeaDBeeF audio player and many applications for daily use. Tazpkg and Tazctrlbox now support gettext translations and more UTF locales have been added. Many bug fixes, updates and improvements can also be found, a lot of work have been done these last 6 month."

Visit the project's news page to read the brief release announcement.

Download: slitaz-cooking.iso (32.0MB, MD5).




Recent releases:

• 2010-11-05: Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking 20101104
• 2010-03-28: Distribution Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux 3.0
• 2010-02-21: Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking 20100221
• 2009-11-05: Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking 20091104
• 2009-04-17: Distribution Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0
• 2009-02-28: Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking-20090228

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a mini distribution and live CD designed to run speedily on hardware with 256 MB of RAM. SliTaz uses BusyBox, a recent Linux kernel and GNU software. It boots with Syslinux and provides more than 200 Linux commands, the lighttpd web server, SQLite database, rescue tools, IRC client, SSH client and server powered by Dropbear, X window system, JWM (Joe's Window Manager), gFTP, Geany IDE, Mozilla Firefox, AlsaPlayer, GParted, a sound file editor and more. The SliTaz ISO image fits on a less than 30 MB media and takes just 80 MB of hard disk space.

Overview.
  • Root filesystem taking about 100 MB and ISO image less than 30 MB.
  • Ready to use Web server powered by LightTPD with CGI and PHP support.
  • Browse the Web with Mozilla Firefox or Retawq in text mode.
  • Sound support provided by Alsa mixer, audio player and CD ripper/encoder.
  • Chat, mail and FTP clients.
  • SSH client and server powered by Dropbear.
  • Database engine with SQLite.
  • Generate a LiveUSB device.
  • Tools to create, edit or burn CD or DVD images.
  • Elegent desktop with Openbox running on the top of Xvesa (X server).
  • Homemade graphical boxes to command line utilities.
  • 1400 packages easily installable from the mirror.
  • Active and friendly community.
This part of the site allows you to view all of the software packages available on the SliTaz mirror. The pages are automatically updated daily via a cron job. All packages are installable via the package manager Tazpkg using the GUI or the command tazpkg get-install pkgname.

Stable.

Stable packages Web interface: Stable packages

Raw Stable packages lists on the mirror: packages.list | packages.txt

Cooking.

Cooking packages Web interface: Cooking packages

Raw Cooking packages lists on the mirror: packages.list | packages.txt



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Sunday, February 21, 2010

GeeXboX is a free Linux distribution providing a media center software suite for personal computers.

GeeXboX is a full operating system, running under Linux and based on the excellent MPlayer.

No need of hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is a free software, created thanks to many open-source software.

This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX. You may wonder why you could have to boot on another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX plateforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones. It's now affordable to bring DivX to your home cinema, plugging this kind of computers directly to your TV. At the time of the first development release (December 2002), it was only able to play DivX movies, but for now, nearly every kind of media files can be played from GeeXboX.

An unofficial port of GeeXboX also runs on the Wii.

Update:

The second alpha build of GeeXboX 2.0, a Linux mini-distribution for Home Theatre PCs (HTPC) and media centres, is available for testing: "It has already been one month since 2.0-alpha1 release so here is alpha2.

This release fixes many bugs that have been encountered by our users on this first 2.x series preview: normalize LIRC configuration by providing generic binding for each and every remote control; initial port to ARM architecture; restoration of UPnP/DLNA feature with a brand new stack; restoration of internationalization support; upgrade of NVIDIA drivers - proprietary, legacy one and addition of nouveau; add Kernel Mode Settings (KMS) for ATI, Intel and NVIDIA drivers; upgrade to Linux kernel 2.6.33 kernel; fix live CD and win32 installers; fix OGG files playback issue....
"

Read the rest of the release announcement for further information.

Download (MD5): geexbox-2.0-alpha2-en.i386.eglibc.iso (43.0MB), geexbox-2.0-alpha2-en.x86_64.eglibc.iso (60.0MB).

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Recent releases:

• 2010-02-15: Development Release: GeeXboX 2.0 Alpha 1
• 2009-06-20: Distribution Release: GeeXboX 1.2.2
• 2009-02-01: Distribution Release: GeeXboX 1.2
• 2008-12-28: Development Release: GeeXboX 1.2 Beta 3
• 2008-12-14: Development Release: GeeXboX 1.2 Beta 2
• 2008-11-02: Development Release: GeeXboX 1.2 Beta 1

GeeXboX comes with a utility called generator, which allows the user to customize the GeeXboX discs. The following options are configurable:

* Include your movie(s).
* Add non-free extra codecs.
* Add non-free firmwares for your drivers.
* Add extra fonts for Asian users.
* Add extra themes.
* Configure the network settings.
* Configure audio related options.
* Configure video related options.
* Configure the remote control and receiver to be used.
* Configure an LCD display.
* Change theme, fonts and charset encoding.
* Choose the services to be started with GeeXboX (like UPnP and SHOUTcast).
* Modify MPlayer's startup options.

GeeXboX, as described from its website, is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution, it's a ready to boot operating system than works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software requirement. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the whole system being loaded in RAM.

Despite his tiny ISO image size, the distribution comes with a complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added. It supports playback of nearly any kind of audio/video and image files and all known codecs and containers are shipped in, allowing playing them through various physical supports, either being CD, DVD, HDD, LAN or Internet.

GeeXboX also comes with a complete toolchain that allows developers adding easily extra packages and features but that might also be used to give birth to many dedicated embedded Linux systems.



I downloaded GeeXboX 1.1 out of curiosity, and mainly because it is ranked among the top 50 in Distrowatch. You can download its latest version directly from here, and I promise that it won’t take long to completely finish the download. Anyway, so I got GeeXboX and then I tried and tested it via VMWare. Once the ISO was loaded, a boot menu appeared, and I pressed F1 to try other options. I opted to boot using the “install” parameter, but it failed because it didn’t found my SCSI VM disk. Although the installation fell short, I’m still quite amazed by just knowing that it is possible to install it on a hard drive or to an external USB storage device. There is even a clear installation tutorial that can be found here.


In a blink of an eye, I was taken to the GeeXboX’s plain and simple-looking desktop environment. The default desktop is very responsive as the system runs entirely on RAM. I also find it easy to use with its uncomplicated keyboard shortcuts for navigation. There’s a “help” option if you want some assistance or take a look at the useful commands, but I doubt if you will ever need it. Plus, if you have a supported infrared remote control, you can control the desktop at the comfort of your own couch, thanks to GeeXboX's LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) package.

GeeXboX can successfully play variety of media files like DVD, DivX, MP3, MP4, AVI, MPEG, 3GP and a lot more (A screenshot of GeeXboX playing DivX video file shown below taken from GeeXboX website). There is also a TV-out option if you want to watch videos on the bigger television screen provided that you have an appropriate graphics card. It is said that GeeXboX also supports several TV tuner cards, Wi-fi cards, and it can even stream content through the internet.

GeeXBoX is really worth a try, and I will recommend it to anyone who wants a quick, lightweight and easy-to-use multimedia OS. Bottom line, if you are a multimedia enthusiast but has a really old computer hardware, forget about the obscure and resource-hungry Windows Media Center operating system. Use this 8MB “wonder” Linux instead.


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