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29 May 2012

Snowlinux is a set of Linux distributions based on Debian's latest stable release and featuring four different desktop environments.

snowlinux_gnomeSnowlinux is a set of Linux distributions based on Debian's latest stable release and featuring four different desktop environments - GNOME, KDE, LXDE and Xfce. It aims to be user-friendly, incorporating many useful tweaks and carefully selected software applications. The project also develops a separate, Ubuntu-based edition featuring the MATE (a GNOME 2 fork) desktop.

Due drastic changes with Gnome 3 and Unity, Snowlinux is keeping Gnome 2. Snowlinux 2 "Ice" comes with the GTK theme Snowlinux-Metal-Theme, the Icon set was set to Snowlinux-Metal-Theme-Icons and the system font is "Ubuntu" by default. Also present in this edition is an improved live-installer which detects country, offers keyboard variants and uses UUID in fstab.

It has installed a firewall called gufw. Apturl was ported from Ubuntu to Debian and it was made functional. To improve the difference between user and root terminal the terminal colors were introduced. To be more out-of-the-box OpenJDK 6 Java has been made availble in the default installation. Snowlinux 2 "Ice" comes with chromium-browser, icedove, rhythmbox, shotwell.
Snowlinux 2 "Ice".

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New features:
    Improved installer (keyboard variants, UUID in fstab)
    contrib, non-free, debian-multimedia repository
    Firewall
    Apturl
    Terminal colors
    Open as administrator
    Open in terminal
    OpenJDK 6 Java
    Updated software and packages
    Better software selection
    Improved speed and response
    New look and feel
    System improvements

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Changes since RC:
    Software Center loading now.
    contrib, non-free, debian-multimedia repository
    Rhythmbox replaces Banshee.

Upstream information:
Snowlinux 2 "Ice" is based upon Linux Debian 6 "Squeeze" Stable. It comes with the long-term-support (LTS) Linux kernel 2.6.32 and Gnnome 2.30 which were made available upstream. It has installed chromium-browser, icedove, rhythmbox and shotwell by default.

Life cycle:
Snowlinux 2 "Ice" is supported until Februar 2014.

Compatibility with Debian:
Snowlinux 2 "Ice" is 100 % compatible with Debian's Repository.

System requirements:
    x86-CPU
    256 MB memory
    2 GB free disk space
    Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
    CD-ROM drive or USB port

Download:
32-bit
64-bit

Snowlinux 2 "Ice" XFCE.
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Due drastic changes with Gnome 3 and Unity, XFCE is growing more and more up. XFCE is quite similar to the most popular Desktop environment Gnome 2 and offers an alternative for all former Gnome 2 users. This is one of the reason why Snowlinux XFCE got so much new features and improvements. It should not lack some features and functions which are available in the main edition. We are trying to let XFCE act like Gnome 2 and to offer an alternative for all former Gnome 2 users.
Snowlinux 2 "Ice" XFCE comes by default with the GTK theme Snowlinux-Metal-Theme and the Icon set was set to Snowlinux-Metal-Theme-Icons system font is "Ubuntu". Also present in this edition is an improved live-installer which detects country, offers keyboard variants and uses UUID in fstab. It has been installed a firewall called gufw. Apturl was ported from Ubuntu to Debian and it was made functional. To improve the difference between user and root terminal the terminal colors were introduced. To be more out-of-the-box OpenJDK 6 Java has been made availble in the default installation. Snowlinux 2 "Ice" XFCE comes with chromium-browser, icedove, banshee, shotwell.

New features:
  • Snowlinux-Metal-Theme
  • Snowlinux-Metal-Icons
  • Improved installer (keyboard variants, UUID in fstab)
  • contrib, non-free, debian-multimedia repository
  • Firewall
  • Apturl
  • Terminal colors
  • OpenJDK 6 Java
  • Updated software and packages
  • Better software selection
  • Improved speed and response
  • New look and feel
  • System improvements
Changes since RC:
  • Snowlinux-Metal-Theme loading now.
  • Network-Manager-Gnome replaces WICD.
Upstream information:
Snowlinux 2 "Ice" is based upon Linux Debian 6 "Squeeze" Stable. It comes with the long-term-support (LTS) Linux kernel 2.6.32 and XFCE 4.6.2 which were made available upstream. It has installed chromium-browser, icedove, banshee and shotwell by default.
Life cycle:
Snowlinux 2 "Ice" is supported until Februar 2014.
Compatibility with Debian:
Snowlinux "Ice" is 100 % compatible with Debian's Repository.
Quick Note:
  • If you get a keyring error please install debian-multimedia-keyring.
System requirements:
  • x86-CPU
  • 256 MB memory
  • 2 GB free disk space
  • Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
  • CD-ROM drive or USB port

Download:
32-bit
64-bit

Updates:
Snowlinux
Lars Torben Kremer has announced the release of Snowlinux 2, a Debian-based desktop distribution and live CD with GNOME 2: "The team is proud to announce the release of Snowlinux 2 'Ice'. Due drastic changes with GNOME 3 and Unity, Snowlinux 2 'Ice' is keeping GNOME 2. It comes with a GTK+ theme and icon set called Snowlinux Metal and the system font is 'Ubuntu' by default. Also present in this version is an improved live installer which detects country, offers keyboard variants and uses UUID in fstab. It has a firewall called gufw. Apturl was ported from Ubuntu to Debian and it was made functional. To improve the difference between user and root terminal, terminal colors were introduced. To be more out-of-the-box OpenJDK 6 Java was made available in the default installation." See the remainder of the release announcement for more information and a screenshot. Download (MD5): snowlinux-2-ice-i386.iso (695MB), snowlinux-2-ice-amd64.iso (702MB).

Recent Related News:
• 2012-04-21: Distribution Release: Snowlinux 2
• 2012-04-10: Distribution Release: Snowlinux 2 "LXDE", "Xfce"
• 2012-02-06: Development Release: Snowlinux 2 RC


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