PixieLive - Tag - Live2019-09-05T20:58:06+02:00Christian Lorandiurn:md5:420041d3af3b66a087b22e9b14e3eb83DotclearPixieLive4 Releasedurn:md5:4a004cc748ed3a41a9cdc2d5a1c99c0c2013-11-08T01:25:00+01:002019-09-05T21:58:06+02:00Christian LorandiRelease<p>After a long time, PixieLive is back with a brand new release including a new Boot Menu, updated programs, and some new entries.</p>
<h4>The software selection can be completely tuned by removing the unneeded packages, ranging from 500 MB to about 2000 MB as explained <a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/index.php?post/2013/04/11/PixieLive3-RC1%2C-modules-cutomization">Here</a></h4> <h3>Download: <a href="http://pixielive.org/PixieLive4.iso">PixieLive4.iso</a></h3>
<h4></h4>
<p>Highlights:</p>
<ul>
<li><del> <a href="https://copy.com?r=tEP9h1">Copy.com</a> replaced drobox (15 GB of free online storage, +5 GB if you register using this <a href="https://copy.com?r=tEP9h1">Link</a>)</del></li>
<li>As usual Pixielive supports<strong> GMA500</strong> (a.k.a <strong>Poulsbo</strong>) graphic cards with both EMGD 1.18 binary drivers and the free modesetting (gma500_gfx)</li>
<li><strong>nVidia Optimus</strong> supported out of the box</li>
<li>Claws-mail (lightweight email client which saves automatically on you pendrive)</li>
<li>Multi-User live system</li>
<li>Settings saved in several different ways (if the boot device is writable):
<ul>
<li>some directories in the $HOME are linked in the PixieLive4 directory on your pendrive (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Templates, Videos)</li>
<li>on demand save settings (for normal settings, as usual in PixieLive)</li>
<li>live changes, for data and settings which change frequently (email <a href="http://pixielive.org/index.php?post/2013/10/21/thunderbird and claws-mail" title="thunderbird and claws-mail">thunderbird and claws-mail</a>, copy.com <a href="http://pixielive.org/index.php?post/2013/10/21/replacing dropbox, it syncs on your pendrive" title="replacing dropbox, it syncs on your pendrive">replacing dropbox, it syncs on your...</a>, sticky notes, calibre, torrents, calendar <a href="http://pixielive.org/index.php?post/2013/10/21/osmo" title="osmo">osmo</a>, wifi networks)</li>
<li>encrypted settings (for sensitive data <a href="http://pixielive.org/index.php?post/2013/10/21/browsers, email, copy.com settings, pidgin, skype, filezilla, wifi passwords" title="browsers, email, copy.com settings, pidgin, skype, filezilla, wifi passwords">browsers, email, copy.com settings,...</a>)</li>
<li>encrypted storage (~/Private directory encrypted, so you can safely save your sensitive documents on you pendrive)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h4>Cheatcodes (to be specified on the bootloader "blue" screen):</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>noload=packages,list</strong> --> do not load the specified .lzm modules (e.g. noload=emgd -> do not load emgd module)</li>
<li><strong>Xres=1024x768</strong> --> change the default X resolution (for EMGD drivers only)</li>
<li><strong>changes=DIRECTORY</strong> --> save all the changes into a target directory instead of PixieLive4 (using multiple changes directories you can create a multi-user system)</li>
</ul>
<h4>As usual PixieLive comes with a big software selection:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Desktop environments:
<ul>
<li>Gnome-2.32 (default)</li>
<li>Enlightenment-0.17</li>
<li>Openbox</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Development:
<ul>
<li>arduino</li>
<li>gcc</li>
<li>qt-creator</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Games:
<ul>
<li>Crack-attack</li>
<li>Battle for Wesnoth</li>
<li>Hedgewars (Worms-like game)</li>
<li>ZSnes (SNES emulator)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Graphics:
<ul>
<li>Darktable (RAW images editor)</li>
<li>GIMP-2.8 (Image editor)</li>
<li>Geeqie (Image Viewer)</li>
<li>Gtkam (Download your images from the camera)</li>
<li>Inkscape (Vector graphics editor)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Editors:
<ul>
<li>gVim</li>
<li>Emacs</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Office:
<ul>
<li>Calibre (E-book library manager)</li>
<li>Freemind (Mind-mapping software)</li>
<li>LibreOffice-4 (Free office suite)</li>
<li>LaTeX</li>
<li>Lyx (Frontend for LaTeX)</li>
<li>Osmo (Personal Organizer)</li>
<li>Scribus (Professional Desktop Publishing, CMYK for offset printing)</li>
<li>Texmaker (LaTeX development Environment)</li>
<li>TeXstudio (LaTeX development Environment)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Internet:
<ul>
<li>Chromium (Open-source version of Google Chrome web browser)</li>
<li>Claws-mail (Mail reader)</li>
<li>Copy.com (Online files syncing)</li>
<li>Deluge (BitTorrent client)</li>
<li>FileZilla (FTP client)</li>
<li>Firefox (Web broswer, for license problems called Aurora in PixieLive)</li>
<li>Liferea (News, feed RSS reader)</li>
<li>Opera (Web browser)</li>
<li>Pidgin (Chat and istant messaging)</li>
<li>Skype (Chat, instant</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>messaging and VoIP client)
<br />**Thunderbird (Mail and news reader, for license problems called EarlyBird in PixieLive)</p>
<ul>
<li>Multimedia:
<ul>
<li>Audacity (Record and edit audio files)</li>
<li>Cheese (Take photos and videos with the webcam)</li>
<li>Mplayer (Media player)</li>
<li>Rhythmbox (Audio player and organizer)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Network Analysis:
<ul>
<li>Aircrack-ng</li>
<li>Ettercap</li>
<li>Kismet</li>
<li>Metasploit</li>
<li>Nmap</li>
<li>Reaver</li>
<li>Zenmap</li>
<li>Wireshark</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Academic/Statistic Analisys:
<ul>
<li>Gnuplot</li>
<li>Octave</li>
<li>R</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Various:
<ul>
<li>Docky (The finest dock no money can buy)</li>
<li>Wine (For windows programs)</li>
<li>GParted (Partition manager)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h4>Notes:</h4>
<ul>
<li>To <strong>install it to an USB pendrive</strong> follow <a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/index.php?pages/How-To-install-on-a-USB-Pendrive">this guide</a></li>
<li>You can change users passwords and save them with the "Save System Settings (/etc)" program
<ul>
<li>Default user:
<ul>
<li>Username: <strong>pixielive</strong></li>
<li>Password: <strong>pixielive</strong></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Default root access:
<ul>
<li>Username: <strong>root</strong></li>
<li>Password: <strong>toor</strong></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h4>Tanks:</h4>
<p><del>*If you want to tank me for my work, registering a free account at <a href="https://copy.com/?r=tEP9h1">https://copy.com/?r=tEP9h1</a> you will obtain 20GB of free online storage and they will add 5GB to my account.</del>
<del>*You should use the client once (the one provided with PixieLive4 is ok, or download and install it from the website) to obtain the 5GB bonus.</del></p>
<h3>Download: <a href="http://pixielive.org/PixieLive4.iso">PixieLive4.iso</a></h3>
<h4>Disclamer:</h4>
<ul>
<li>I decline any liability for persons, property damage or especially direct, indirect, immediate or subsequent pecuniary loss which may result from the use of PixieLive4. Especially excluded is liability for hardware damage, loss of data, alteration of data, or downtime.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/public/bootloader.png" title="bootloader.png"><img src="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/public/bootloader.png" alt="bootloader.png" title="bootloader.png, Nov 2013" /></a><a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/public/Links.png" title="Links.png"><img src="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/public/Links.png" alt="Links.png" title="Links.png, Nov 2013" /></a>
<a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/public/SaveSettings.png" title="SaveSettings.png"><img src="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/public/SaveSettings.png" alt="SaveSettings.png" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" title="SaveSettings.png, Nov 2013" /></a></p>PixieLive3RC1 Releasedurn:md5:0c0344fb8ea8c4ecc0d94b31477f0ae92013-04-08T22:56:00+02:002013-11-15T07:52:06+01:00Christian LorandiReleasedevelopmentEMGDGMA500Livenetbookpoulsbopsbupdate<p>After a long time, PixieLive is back with a brand new release candidate.
Most of the requested features were added (Chinese websites support, docky, rhythmbox, calibre, various network drivers).
As usual the gma500 (a.k.a. poulsbo, psb) is supported (using the emgd-1.16 driver)</p>
<h3>Highlights:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Settings saved in several different ways (if the boot device is writable):
<ul>
<li>some directories in the $HOME are mounted in the PixieLive3RC1 directory on your pendrive (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Templates, Videos)</li>
<li>on demand save
settings (for normal settings, as usual in PixieLive)</li>
<li>live changes, for data and settings which change frequently (email {yes we have thunderbird}, dropbox {yes, it saves on your pendrive}, sticky notes, calibre, torrents, calendar {osmo}, wifi networks)</li>
<li>encrypted settings (for sensitive data {browsers, email, dropbox settings, pidgin, skype, filezilla, wifi passwords})</li>
<li>encrypted storage (~/Private directory encrypted, so you can safely save your sensitive documents on you pendrive)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Dropbox (which saves automatically on you pendrive)</li>
<li>Thunderbird (which saves automatically on you pendrive)</li>
<li>Enlightenment (ultra light desktop environment)</li>
</ul> <p>[PixieLive3-RC1.torrent!!!Cheatcodes (to be specified on the bootloader "blue" screen):</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>fulllive</strong> -> disable every kind of persistent changes, nothing will be saved on your pendrive</li>
<li><strong>nobind</strong> -> doesn't bind mount the data directories from the Pendrive to the $HOME</li>
<li><strong>nochanges</strong> -> doesn't use the settings saved "on-demand"</li>
<li><strong>nolivechanges</strong> -> doesn't use the live_changes (settings saved automatically, for email, sticky notes, calendar, dropbox and calibre)</li>
<li><strong>encfs</strong> -> activate the encryption for sensitive data (changes, live_changes and directory Private), it will ask for a password</li>
<li><strong>unsafepasswords</strong> -> allow the save-settings script to save unencrypted sensitive data (i.e. even if encfs
is not used)</li>
<li><strong>noload=packages,list</strong> > do not load the specified .lzm modules (e.g. noload=emgd -> do not load emgd-1.16.lzm module, the gma500_gfx kernel module will be used instead, this coud work also for gma600)</li>
<li><strong>keepxorgconf</strong> -> avoid the system to replace the xorg.conf (if you saved it) when you using the emgd driver</li>
<li><strong>zram</strong> -> enable zram (ram compression system) system</li>
<li><strong>X=(no,e17,openbox,gnome,default)</strong> -> select the default desktop manager ("no" means X will not be started)</li>
<li><strong>Xemgd=1024x768</strong> -> change the default resolution for the emgd driver</li>
</ul>
<h3>As usual PixieLive comes with a big software selection:</h3>
<h4>Desktop environments:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Gnome-2.32.1 (default, with openbox as windows manager)</li>
<li>Enlightenment-0.17.1</li>
<li>Openbox</li>
</ul>
<h4>Development:</h4>
<ul>
<li>gcc</li>
<li>qt-creator</li>
</ul>
n<h4>Games:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Crack-attack</li>
<li>Battle for Wesnoth</li>
<li>ZSnes (SNES emulator)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Graphics:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Darktable (RAW images editor)</li>
<li>GIMP (Image editor)</li>
<li>Geeqie (Image Viewer)</li>
<li>Gtkam (Download your images from the camera)</li>
<li>Inkscape (Vector graphics editor)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Editors:</h4>
<ul>
<li>gVim</li>
<li>Emacs</li>
</ul>
<h4>Office:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Calibre (E-book library manager)</li>
<li>Freemind (Mind-mapping software)</li>
<li>LibreOffice (Free office suite)</li>
<li>LaTeX</li>
<li>Lyx (Frontend for LaTeX)</li>
<li>Osmo (Personal Organizer)</li>
<li>Texmaker (LaTeX development Environment)</li>
<li>TeXstudio (LaTeX development Environment)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Internet:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Chromium (Open-source version of Google Chrome web browser)</li>
<li>Deluge (BitTorrent client)</li>
<li>Dropbox (Online files syncing)</li>
<li>FileZilla (FTP client)</li>
<li>Firefox (Web broswer, for license problems
called Aurora in PixieLive)</li>
<li>Liferea (News, feed RSS reader)</li>
<li>Opera (Web browser)</li>
<li>Pidgin (Chat and istant messaging)</li>
<li>Skype (Chat, instant messaging and VoIP client)</li>
<li>Thunderbird (Mail and news reader, for license problems called EarlyBird in PixieLive)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Multimedia:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Audacity (Record and edit audio files)</li>
<li>Cheese (Take photos and videos with the webcam)</li>
<li>Mplayer (Media player)</li>
<li>Rhythmbox (Audio player and organizer)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Network Analysis:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Aircrack-ng</li>
<li>Ettercap</li>
<li>Kismet</li>
<li>Metasploit</li>
<li>Nmap</li>
<li>Zenmap</li>
<li>Wireshark</li>
</ul>
<h4>Various:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Docky (The finest dock no money can buy)</li>
<li>Wine (For windows programs)</li>
<li>GParted (Partition manager)</li>
<li>xvkbd (Virtual Keyboard for touchscreens)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known bugs:</h3>
<ul>
<li>RadeonHD cards are known to have some problems loading, if you
can solve them, please let me know</li>
</ul>
<h3>Notes:</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you want to try enlightenment you will have to logout from gnome, select enlightenment as session type, and login or use the X=e17 cheatcode</li>
<li>You can change users passwords and save them with the "Save System Settings (/etc)" program
<ul>
<li>Default Username: pixielive Password: pixielive</li>
<li>Default root Username: root Password: toor</li>
</ul></li>
<li>If you want to test it on a GMA600 try filtering the emgd package with the cheatcode noload=emgd</li>
</ul>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<ul>
<li>To install on a USB pendrive just:
<ul>
<li>extract the content of the iso on the pendrive</li>
<li>DO NOT RENAME the PixieLive3RC1 directory</li>
<li>change directory to PixieLive3RC1/boot</li>
<li>run the script ./bootinst.sh</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h3>Disclamer:</h3>
<ul>
<li>This is a Release Candidate, it's not supposed to be 100% stable... I decline any liability for persons, property
damage or especially direct, indirect, immediate or subsequent pecuniary loss which may result from the use of PixieLive3RC1. Especially excluded is liability for hardware damage, loss of data, alteration of data, or downtime.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Download Torrent</h3>
<p><a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/public/PixieLive3-RC1.torrent">PixieLive3-RC1.torrent</a></p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>If this software helped you enough, feel free to donate.</p>PixieLive-3-alphaurn:md5:7a697082928f2e445fe9b9975af6809e2012-02-23T09:15:00+01:002013-11-15T07:52:11+01:00Christian LorandiReleasedevelopmentEMGDGMA500Liveupdate<p>Since many of you asked for it, the alpha is here!</p> <h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>EMGD-1.10</li>
<li>kernel-3.2.5</li>
<li>gPodder</li>
<li>Rhythmbox</li>
<li>every program updated</li>
<li>most of the standard features of PixieLive-2</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known bugs:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Some warnings shown during boot and shutdown, had no time to correct them, most of them are due to the change to openrc</li>
<li>No suspend to disk (hibernation) because tuxonice is not ready for kernel-3.2.5</li>
<li>Some hardware support could be missing</li>
</ul>
<h3>Help is welcome:</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you know how to fix some problems, mainly boot and shutdown errors please let me know, i will have really few time for the next two
months</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have hardware which should be included in the kernel let me know, i will need the output of "lspci; lspci -n; lsusb".
It would be even better if you can tell me what to enable in the kernel configuration.</p>
<h4>Alpha means under development, let me know how stable it is :-D</h4>
<h2>Download: <a href="http://pixielive.org/PixieLive3-alpha.tar">PixieLive3-alpha.tar</a></h2>
<p>md5sum: e053cb8812b09190ccec5c1869c1051b *PixieLive-3-alpha.tar</p>PixieLive-2.0 Released!!!urn:md5:9197b97fdfc32a5d9f86dda42145cc9d2011-05-18T18:31:00+02:002013-12-02T09:31:57+01:00Christian LorandiReleaseGMA500Livenetbookpoulsbopsb<h5>Finally it's out! Fell free to download it</h5>
<h2>Gentoo Linux + linux-live.org based live ditribution for GMA500 (aka poulsbo, psb) equipped netbooks.</h2>
<p>It works on other kinds of hardware anyway, most of kernel drivers are compiled in.</p> <h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Most Programs as separated modules</li>
<li>Network Manager with VPN support</li>
n<li>Bradcom Wireless Drivers</li>
<li>LibreOffice</li>
<li>BlueTooth modem support</li>
<li>USB 3G modem support</li>
<li>TOR (optional)</li>
</ul>
<p>included programs:</p>
<ul>
<li>adobe-flash-10.2.152.27</li>
<li>audacity-1.3.12</li>
<li>chromium-10.0.648.133</li>
<li>deluge-1.3.1</li>
<li>ffmpeg-0.6_p25767</li>
<li>filezilla-3.3.4.1</li>
<li>firefox-3.6.15</li>
<li>gimp-2.6.11-r1</li>
<li>gnome-mplayer-1.0.0</li>
<li>gnome-utils-2.32.0-r1</li>
<li>gparted-0.5.2</li>
<li>gqview-2.1.5</li>
<li>gtkam-0.1.16.1</li>
<li>imagemagick-6.6.5.6</li>
<li>inkscape-0.48.0</li>
<li>libreoffice-3.3.1</li>
<li>libva-0.31.1_p4</li>
<li>liferea-1.6.5</li>
<li>mplayer-vaapi</li>
<li>openbox-3.4.11.2</li>
<li>opera-11.01.1190</li>
<li>osmo-0.2.10</li>
<li>pidgin-2.7.11</li>
<li>skype-2.1.0.81</li>
<li>wine-1.2.1</li>
<li>wireless-security-software</li>
</ul>
<p>How-Tos:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/index.php?pages/How-To-install-on-a-USB-Pendrive">How-To install on USB
Pendrive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/index.php?pages/How-to-install-on-HDD">How to install on HDD</a></li>
</ul>
<p>root password: toor</p>
<p>download: <a href="http://pixielive.org/PixieLive-2.0.torrent">PixieLive-2.0.torrent</a></p>
<p><a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/index.php?pages/Additional-Applications-2.0">Additional Applications 2.0</a></p>PixieLive-1.0 is Live!urn:md5:8ba415349f047ff08ed8217c566cd5722010-08-23T21:17:00+02:002011-04-17T08:16:19+02:00Christian LorandiReleaseGMA500Livenetbookpoulsbopsb<p>The first stable version of <strong>PixieLive</strong> has been released!</p>
<p><strong>Download via BitTorrent</strong>: <a href="http://pixielive.org/PixieLive-1.0.torrent">PixieLive-1.0</a></p>
<p>
Direct Download: <a href="http://pixielive.org/PixieLive-1.0.tar">PixieLive-1.0</a></p>
<h3>
Gentoo Linux + linux-live.org based live ditribution for GMA500 (aka poulsbo,
psb)
equipped netbooks.
</h3>
It works on other kinds of hardware anyway, most of kernel drivers are compiled in.
<br />
<p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p>
<ul><li>boot live from USB or SD/MMC</li>
<li>persistent changes</li>
<li>Custom Settings Saver</li>
</ul>
<ul><li>
Gnome-2.30</li>
<li>
LCD brightness control</li>
<li>
Processor Power states <em>(Energy saving)</em></li>
<li>
Wicd
<em>(Easy Network configuration)</em></li>
<li>
Bluetooth</li>
</ul>
<ul><li>
OpenOffice <em>(Office Suite)</em></li>
<li>Gimp <em>(graphic editor)</em></li>
<li>Inkscape <em>(vectorial graphic)</em></li>
<li>GTKam <em>(digital camera management)</em></li>
</ul>
<ul><li>Mozilla Firefox <em>(Web Browser)</em></li>
<li>MPlayer <em>(Media Player)</em></li>
</ul>
<ul><li>Skype <em>(VoIP / IM client)</em></li>
<li>Pidgin <em>(IM Client)</em></li>
<li>Deluge <em>(bittorrent client)</em></li>
<li>Filezilla
<em>(FTP Client)</em></li>
<li>Samba support</li>
</ul>
<ul><li>MidnighCommander <em>(CommandLine FileManager)</em></li>
<li>GParted <em>(Partition Manager)</em></li>
<li>partimage <em>(partition backup utility)</em></li>
<li>Luks encrypted disks support</li>
</ul>
<ul><li>Aircrack-ng</li>
<li>Wireshark</li>
<li>Zenmap</li>
</ul>
<ul><li>Suspension and Hibernation</li>
<li>Size < 1GB (good for PoorMan Pendrive | SD)</li>
r
</ul>
root password: toor<br />pixielive password: pixielive<br /><br /><strong>to make the disk bootable</strong> you can run:<br />boot/bootinst.bat (DOS/Windows)<br />boot/bootinst.sh (GNU/Linux)<br /> <p> Notes:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Sticky Notes</strong> and <strong>Firefox</strong> Settings & <strong>Bookmarks are automatically saved</strong> on your boot device, you don't need to save them manually</li>
<li>For security reasons your firefox passwords will not be saved on your BootDevice</li>
<li>if plan to use it on a computer without frequency scaling capabilities and/or Brightness Manager move the module <strong>aac-notebookpower-applets.lzm </strong>from PixieLive/modules to PixieLive/optionals (or you will get an error message once you start gnome,
it's not harmful, just annoying if you use it frequently)</li>
<li>For boot on<strong> Sony Vaio P</strong> you need to add at boot "<strong>mem=1900MB</strong>" (press -TAB- and edit the line in the blue screen of the boot loader) if you have 2GB RAM version, or it will not work (scale the 1900 appropriately if you have a different quantity of RAM) <em>(thanks to electrodacus)</em>.</li>
</ul>
<br /><ul><li>You can find some updates <a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/index.php?post/2010/08/25/First-Update-%28nautilus-preview-removal%29%3A">here</a></li>
</ul>
<ul><li>and some ScreenShots <a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/index.php?pages/ScreenShots">here</a> </li>
</ul>