Intel released a new driver compatible with GMA500 (a.k.a. poulsbo, psb) called EMGD, i tried it for you (and for me :-D)
Next Version To-Do List
It's time to think about PixieLive-1.1, there are some bugfixes and some improvement to do...
Tor: anonymity online (for PixieLive)
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
First Game for PixieLive: Battle for Wesnoth
Battle for Wesnoth 1.8.2 is now available for download (approx. 300MB) as they say on the site... The Battle for Wesnoth is a Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim […]
The R Project for Statistical Computing is Here!!!
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
Texmaker and LyX, two advanced LaTeX editors
LaTeX is Here!!!
As promised, this is the LaTeX package for PixieLive, with a tiny LaTeX editor (winefish, if you don't like emacs or gvim) and aspell for spellcheck.
Compositing on GMA500, desktop smoothness!!!
A small update which enable compositing on your Gnome Desktop, your windows has never been so smooth!
You will notice a big improvement for your eyes.
It's tested on gma500, may work on other cards...
MindMapping for Free, Freeplane released
Free mindmapping software for PixieLive
(Save Freeplane Settings included)
Google Chrome is Here
New package, asked from Ciccio37, Chromium-6 is here!!!
Probably the google browser will be useful for many users due to the high speed, specially on google services.
Fix for ext installation
This is a fix to allow PixieLive to automatically save StickyNotes and to link Documents even if you are booting from an ext(2,3,4) partition
Some New Applications
Some new Applications for your PixieLive, mostly editors for programmers, video drivers and video players with hardware acceleration!!!
How to install it on your HDD
If you don't like to use PixieLive from the SD card (i.e. because you want your SD slot free) and you don't want to use it from your USB pendrive, you can run it from any partition on your HDD, you just need a partition, and GRUB.
First Update (nautilus preview disabled):
Nautilus preview feature has been disabled by default to improve performance on netbooks, download after the jump...
PixieLive-1.0 is Live!
The first stable version of PixieLive has been released!
Download via BitTorrent: PixieLive-1.0
Direct Download: PixieLive-1.0
Gentoo Linux + linux-live.org based live ditribution for GMA500 (aka poulsbo, psb) equipped netbooks.
It works on other kinds of hardware anyway, most of kernel drivers are compiled in.Key Features:
- boot live from USB or SD/MMC
- persistent changes
- Custom Settings Saver
- Gnome-2.30
- LCD brightness control
- Processor Power states (Energy saving)
- Wicd (Easy Network configuration)
- Bluetooth
- OpenOffice (Office Suite)
- Gimp (graphic editor)
- Inkscape (vectorial graphic)
- GTKam (digital camera management)
- Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser)
- MPlayer (Media Player)
- Skype (VoIP / IM client)
- Pidgin (IM Client)
- Deluge (bittorrent client)
- Filezilla (FTP Client)
- Samba support
- MidnighCommander (CommandLine FileManager)
- GParted (Partition Manager)
- partimage (partition backup utility)
- Luks encrypted disks support
- Aircrack-ng
- Wireshark
- Zenmap
- Suspension and Hibernation
- Size < 1GB (good for PoorMan Pendrive | SD) r
pixielive password: pixielive
to make the disk bootable you can run:
boot/bootinst.bat (DOS/Windows)
boot/bootinst.sh (GNU/Linux)