PixieLive-1.0
Download via BitTorrent: PixieLive-1.0.torrent
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)
pixielive password: pixielive
to make the disk bootable you can run:
boot/bootinst.bat (DOS/Windows)
boot/bootinst.sh (GNU/Linux)
Notes:
- Sticky Notes and Firefox Settings & Bookmarks are automatically saved on your boot device, you don't need to save them manually
- For security reasons your firefox passwords will not be saved on your BootDevice
- if plan to use it on a computer without frequency scaling capabilities and/or Brightness Manager move the module aac-notebookpower-applets.lzm 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)
- For boot on Sony Vaio P you need to add at boot "mem=1900MB" (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) (thanks to electrodacus).
- You can find some updates here
- and some ScreenShots here
Published on Friday, November 26 2010 by Christian Lorandi
Comments
It is ironical that the best Slax derivative I have tried so far is based on Gentoo.
PixieLive rulez!