Some New Applications
By Christian Lorandi on Friday, August 27 2010, 16:03 - Application - Permalink
Some new Applications for your PixieLive, mostly editors for programmers, video drivers and video players with hardware acceleration!!!
Just put the lzm file you download in your PixieLive/modules (or PixieLive/optional) directory, and reboot.
(pay attention, if you put it in the optional directory you have to load it at boot with load=packagename cheatcode or double clicking it in nautilus)
Debuggers:
Graphics Drivers:
- nvidia-drivers-195.36.24: Proprietary nvidia drivers
Media Players:
- MPlayer-vaapi-20100713: mplayer with vaapi acceleration, useful for Full HD videos and to lower CPU usage during video playback
System Monitors:
Text Editors:
Web Browsers:
- Opera-10.60: another good browser, alternative to Firefox
more applications are planned (i.e. apache, php, mysql, a 10W consuming server is soooo sexy ;) )
comment if you have special request ;)
Comments
i have special request :-)
Tor, Vidalia and some "privacy" application (crypt , decrypt , secure files delete....etc)
We have repository for reference ? Slax ? Gentoo ?
thanks
yes, I use Gentoo repository :-)
i used ubuntu in the past and i would to try pixielive but i don't know how to install new apps (like chrome),i don't know gentoo, as i can see there's not a packet manager like apt or synaptic...
Is there a wiki for this?
Thanks
@ciccio37:
in gentoo there is a package manager, named portage, but it's not exactly a package manager, it's a system which compile every package from sources, so it's not good for a live distro, specially if it's running on a netbook, it would be difficult to save them for use after reboot.
I can make packages for you, and you should just copy them in you modules directory, i will make chrome package as soon as possible
regards, Christian
#Cicco37:
enjoy Chromium-6
The package like feature is really nice. Its like the mac os. Where applications comes in package form. Just drag it in and presto it runs, in this case is just copy in into the modules folders and it runs. Only problem is cant really install any available linux app that i want to use. Unless maybe if i know how to use portage. Is it hard to diy?
@pixel:
yes it's a little bit hard to use it on a live distro, the problem is to save it when you reboot , probably it's simpler if you just ask me to do a package, so everyone else can use it, what do you need?
Is it possible to install a java based program in pixielive?
Anyway there a program called Audacity.
Its a very good sound editing program which many people are using and which will be a good addition.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
@Pixel:
java is already in pixielive. so theoretically yes (freeplane is java and works perfectly), i will make an audacity package as soon as possible
@Pixel:
audacity ready for download here, enjoy
Christian, can your make a CUPS module for PixieLive? There is a SLAX module of CUPS 1.3.9-1 at http://www.slax.org/modules.php?act...
@Steve99:
the slax one is not helping, it's based on slackware, PixieLive is based on gentoo... anyway, here is cups for you :-)
enjoy
Hi Christian, I'm going to try this OS, but I need to know:
- Can Pixie save files on my HD?
- Can Pixie be used by a programmer?
I have an ASUS EeePC 1201HA, and I use this netbook to program something basic in Java.
- Can I make packages for Pixie?
If I can`t, can you make NetBeans, Eclipse and MonoDevelop for Pixie? Actualy I just need, for now, NetBeans.
If I can, how can I do that? =)
I want to help with Pixie, but I can`t donate (poor guy), let me know how to help you. =)
I don't know a lot of Linux Kernel, but I can make program packages. =)
Congratulations and success.
See You,
Alexandre Gueths.
@Alexandre Gueths:
- of course
- it can, gcc is already there, but everything can be installed
- to make packages is a little complicated, but if you have enough patience you can (for simple packages is quite simple, for the more complicated could be a little messy, but if you are a programmer there should be no problems)
- anyway, i will try make those packages for you, packages with java inside are a mess, but if i won't be able to do it, i will make a special version of PixieLive, with all the java stuff inside (not as separated module) only for you
- If you want to help and know how to program using GTK or in bash with gtkdialog, you could write some configuration GUIs that would be useful (i want to create a multi user system, a GUI to config the automatic link creation on the desktop, and a GUI to
configure bootloader settings)
regards, Christian@Christian
Thanks for your help. I`ll try to learn about making packages. =)
Don`t worry about this special version, I have another OS installed that have those programs. I can wait until I learn how to create those packages. =D
I want to made some packages to PixieLive =)
Maybe create a language pack...
See you, Alexandre
hi!
is it possible to make portage/emerge working? could you guide me with that? I want to put PixieLive on my HDD and I need to install grub - this would be much easier with emerge I guess. Apart from that it would be nice to have Pixie as full-fledged OS.
thanks in advance
and many thanks for building this great distro!
@asndo:
just extract a portage snapshot into the /usr/portage directory, that's all what you need
@Christian Lorandi
thank you for your prompt answer.
I'm a newbie. I do not know what is meant by "a portage snapshot". Could you provide me more details? I've never used a gentoo-based system before, just *buntus and mandriva. What should I extract exactly and how to get it?
thanks in advance.
@asndo:
messing up with the gentoo system is not for newbies, there are no GUIs, no wizards, or similar, you can find a lot of documentation on the gentoo website, is you have a lot of time to spend on gentoo.
I'm sorry, but the portage system (i.e. the gentoo "package management" system) cannot be explained in one comment.
That's why i don't provide anything related to portage or package creation for users, i don't have enough time to support users on that.
Christian
Hi,
great distro! but emerge is complaining a lot, only mutt went through so far this is a bummer
@Aluc:
well, possibly that is a gentoo - portage problem, i didn't touch it...
At the moment I'm working on kernel-3.4.0 + EMGD-1.14 (the patching of EMGD-1.14 for kernel 3.4.0 is done).
Now i have to rebuild the initrd to boot with kernel 3.4.0, which seems to be tricky
After that step i should be able to release a new version of PixieLive
Hello,
We got some pc/104 hardware with a US15W.
We try to setup a platform to use the GMA500 card.
We succed to load PixieLive very easily, but we need to install specific hardware (compile a specific driver).
We are using PixieLive 2.0, how could we compile this specific driver with the kernel gentoo and create a module package to install it ?
@Renan Lavarec:
you can recompile the kernel starting from the pixielive configuration from kernel-config-x86-2.6.36-tuxonice-r3 eventually patching the source with your module or compiling it separately.
Notice that if you want a live distribution you need to recompile also the aufs2 module which is not included in the kernel source.
If possible it could be easier to:
if you have trouble finding the same source i used, you can download it from here: linux-2.6.36-tuxonice-r3.tar.bz2 pay attention, it's compiled already, you could avoid the compilation process.
to create a module package for the live system you just need to:
good luck :-)
let me know how it works please, christian