PixieLive

PixieLive4 to HDD as "normal" distro

2013-12-20T18:00:00+01:00

Dear PixieLive4 users, since some of you wanted to install PixieLive4 on their NetBooks HDD as "normal" (i.e. non live) distro, here is the quick and dirty guide.

It's pretty straight forward, it can be summarized as:

prepare an HDD partition
extract the lzm modules
remove pixielive scripts
create missing directories
copy /dev
create an /etc/fstab
install and configure grub (the bootloader)
reboot and have fun!

This guide is not for newbies, i will not explain every command in the details, it would take too much time and you could damage your system if you don't know what you are doing.

For the commands you don't know "man", "gentoo wiki" and "google" are your friends.

I cannot guarantee everything is done in the best way here, it worked on my computer so it should on your.

Let's get started:

backup all of your documents
backup your windows partition if you think you will need it in future
make sure you have a backup of all your documents and software
double check you have a backup of all your documents and software (on a different disk)

boot PixieLive4 as usual
Prepare an empty partition on your disk, at least 10GB (you can use fdisk or gparted)
open a terminal window and become root
- su
format the partition you created as ext3 (ext4 won't boot with grub-1)
- mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdaX #where X is the partition number
prepare the mount directory
- mkdir /gentoohdd
mount the partition in the directory (replace the X with your partition number)
- mount /dev/sdaX /gentoohdd
- recursively copy the content of every module on the partition (notice the / after $i, it's important). It will take a looong time
  - for i in /mnt/live/memory/bundles/*; do rsync -a "$i/" /gentoohdd; done
- copy the /dev directory
  - cp -a /dev /gentoohdd
- create the some missing directories:
  - mkdir /gentoohdd/sys
  - mkdir /gentoohdd/proc
  - mkdir /gentoohdd/run
  - mkdir /gentoohdd/tmp
  - mkdir /gentoohdd/mnt
  - mkdir /gentoohdd/media
- create the fstab file (replace the X with your partition number)
  - echo "/dev/sdaX / ext3 noatime 0 1" > /gentoohdd/etc/fstab
- install grub
  - grub-install --root-directory=/gentoohdd /dev/sda
- copy the kernel in place
  - cp /mnt/live/memory/data/PixieLive4/boot/vmlinuz /gentoohdd/boot
- create a grub menu configuration (replace the Y with your partition number in the grub way, usually Y=X-1)
  - nano /gentoohdd/boot/grub/menu.lst
    - ##############################
    - default 0
    - timeout 5
    - title PixieLive4-HDD
    - root (hd0,Y) # usually Y = X-1
    - kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdaX
    - # you don't need this part if you don't have Windows installed
    - title Windows
    - rootnoverify (hd0,0) # assuming windows is on the first partition of the first disk
    - makeactive
    - chainloader +1
    - ##############################
- remove unneeded pixielive init scripts
  - rm /gentoohdd/etc/init.d/pixielive*
  - rm /gentoohdd/etc/conf.d/pixielive*
  - rm /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/default/pixielive*
  - rm /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/boot/pixielive*
  - rm /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown/*
- rebuild the shutdown runlevel
  - ln -s /etc/init.d/killprocs /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown
  - ln -s /etc/init.d/mount-ro /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown
  - ln -s /etc/init.d/savecache /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown
- copy the xorg.conf
  - cp -a /etc/X11/xorg.conf /gentoohdd/etc/X11
- unmount the gentoohdd partition
  - umount /gentoohdd
- reboot from the hdd

PixieLive4 Released

2013-11-08T01:25:00+01:00

After a long time, PixieLive is back with a brand new release including a new Boot Menu, updated programs, and some new entries.

The software selection can be completely tuned by removing the unneeded packages, ranging from 500 MB to about 2000 MB as explained Here

Download: PixieLive4.iso

Highlights:

~~Copy.com replaced drobox (15 GB of free online storage, +5 GB if you register using this Link)~~
As usual Pixielive supports GMA500 (a.k.a Poulsbo) graphic cards with both EMGD 1.18 binary drivers and the free modesetting (gma500_gfx)
nVidia Optimus supported out of the box
Claws-mail (lightweight email client which saves automatically on you pendrive)
Multi-User live system
Settings saved in several different ways (if the boot device is writable):
- some directories in the $HOME are linked in the PixieLive4 directory on your pendrive (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Templates, Videos)
- on demand save settings (for normal settings, as usual in PixieLive)
- live changes, for data and settings which change frequently (email thunderbird and claws-mail, copy.com replacing dropbox, it syncs on your..., sticky notes, calibre, torrents, calendar osmo, wifi networks)
- encrypted settings (for sensitive data browsers, email, copy.com settings,...)
- encrypted storage (~/Private directory encrypted, so you can safely save your sensitive documents on you pendrive)

Cheatcodes (to be specified on the bootloader "blue" screen):

noload=packages,list --> do not load the specified .lzm modules (e.g. noload=emgd -> do not load emgd module)
Xres=1024x768 --> change the default X resolution (for EMGD drivers only)
changes=DIRECTORY --> save all the changes into a target directory instead of PixieLive4 (using multiple changes directories you can create a multi-user system)

As usual PixieLive comes with a big software selection:

Desktop environments:
- Gnome-2.32 (default)
- Enlightenment-0.17
- Openbox

Development:
- arduino
- gcc
- qt-creator

Games:
- Crack-attack
- Battle for Wesnoth
- Hedgewars (Worms-like game)
- ZSnes (SNES emulator)

Graphics:
- Darktable (RAW images editor)
- GIMP-2.8 (Image editor)
- Geeqie (Image Viewer)
- Gtkam (Download your images from the camera)
- Inkscape (Vector graphics editor)

Editors:
- gVim
- Emacs

Office:
- Calibre (E-book library manager)
- Freemind (Mind-mapping software)
- LibreOffice-4 (Free office suite)
- LaTeX
- Lyx (Frontend for LaTeX)
- Osmo (Personal Organizer)
- Scribus (Professional Desktop Publishing, CMYK for offset printing)
- Texmaker (LaTeX development Environment)
- TeXstudio (LaTeX development Environment)

Internet:
- Chromium (Open-source version of Google Chrome web browser)
- Claws-mail (Mail reader)
- Copy.com (Online files syncing)
- Deluge (BitTorrent client)
- FileZilla (FTP client)
- Firefox (Web broswer, for license problems called Aurora in PixieLive)
- Liferea (News, feed RSS reader)
- Opera (Web browser)
- Pidgin (Chat and istant messaging)
- Skype (Chat, instant

messaging and VoIP client)
**Thunderbird (Mail and news reader, for license problems called EarlyBird in PixieLive)

Multimedia:
- Audacity (Record and edit audio files)
- Cheese (Take photos and videos with the webcam)
- Mplayer (Media player)
- Rhythmbox (Audio player and organizer)

Network Analysis:
- Aircrack-ng
- Ettercap
- Kismet
- Metasploit
- Nmap
- Reaver
- Zenmap
- Wireshark

Academic/Statistic Analisys:
- Gnuplot
- Octave
- R

Various:
- Docky (The finest dock no money can buy)
- Wine (For windows programs)
- GParted (Partition manager)

Notes:

To install it to an USB pendrive follow this guide
You can change users passwords and save them with the "Save System Settings (/etc)" program
- Default user:
  - Username: pixielive
  - Password: pixielive
- Default root access:
  - Username: root
  - Password: toor

Tanks:

*If you want to tank me for my work, registering a free account at https://copy.com/?r=tEP9h1 you will obtain 20GB of free online storage and they will add 5GB to my account. *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.

Download: PixieLive4.iso

Disclamer:

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.

PixieLive4 almost ready

2013-10-28T14:53:00+01:00

Good evening PixieLive users, a new version is on the way!

I'm trying to fix an issue with fglrx Radeon HD drivers (ati-drivers) which causes X to crash when starting firefox (and other softwares) on a Radeon HD system with AMD processor and is probably related to the CFLAGS i used, so I'm re-compiling the system with generic (a.k.a. safer) CFLAGS, cross your fingers.

You may ask "why PixieLive4 if there were no PixieLive3?"

Well, because a lot of time passed since i released the latest stable release (PixieLive2) and the new version will bring LibreOffice-4, so --> PixieLive4

Sneaky Peek into PixieLive4 new features:

Encrypted data storage
nVidia Optimus support
Copy.com synced storage
Claws-mail (light email-client IMAP,POP3,SMTP, much lighter than thunderbird)
Continuous file saving for email clients (you can use thunderbird or claws-mail on your live system)
Save Settings for every program separately, On-Demand
Academic and Development Software (R, octave, LaTeX, qt-creator, gnuplot, arduino)
Support for every graphic card, not only for Netbooks (hopefully, i have to fix the AMD-Radeon issue)
The whole software selection will be customizable by removing unneeded packages

Dropbox will be replaced with Copy.com

due to an issue while syncing on the live system.

Copy.com comes with 15GB of free space, if you register using my referral link https://copy.com/?r=tEP9h1 we will get both 5GB of free space ( 15+5=20GB of free online storage)

Other important software updates:

Gimp-2.8 (brings the long waited "Single Window Mode")
Firefox-24
LibreOffice-4
Scribus (Desktop publishing with CMYK support)
Arduino (program your arduino everywhere, you just need to bring your PixieLive4 pendrive system with you)
Hedgewars (do you remember Worms? One of the best games ever, here we have a free clone)

PixieLive3-RC1 direct download

2013-05-08T09:34:00+02:00

Since LinuxTracker is down, i provide a direct download link

Direct Download Link: PixieLive3RC1.iso

md5sum: f08288de176021572cdf929846647eca *PixieLive3RC1.iso

Once downloaded remember to check the md5sum of the iso (md5sum -b PixieLive3RC1.iso) to make sure it is not corrupted

PixieLive3RC1, modules cutomization

2013-04-11T08:00:00+02:00

A quick explanation on how to customize the modules in your Pendrive, removing unnecessary programs to earn some space.

Some of you may wonder why i included so many softwares in a live distro, the answer is:

Because you can select them by yourself!!!

If you peek into the PixieLive3RC1/modules directory you will notice a strange code on modules names. They are numbered. The numbering system is a code which tells you the modules dependencies.

There are 5 different modules categories (Identified by the starting letter).

B - Basic modules
- don't touch them, they are always needed by the system
S - Single modules
- they doesn't require any other module
- they are not required by anyone else
- you can freely remove them
C - Children modules
- they are not required by anyone
- you can remove them if you don't need them
G - Grandparent modules
- they are required by some other modules (type C or P)
- they don't require any other module
- before removing them you should remove any other program which require them
P - Parent Modules
- they are required by some other modules (type C or P)
- they require some other module
- before removing them you should remove any other program which require them (type C or P)

After the name there is an additional code which describe the dependencies

Dependencies code:

R - requires
- packages required by this package
- you can't remove them or this package will not work anymore
I - Is required
- packages which require this package
- if you remove this package, they will not work anymore

That's it!

A practical example:

P35_imagemagick-6.7.8.7_RP34G47G61_IC04P40C26.lzm
- parent module
  - it require other modules
  - it is required by other modules
  - you will have to work a bit before removing it
- is required by
  - C04 - C04_calibre-0.9.20_RP39P38G54G58P35.lzm
  - P40 - P40_inkscape-0.48.4_RG51G48P35G61G62G59_IC26.lzm
  - C26 - C26_lyx-2.0.5.1_RP35G55G42P37G48P40G59.lzm (it's in the LaTeX directory)
  - if you remove P35_imagemagick these programs will not work properly anymore
- requires
  - P34 - P34_lensfun-0.2.5-r2_RG59_IC05P35.lzm
  - G47 - G47_exiv2-0.23-r1_IC29C05P35C23.lzm
  - G61 - G61_lcms-1.19_IP40P35.lzm
  - you can't remove these packages or P35_imagemagick will stop working properly

Paying attention to the dependencies indicated on the packages names you can easily customize you image.

Notes:

Some packages are grouped in the LaTeX subdirectory for convenience, you can create your own groups (subdirectories), they doesn't affect the module loading in any way.
I created the LaTeX group so who doesn't need LaTeX can easily remove all the packages related to it.

Open for discussion!

PixieLive3RC1 Released

2013-04-08T22:56:00+02:00

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)

Highlights:

Settings saved in several different ways (if the boot device is writable):
- some directories in the $HOME are mounted in the PixieLive3RC1 directory on your pendrive (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Templates, Videos)
- on demand save settings (for normal settings, as usual in PixieLive)
- 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)
- encrypted settings (for sensitive data {browsers, email, dropbox settings, pidgin, skype, filezilla, wifi passwords})
- encrypted storage (~/Private directory encrypted, so you can safely save your sensitive documents on you pendrive)
Dropbox (which saves automatically on you pendrive)
Thunderbird (which saves automatically on you pendrive)
Enlightenment (ultra light desktop environment)

[PixieLive3-RC1.torrent!!!Cheatcodes (to be specified on the bootloader "blue" screen):

fulllive -> disable every kind of persistent changes, nothing will be saved on your pendrive
nobind -> doesn't bind mount the data directories from the Pendrive to the $HOME
nochanges -> doesn't use the settings saved "on-demand"
nolivechanges -> doesn't use the live_changes (settings saved automatically, for email, sticky notes, calendar, dropbox and calibre)
encfs -> activate the encryption for sensitive data (changes, live_changes and directory Private), it will ask for a password
unsafepasswords -> allow the save-settings script to save unencrypted sensitive data (i.e. even if encfs is not used)
noload=packages,list > 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)
keepxorgconf -> avoid the system to replace the xorg.conf (if you saved it) when you using the emgd driver
zram -> enable zram (ram compression system) system
X=(no,e17,openbox,gnome,default) -> select the default desktop manager ("no" means X will not be started)
Xemgd=1024x768 -> change the default resolution for the emgd driver

As usual PixieLive comes with a big software selection:

Desktop environments:

Gnome-2.32.1 (default, with openbox as windows manager)
Enlightenment-0.17.1
Openbox

Development:

gcc
qt-creator

Games:

Crack-attack
Battle for Wesnoth
ZSnes (SNES emulator)

Graphics:

Darktable (RAW images editor)
GIMP (Image editor)
Geeqie (Image Viewer)
Gtkam (Download your images from the camera)
Inkscape (Vector graphics editor)

Editors:

gVim
Emacs

Office:

Calibre (E-book library manager)
Freemind (Mind-mapping software)
LibreOffice (Free office suite)
LaTeX
Lyx (Frontend for LaTeX)
Osmo (Personal Organizer)
Texmaker (LaTeX development Environment)
TeXstudio (LaTeX development Environment)

Internet:

Chromium (Open-source version of Google Chrome web browser)
Deluge (BitTorrent client)
Dropbox (Online files syncing)
FileZilla (FTP client)
Firefox (Web broswer, for license problems called Aurora in PixieLive)
Liferea (News, feed RSS reader)
Opera (Web browser)
Pidgin (Chat and istant messaging)
Skype (Chat, instant messaging and VoIP client)
Thunderbird (Mail and news reader, for license problems called EarlyBird in PixieLive)

Multimedia:

Audacity (Record and edit audio files)
Cheese (Take photos and videos with the webcam)
Mplayer (Media player)
Rhythmbox (Audio player and organizer)

Network Analysis:

Aircrack-ng
Ettercap
Kismet
Metasploit
Nmap
Zenmap
Wireshark

Various:

Docky (The finest dock no money can buy)
Wine (For windows programs)
GParted (Partition manager)
xvkbd (Virtual Keyboard for touchscreens)

Known bugs:

RadeonHD cards are known to have some problems loading, if you can solve them, please let me know

Notes:

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
You can change users passwords and save them with the "Save System Settings (/etc)" program
- Default Username: pixielive Password: pixielive
- Default root Username: root Password: toor
If you want to test it on a GMA600 try filtering the emgd package with the cheatcode noload=emgd

Installation

To install on a USB pendrive just:
- extract the content of the iso on the pendrive
- DO NOT RENAME the PixieLive3RC1 directory
- change directory to PixieLive3RC1/boot
- run the script ./bootinst.sh

Disclamer:

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.

Download Torrent

PixieLive3-RC1.torrent

Donations

If this software helped you enough, feel free to donate.

PixieLive3-beta2 incoming, tell me what you need

2013-01-11T10:34:00+01:00

I'm preparing the new version of PixieLive, tell me the software you need, so i can include it from the beginning!

The work focuses mostly on flexible packaging of modules, allowing everyone to remove all the unneeded software obtaining a smaller system, but allowing who want more features to have them.

The default Desktop Manager will be probably the new enlightenment-0.17 (E17) since it's really efficient. Anyway gnome-2 will be included as usual.

I will include every driver you ask for, if it's included in the 3.6.11 kernel or if it's relatively easy to install, just ask for it!

(for example I have been asked to add the RTL8169 driver for the Fit-PC2...)

If you need some specific software please ask for it in the comments!

PixieLive-3-alpha

2012-02-23T09:15:00+01:00

Since many of you asked for it, the alpha is here!

Features:

EMGD-1.10
kernel-3.2.5
gPodder
Rhythmbox
every program updated
most of the standard features of PixieLive-2

Known bugs:

Some warnings shown during boot and shutdown, had no time to correct them, most of them are due to the change to openrc
No suspend to disk (hibernation) because tuxonice is not ready for kernel-3.2.5
Some hardware support could be missing

Help is welcome:

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

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.

Alpha means under development, let me know how stable it is :-D

Download: PixieLive3-alpha.tar

md5sum: e053cb8812b09190ccec5c1869c1051b *PixieLive-3-alpha.tar

Direct Download for PixieLive-2.0

2012-01-30T16:12:00+01:00

Since we had some problems with torrent, a direct download link for PixieLive-2.0 is available: http://pixielive.org/PixieLive-2.0.tar

N64 Emulator for PixieLive

2012-01-09T11:08:00+01:00

mupen64plus-1.5-r1.lzm is now available for download

quoting the Mupen64Plus site:

Mupen64Plus is a cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator which is capable of accurately playing many games. Included are four MIPS R4300 CPU emulators, with dynamic recompilers for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit amd64 systems, and necessary plugins for audio, graphical rendering (RDP), signal co-processor (RSP), and input. There is 1 included OpenGL video plugin, called RiceVideo. There are 3 other excellent video plugins being maintained by wahrhaft, called Arachnoid, Glide64, and Z64

It require deluge and ffmpeg to be installed on PixieLive (they are by default)

Qt-Creator-2.2.1 for PixieLive-2.0

2011-12-05T12:16:00+01:00

Just in case someone need an IDE for PixieLive2 (i do), i prepared a module containing Qt Creator IDE.

quoting from the qt website:

Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) tailored to the needs of Qt developers.

all the needed libraries are contained into the module, even qt-libs-4.7.2
the package include the usual Save Qt-Creator Settings menu entry

so if you want to include this module into your system:

you have to shutdown PixieLive2
you have to REMOVE the old qt-core-4.6.3-r1.lzm from your modules directory before installing qt-creator.2.2.1
then put qt-creator-2.2.1-qt-4.7.2-included.lzm into your modules directory as usual
boot PixieLive2 and enjoy your new IDE

i remember you to remove the old qt-core-4.6.3-r1.lzm while PixieLive2 is NOT running to avoid filesystem corruption

gtkdialog for PixieLive-2.0

2011-06-17T11:10:00+02:00

needed for Save Custom Settings

it allow to easily write dialog windows, it's needed is you want to use the Save Custom Settings function since i forgot to include it into the release

download --> gtkdialog.lzm

PixieLive-2.0 Released!!!

2011-05-18T18:31:00+02:00

Finally it's out! Fell free to download it

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.

Features:

Most Programs as separated modules
Network Manager with VPN support
Bradcom Wireless Drivers
LibreOffice
BlueTooth modem support
USB 3G modem support
TOR (optional)

included programs:

adobe-flash-10.2.152.27
audacity-1.3.12
chromium-10.0.648.133
deluge-1.3.1
ffmpeg-0.6_p25767
filezilla-3.3.4.1
firefox-3.6.15
gimp-2.6.11-r1
gnome-mplayer-1.0.0
gnome-utils-2.32.0-r1
gparted-0.5.2
gqview-2.1.5
gtkam-0.1.16.1
imagemagick-6.6.5.6
inkscape-0.48.0
libreoffice-3.3.1
libva-0.31.1_p4
liferea-1.6.5
mplayer-vaapi
openbox-3.4.11.2
opera-11.01.1190
osmo-0.2.10
pidgin-2.7.11
skype-2.1.0.81
wine-1.2.1
wireless-security-software

How-Tos:

root password: toor

download: PixieLive-2.0.torrent

Additional Applications 2.0

PixieLive-2.0 RC1

2011-04-07T11:45:00+02:00

First and hopefully Last release candidate for PixieLive-2.0, many new features, and some fixes included:

Most Programs as separated modules
Network Manager with VPN support
Bradcom Wireless Drivers (additional module)
LibreOffice
BlueTooth modem support
USB 3G modem support (additional module)
TOR (optional)

included programs:

adobe-flash-10.2.152.27
audacity-1.3.12
chromium-10.0.648.133
cwiid-20110107-r1
deluge-1.3.1
emacs-23.2-r2
ffmpeg-0.6_p25767
filezilla-3.3.4.1
firefox-3.6.15
gimp-2.6.11-r1
gnome-mplayer-1.0.0
gnome-utils-2.32.0-r1
gparted-0.5.2
gqview-2.1.5
gtkam-0.1.16.1
gtkperf-0.40
gvim-7.3.50
imagemagick-6.6.5.6
inkscape-0.48.0
libreoffice-3.3.1
libva-0.31.1_p4
liferea-1.6.5
mesa-progs-8.0.1
mplayer-vaapi
openbox-3.4.11.2
opera-11.01.1190
osmo-0.2.10
pidgin-2.7.11
skype-2.1.0.81
wine-1.2.1
wireless-security-software
zsnes-1.51-r2

Additional Modules:

USB Modem and Broadcom Wireless Drivers
wxGTK-2.8.10.1-r5 needed to make audacity and filezilla to work, i forgot to include it into the release

How-Tos:

fell free to test it and comment, more bug report ==> more bug fixes :-D

md5sum: 530a3859a2641124a7f9197e4ff36d4a *PixieLive2-RC1.tar

download --> PixieLive2-RC1

alternative download link (on free file hosting site): PixieLive2-RC1.tar

DropBox for PixieLive-1.1beta2

2011-02-16T14:59:00+01:00

DropBox is a free file hosting service able to sync your netbook, phone, tablet and desktop automatically. 2GB of free space to save your files, keep you devices synced, and share files with your friends (yes, you can share folders with your friends)

Here you can find the module for PixieLive.

notes:

Since it sync your computer you should place your Dropbox folder into the Documents directory, which is saved on your pendrive and it will not be deleted at every reboot
You can save your Dropbox settings as usual with the PixieLive-->Save Dropbox Settings menu, to avoid to insert your username and password at every reboot
If you use PixieLive with persistent changes you can place the Dropbox directory where you prefer and you don't need to use the Save Settings menu
You start with 2GB, and you can get 250MB more registering with my link, you can also get some more free space by completing some more steps here, you can easily reach 3GB of free space.
It could work also on PixieLive-1.0, not tested yet
Features

If you register an account with this link, you will get 250MB more to store your files, and you will give also 250MB more to me.

module download --> DropBox-1.0.20

PixieLive-1.1beta2 is out

2011-01-24T01:04:00+01:00

Waiting for the new EMGD driver (for xorg-1.9) i prepared this version, some new features inside:

boot from iso: use iso=ISONAME.iso cheatcode at boot
boot from a specific device (with uuid) chatcode uuid=UUIDOFYOURDEVICE
chromium opera and firefox included
NetworkManager with VPN support
openbox insted of metacity by default (60 fps more in glxgear on GMA500)
Save Settings Integrated in every single package
nvidia and ATI drivers included
mplayer with vaapi works on some video formats (without vaapi should work always)
a new cheatcode Xemgd=1024x768 allow you to set the resolution at boot on GMA500 cards

most of packages made for the 1.0 are already included, latex is not present at the moment, it's called beta just because there are some features i want to add, but it should be stable

If you want to use an USB Stick modem, add this module usb_modeswitch.lzm in the modules directory
OSMO personal organizer package: OSMO-0.2.10 (it saves changes automatically)

to enable libva on GMA500 you should add libva-update to the boot parameter in boot/bootmenu.cfg after the max_loop=256 or just add it at boot pressing TAB in the boot menu

download: Pixielive-1.1beta2.tar.gz

MD5: 72915a557abee392eece20585c1a163a *Pixielive-1.1beta2.tar.gz

report bugs in comments please,

Christian

KDE test: failed!

2010-12-14T08:43:00+01:00

I tried KDE-4.5.4 on PixieLive (with EMGD drivers) and...

it failed!!!

Basically kwin failed, because on my EEEPC 1101HA (with GMA500), equipped with kernel 2.6.35 and EMGD-1.5 drivers with compositing enabled it wasn't able to show anything. Without composition (a.k.a. Desktop Effects) it was working, but it was so slow to be unusable.

So, the next release (coming soon) will stick to gnome-2.30, but it will include QT libs for programs which need them (e.g. skype)

Cups for PixieLive-1.0

2010-10-31T14:56:00+01:00

Common Unix Printing System, printing server

usage:

/etc/init.d/cupsd start

to start it once

rc-update add cupsd default

and then "Save Runlevels Settings" in the menu to run it automatically at every boot

http://localhost:631 to configure it after start ( username "root" password "toor"

cups-1.3.11-r2: Common Unix Printing System, printing server

Audacity and Wine for PixieLive

2010-10-26T11:59:00+02:00

Two new programs for you, wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a software able to run windows programs under linux and audacity a Free Sound Editor and Recording Software

i remember you to put .lzm packages in the Pixielive/modules folder and reboot to get everything to work ("Save Wine Settings" and "Save Audacity Settings" included)

Audacity-1.3.8: Free Sound Editor and Recording
Wine-1.1.44: Run Windows applications on Linux

PixieLive-1.1beta-1

2010-10-16T18:22:00+02:00

The first beta release with EMGD-1.5 drivers is here!!!

This is NOT a stable release
no new features added from ToDo list,
Added tuxonice for suspension + hibernation
Added EMGD-1.5 drivers for Poulsbo
Added other drivers (ATI (radeon and fglrx), NVIDIA (nv, nvidia, nouveau), INTEL (hopefully gmaXXXX wiill work))
Added glxgears to test 3D performance

If you want to test it and give some feedback, download it and enjoy, if you want a stable release, stick to the 1.0

known bugs:

blueman is not working due to a dbus misconfiguration
vlc is compiled without graphical interface
mplayer is not present yet
libva doesn't work with emgd at the moment

You can change the emgd resolution by editing the PixieLive/rootcopy/etc/X11/xorg.conf.psb, if you computer is not 1366x768

This release is outdated, please try PixieLive-1.1beta2

Download: pixielive-1.1beta.tar.gz