PixieLive - Tag - EMGD

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.

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.

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

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

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