PixieLive - Tag - poulsbo

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-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-1.0 is Live!

2010-08-23T21:17:00+02:00

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)

root password: toor
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