PixieLive - Tag - development2019-09-05T20:58:06+02:00Christian Lorandiurn:md5:420041d3af3b66a087b22e9b14e3eb83DotclearPixieLive3RC1 Releasedurn:md5:0c0344fb8ea8c4ecc0d94b31477f0ae92013-04-08T22:56:00+02:002013-11-15T08:52:06+01:00Christian LorandiReleasedevelopmentEMGDGMA500Livenetbookpoulsbopsbupdate<p>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)</p>
<h3>Highlights:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Settings saved in several different ways (if the boot device is writable):
<ul>
<li>some directories in the $HOME are mounted in the PixieLive3RC1 directory on your pendrive (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Templates, Videos)</li>
<li>on demand save
settings (for normal settings, as usual in PixieLive)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>encrypted settings (for sensitive data {browsers, email, dropbox settings, pidgin, skype, filezilla, wifi passwords})</li>
<li>encrypted storage (~/Private directory encrypted, so you can safely save your sensitive documents on you pendrive)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Dropbox (which saves automatically on you pendrive)</li>
<li>Thunderbird (which saves automatically on you pendrive)</li>
<li>Enlightenment (ultra light desktop environment)</li>
</ul> <p>[PixieLive3-RC1.torrent!!!Cheatcodes (to be specified on the bootloader "blue" screen):</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>fulllive</strong> -> disable every kind of persistent changes, nothing will be saved on your pendrive</li>
<li><strong>nobind</strong> -> doesn't bind mount the data directories from the Pendrive to the $HOME</li>
<li><strong>nochanges</strong> -> doesn't use the settings saved "on-demand"</li>
<li><strong>nolivechanges</strong> -> doesn't use the live_changes (settings saved automatically, for email, sticky notes, calendar, dropbox and calibre)</li>
<li><strong>encfs</strong> -> activate the encryption for sensitive data (changes, live_changes and directory Private), it will ask for a password</li>
<li><strong>unsafepasswords</strong> -> allow the save-settings script to save unencrypted sensitive data (i.e. even if encfs
is not used)</li>
<li><strong>noload=packages,list</strong> > 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)</li>
<li><strong>keepxorgconf</strong> -> avoid the system to replace the xorg.conf (if you saved it) when you using the emgd driver</li>
<li><strong>zram</strong> -> enable zram (ram compression system) system</li>
<li><strong>X=(no,e17,openbox,gnome,default)</strong> -> select the default desktop manager ("no" means X will not be started)</li>
<li><strong>Xemgd=1024x768</strong> -> change the default resolution for the emgd driver</li>
</ul>
<h3>As usual PixieLive comes with a big software selection:</h3>
<h4>Desktop environments:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Gnome-2.32.1 (default, with openbox as windows manager)</li>
<li>Enlightenment-0.17.1</li>
<li>Openbox</li>
</ul>
<h4>Development:</h4>
<ul>
<li>gcc</li>
<li>qt-creator</li>
</ul>
n<h4>Games:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Crack-attack</li>
<li>Battle for Wesnoth</li>
<li>ZSnes (SNES emulator)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Graphics:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Darktable (RAW images editor)</li>
<li>GIMP (Image editor)</li>
<li>Geeqie (Image Viewer)</li>
<li>Gtkam (Download your images from the camera)</li>
<li>Inkscape (Vector graphics editor)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Editors:</h4>
<ul>
<li>gVim</li>
<li>Emacs</li>
</ul>
<h4>Office:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Calibre (E-book library manager)</li>
<li>Freemind (Mind-mapping software)</li>
<li>LibreOffice (Free office suite)</li>
<li>LaTeX</li>
<li>Lyx (Frontend for LaTeX)</li>
<li>Osmo (Personal Organizer)</li>
<li>Texmaker (LaTeX development Environment)</li>
<li>TeXstudio (LaTeX development Environment)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Internet:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Chromium (Open-source version of Google Chrome web browser)</li>
<li>Deluge (BitTorrent client)</li>
<li>Dropbox (Online files syncing)</li>
<li>FileZilla (FTP client)</li>
<li>Firefox (Web broswer, for license problems
called Aurora in PixieLive)</li>
<li>Liferea (News, feed RSS reader)</li>
<li>Opera (Web browser)</li>
<li>Pidgin (Chat and istant messaging)</li>
<li>Skype (Chat, instant messaging and VoIP client)</li>
<li>Thunderbird (Mail and news reader, for license problems called EarlyBird in PixieLive)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Multimedia:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Audacity (Record and edit audio files)</li>
<li>Cheese (Take photos and videos with the webcam)</li>
<li>Mplayer (Media player)</li>
<li>Rhythmbox (Audio player and organizer)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Network Analysis:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Aircrack-ng</li>
<li>Ettercap</li>
<li>Kismet</li>
<li>Metasploit</li>
<li>Nmap</li>
<li>Zenmap</li>
<li>Wireshark</li>
</ul>
<h4>Various:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Docky (The finest dock no money can buy)</li>
<li>Wine (For windows programs)</li>
<li>GParted (Partition manager)</li>
<li>xvkbd (Virtual Keyboard for touchscreens)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known bugs:</h3>
<ul>
<li>RadeonHD cards are known to have some problems loading, if you
can solve them, please let me know</li>
</ul>
<h3>Notes:</h3>
<ul>
<li>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</li>
<li>You can change users passwords and save them with the "Save System Settings (/etc)" program
<ul>
<li>Default Username: pixielive Password: pixielive</li>
<li>Default root Username: root Password: toor</li>
</ul></li>
<li>If you want to test it on a GMA600 try filtering the emgd package with the cheatcode noload=emgd</li>
</ul>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<ul>
<li>To install on a USB pendrive just:
<ul>
<li>extract the content of the iso on the pendrive</li>
<li>DO NOT RENAME the PixieLive3RC1 directory</li>
<li>change directory to PixieLive3RC1/boot</li>
<li>run the script ./bootinst.sh</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h3>Disclamer:</h3>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Download Torrent</h3>
<p><a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/public/PixieLive3-RC1.torrent">PixieLive3-RC1.torrent</a></p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>If this software helped you enough, feel free to donate.</p>PixieLive-3-alphaurn:md5:7a697082928f2e445fe9b9975af6809e2012-02-23T09:15:00+01:002013-11-15T08:52:11+01:00Christian LorandiReleasedevelopmentEMGDGMA500Liveupdate<p>Since many of you asked for it, the alpha is here!</p> <h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>EMGD-1.10</li>
<li>kernel-3.2.5</li>
<li>gPodder</li>
<li>Rhythmbox</li>
<li>every program updated</li>
<li>most of the standard features of PixieLive-2</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known bugs:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Some warnings shown during boot and shutdown, had no time to correct them, most of them are due to the change to openrc</li>
<li>No suspend to disk (hibernation) because tuxonice is not ready for kernel-3.2.5</li>
<li>Some hardware support could be missing</li>
</ul>
<h3>Help is welcome:</h3>
<ul>
<li>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</li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Alpha means under development, let me know how stable it is :-D</h4>
<h2>Download: <a href="http://pixielive.org/PixieLive3-alpha.tar">PixieLive3-alpha.tar</a></h2>
<p>md5sum: e053cb8812b09190ccec5c1869c1051b *PixieLive-3-alpha.tar</p>Qt-Creator-2.2.1 for PixieLive-2.0urn:md5:53ab30b95a4efd5bc42a5574a90bc04a2011-12-05T12:16:00+01:002013-04-02T09:32:04+02:00Christian LorandiApplicationapplicationdevelopmentqt<h3>Just in case someone need an IDE for PixieLive2 (i do), i prepared a module containing <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools/">Qt Creator IDE</a>.</h3>
<p>quoting from the qt website:</p>
<blockquote><p>Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) tailored to the needs of Qt developers.</p></blockquote> <ul>
<li>all the needed libraries are contained into the module, <strong>even qt-libs-4.7.2</strong></li>
<li>the package include the usual Save Qt-Creator Settings menu entry</li>
</ul>
<p>so if you want to include this module into your system:</p>
<ul>
<li>you have to <strong>shutdown</strong> PixieLive2</li>
<li>you <strong>have to REMOVE</strong> the old <strong>qt-core-4.6.3-r1.lzm</strong>
from your modules directory <strong>before</strong> installing qt-creator.2.2.1</li>
<li>then put <a href="http://pixielive.org/dotclear/public/Applications-2.0/qt-creator-2.2.1-qt-4.7.2-included.lzm">qt-creator-2.2.1-qt-4.7.2-included.lzm</a> into your modules directory as usual</li>
<li>boot PixieLive2 and enjoy your new IDE</li>
</ul>
<p>i remember you to remove the old <strong>qt-core-4.6.3-r1.lzm</strong> while PixieLive2 is <strong>NOT running</strong> to avoid filesystem corruption</p>