Friday I placed what I currently have for a Graphical installer onto the LiveCDs I have been making. It works but it sure is not pretty. I have also been able to build both 32 and 64Bit ISOs. Things are slowly progressing. The installer is written in PyQt4 and has a built in auto partitoning [...]
Archive for the ‘KDE 4’ category
Dec 09 2011
Google Plus Synergy Linux Page
Synergy Linux now has it’s own page on Google Plus, this has much more recent updates to packages and ISO builds then the blog or the forums. Check it out: Synergy Linux on Google Plus ***Attention*** You don’t have to have a Gmail account to see the status, however you will need one to [...]
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Nov 28 2011
First window Manager DWM
We have had the ability to build a CLI based ISO for a while now. However install has been rather tricky. This is because Syenrgy Linux does not offer any selinux packages. We have completely stripped out SELinux from our core packages. Up until a few weeks ago this meant a broken anaconda and a [...]
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Aug 13 2011
Synergy Linux 3 Nightly releases
I have been able to create a VERY early Synergy Linux 3 release. It’s basically just Fedora 16 pre alpha. So really it’s a pre Alpha based on a pre Alpha. The real difference right now is size, I’m only around 600MB, psmem is included, the Synergy Release file with Synergy repos, and my own [...]
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Aug 01 2011
TakeOff – a full screen menu, added to repo
TakeOff a full screen menu has been added to repo. Please test More information can be found on the project page: https://code.google.com/p/takeoff-launcher/
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Jul 06 2011
New App, KDE Setup
There’s a new application I have added to the CD. It’s called KDE Setup. For some of you it may look familar. I borrowed it from Pardus (known as Kaptan, there) renamed it, took out Smolt, (for now) and I am integrating the Synergy Feedback application into it. It works for the most part other [...]
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Jul 05 2011
Next release: FireFox 5 and Thunderbird
I caved.. The next release will have Firefox and Thunderbird, this all comes from getting a decent mail client. Claws-Mail in look and feel just wasn’t cutting it. I did my own version changing the icons etc.., but it still wasn’t mixing well with Oxygen-Gtk. I found a great IMAP PyQt4 based client called Trojita [...]
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Jun 30 2011
It’s Thursday, new Beta day
It’s been a few days since my last post. I’ve been hammering away at the next Beta (Beta 2) and I think it’s finally ready to be released. This Beta release come with a fix for NetworkWork Manager, it seems the latest version we were using had some issues that weren’t caught by upstream. I’m [...]
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Jun 25 2011
New Package included on the LiveCd for your WebCam Needs
After playing with kamoso for a bit I have decided to put it on the LiveCD for those of us who have webcams and are enthralled (at times) by them. Here’s a Screenshot.
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Jun 25 2011
Synergy LiveMedia Bug fix and feature preparation.
In Alpha 3 Richard reported that the Synergy Live Media Creator, also known as the “Compressed Installer” for us limited on hard drive space, wasn’t smart enough to properly calculate the size left over for a persistent overlay file. Of course it will do it properly for ISO files but installing while running Live it [...]
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