Synergy Linux

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 then the wallpappers don’t show a preview image because the default Fedora wallpaper and Syenrgy wallpaper aren’t true wallpaper themes. I am going to see if I can fix this ie. have the application handle non wallpaper themes better. We’ll see. You can play with KDE Setup on one of the nightlys (more to come on that) by running kdesetup in konsole. You can also grab the rpm, it’s called kdesetup or compile it out of SVN.

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 but it didn’t have Pop3 support (I may still package it). So finally I settled on Thunderbird which pulls in a majority of the requires for Firefox, so I just might as well include it. I Also tried to get LibreOffice Writer on the CD as well but that pushed me up to 780Meg well over what a CD can handle and a CD is where I want to stay (no DVD Releases in the near future) so LibreOffice (for now) is a no, but Firefox and Thunderbird is Yes. Kword will handle word-processing until I find something better or someone reading this gives a decent argument to change

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 running the latest greatest packages for NetworkManager so that comes with some risks. However the issue has been reported to be fixed with this last update to NetworkManager and I have yet to have my CPU spike as it was before. We wills see though as further testing happens with Beta 2. I have also done some more branding (greening) various aspects of the System including kio_sysinfo and system-book marks (and little stuff). The more predominant future of this release is the Synergy Linux Feedback Application that will pop up on the LiveCD and ask you if you would like to leave feedback. It’s a very simple form, but it will allow us to get your thoughts, opinions and bugs reported. If publish worthy they will end up on the forum. I have also included QSynergy (and of course synergy) in this release, because it’s an awesome app with an awesome name.

The ISO can be found in the normal places:

Locally Hosted – 32Bit ISO (md5) and 64Bit ISO (md5)

Torrents – 32Bit Torrent and 64Bit Torrent (md5sums are included)

Even though Synergy Linux is still Kinda in alpha state (more like Beta) I still use it for daily use. Last night I ran a few tests on my EeePC, I have installed Synergy from a CD Rom Drive but hadn’t really practised from a USB Drive that had been installed from another Live environment. So I gave it a go, and it failed, falling too the dracut console after further investigation I found syslinux was looking for the drive using the UUID (A way to identify drives)of the previous install. So the config file wasn’t getting updated with the new systems UUID. After a little bit trying to find out why I created a solution and all seems well. It’s just been updated on the repos and I should have a Alpha 3 out soon with it included.. and then we go too Beta 1