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Elive

installed and updated Elive install to enjoin Enlightenment

Description

1. What does the appliance do:

Elive is an live CD from http://www.elivecd.org/ which has
the target to bring the Enlightenment Windowmanager or
Desktopshell to the world.
So this appliance will show you, how the hdd-install looks
like. It is an Debian but a customised one, mostly from
the Elive team, some from me by the elpanel.
If you would use it daily, add a new hdd, because the 2,5Gb /
is realy used by the large amount installed packages.
This appliance is another way to show how a linux desktop
can feel E-flavored. The time comes nearer when E17 will be
released, here you can test a preview from CVS.
If you need other vmware-tools (Workstation 5.5 are installed) install
them and don't forget to run /root/vmware-tools-any-update1/runme.pl
before executing vmware-config-tools.pl

2. How was the appliance built:
At first a made the slowly install of the live CD to the HDD.
I updatet nearly everything after reboot and installed many new
packages.
After that I rebooted from the liveCD and resizes the hdd by copy
the content to a new virtual disk.
Reboot the appliance again and customis the menu's you get with
the mouse. I removed some vmware needles goodies from the Desk like
battery and CPU Frequence monitoring.
At last I fixed the vmware-tools fails, by adding vmware-tools-any-update1 to the appliance, now vmware-tools for Workstation 5.5 are configured.

3. How to start and documentation:
Power on the appliance and feel the Enlightenment (eyecandy isn't a feature).
Docs about Elive see http://www.elivecd.org/
about E see http://www.enlightenment.org/ or http://www.get-e.org
about the underlieing Debian see http://debian.org

4. Licenses
nearly every thing is GPL'ed or LGPL'ed.
There is also the arcoread with his licence and the w32codecs which have a many but free to use licences

Last updated: 05/25/2006

Operating system: debian mixture from sarge and etch

Applications installed:
Kernel 2.6.16 Enlightenment 16 and 17 Firefox 1.5.0.2 Thunderbird Openoffice 2.0.1.5 Gimp 2.2.11 Acroread 7.0.5 Amarok 1.3.9 Ethereal 0.10.14 GCC 4.0.3 mplayer-1.0 mc 4.6.1 java 1.5.0 vmware-tools-any-update1

VMware Tools installed: Yes

Size: 1050 MB
Torrent available: Yes
(What is BitTorrent?)

Primary account
Username: root
Password: elive042

Submitted by: fapi


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