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NimbleX 2008 is out! |
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I am pleased to announce that I finally got the courage to release the final version of NimbleX 2008!
It seems that I felt 2008RC was not close enough to release 2008 final as soon as I planed but I hope in the end it was all for the best.
The final was released a bit late for some because:
- The USB installer got some new improvements.
- RC was drastically slimmed to fit more usable things...
- VirtualBox OSE is now standard so, have fun with other OSs
- Partimage it's in NimbleX so you can backup/restore stuff
- Added some initial clustering support with OpenMPI
- A basic Firefox Kiosk mode can be booted from the CD
- A lot of software was updated to the latest version
- Bluetooh was finally fixed and it seems to work good
- You have some basic servers to play or work with.
- Compiz was cleaned a bit and some usability was added
- Many things where done. I'll let you decide if you like it
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NimbleX sub100 |
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NimbleX sub100 got some important improvements so I guess now it's ready for the public! It's main goal is to be used as a portable distro be cause it's small (99.9 MB), very fast (less than 40s boot in KDE) and has most of the stuff required for most common daily activities.
Latest highlights are:
- USB Installer (slightly better than the one in 2007v2)
- Added K3B so you can burn CDs and DVDs
- Added support for PDF files because the lack of it was annoying
- Now more than 240 Webcam models are supported
- Remote Desktop for rdp (Win) and vnc protocols
- Added a modified version of Quax's kweb2mod to use software from the Internet
- Wizard to create the nimblex.data file to easily save changes
- ... and a lot more (added parted, iptables, guarddog, wget, xfsutils, dosfstools, grub, gawk, less, unarj, nano)
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Custom NimbleX 2 |
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Custom NimbleX 2 is now available for everybody. Even if now it is at Release Candidate stage this provides a much better way for generating a customised Free Linux OS based on NimbleX. The only requirements from the users are knowledge of English, a web browser (Firefox) and a CD for burning the ISO that was generated.
Features of Custom NimbleX 2:
- Absolutely no knowlege required for the custom OS
- > 150 software packages from where you can choose
- support for over a dozen most popular languages
- configure the sounds of your Custom NimbleX OS
- set the wallpaper from 36 pics or upload your own
- configure your password and the restricted user
- calculating the size of the ISO dinamically
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