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llelectronics
October 18th, 2008, 08:51 AM
The ZevenOS Team is proud to announce the release of ZevenOS RC1.
We put a lot of work in improving overall performance and visual appearance.
The BeOS Touch was never so good in a linux distribution. With Sawfish our new window manager we have a lightweight but powerfull and very configurable window manager.
The great xfce panel is a beautiful addon to our Deskbar. MAGI 1 and 2 are as powerfull as they never were before and simply look beautifull. With the combination of Abiword and Gnumeric we offer the best and fastest office suite out there supporting a lot of new features like online collaboration.
We optimized our Webbrowser Epiphany for speed and included some famous extensions, like a addblocker. With Sylpheed we have a fast, lightweight but powerfull e-mail client that works impressivly well with imap. With the newest Gimp version (2.6) even proffessionell image artists will be happy. Gthumb and Quodlibet are the main apps for image and music management. With audacity , avidemux , YAVTD, Encode, Brasero (0.8.2) we offer a very productive multimedia suite that not only allows you to convert your videos to your favorite encoding format but also allows you to easily create DVDs and CDs for your Home DVD Player. If you want to share your favorite files very easily of the network we included giver that makes it easier as ever before.
Do you have a second Operating System installed we also support the major partitions out of the box. It's not necessary any more to edit cryptic text config files to mount NTFS/FAT32/BFS or FAT16 partitions. If you want to change the Bootloader we included an easy Bootup Manager that lets you set various options with a single click.
If you are a developer we include everything you need. With Geany you are able to quickly write or edit c, c#, c++, python, java or whatever programming language you use.
For beginners we included Gambas 2 IDE which is just amazingly easy to use.


All in all ZevenOS is the best linux experience a BeOS Switcher will get. It feels snappy and very familiar. If you want to learn more here are some screenshots (http://www.zevenos.com/screenshots.html) and don't miss the about page (http://www.zevenos.com/infos.html) with further explainations. And of course the Download Page (http://www.zevenos.com/downloads.html).


Have fun testing and please give feedback ;)

billgoldberg
October 18th, 2008, 08:57 AM
I don't see how this distro should be exiting to a Ubuntu user.

llelectronics
October 18th, 2008, 09:19 AM
It takes a different approach to the desktop and might be interesting for Ubuntu Users with older Hardware. It runs faster then Xubuntu and has a Netbook easy app launcher called MAGI 2.
It also includes everything necessary for day to day useage.

Canis familiaris
October 18th, 2008, 09:28 AM
Nice BeOS like Theme. You have me nostalgic.

Encode, PeopleEdit, YAVTD, MAGI, MAGI 2, Weblinks look nice.

Also, Is it based on Ubuntu?

BTW What is Safari icon doing in one of the screenshots?

llelectronics
October 18th, 2008, 09:32 AM
Its based on Xubuntu 8.04.1 plus some extras

I tested Safari via wine, therefor there is a safari icon on the desktop.

Btw. its called MAGI not magic :)

Canis familiaris
October 18th, 2008, 09:35 AM
Btw. its called MAGI not magic :)
Yeah. I corrected it. Google Translator translated it as "MAGIC" :)

llelectronics
October 18th, 2008, 09:37 AM
There is a english and german site in the about page. Look at the "EN" Shortcut :)
So its not needed to translate it with Google or Babelfish

Frak
October 18th, 2008, 12:52 PM
offtopic

My G4 still runs BeOS, along with OS 9 and OS X

/offtopic

PPC version plz
I'd like to run this on my old Macs and see how it does :)

llelectronics
October 18th, 2008, 01:01 PM
We still need someone to build the PPC version, as all devs simply do not have one ;)

Frak
October 18th, 2008, 06:06 PM
We still need someone to build the PPC version, as all devs simply do not have one ;)
Good enough, I'll see if I can get one rolling. (BTW, cross-compilers are a dream)

razerbug
October 18th, 2008, 06:13 PM
Congrats on making an OS - I havn't the first clue how one would do that so you have my respect!

see a small problem though... it's all written in Foreign ;P

llelectronics
October 18th, 2008, 06:25 PM
The Website has english and german support aswell as ZevenOS.
The forum is german dominating right now, but you can also post an english comment there.

The Screenshots show a german system though but when you choose english it changes of course ;)