OzOS Talk

[RAV TUX]

Originally Posted by Rui Pais Hi all, As you may know I've been put things together to make oz-desktop The DE of OZ OS. I will resume here the main objectives of it: The idea is to do a "dynamic iso". It will be based on Ubuntu, use Ubuntu software (wheel was one of the 1st mankind invention and its may be already patented ) and should be be very light in size. A minimalCD with exactly that, ubuntu-minimal and ubuntu-standart + oz-desktop and e17-cvs. oz-desktop should have 3 flavors, a very light, a normal and a special featured version. Installer will ask the user what we wants. For now i have made a first operational sketch of the oz-desktop. It's for tests only (although with a little of apt-get commands, some tweaks and you can make it as functional as you wish or even a turn it into a plain Ubuntu install) So What i ask is to anyone with the desire of test and play with, with time and a little free space, may want to give it a try and give us feedback, suggestions, problems, the usual ... There is no installer or iso for now. Just a procedure: 1) Download and burn iso for an Ubuntu base, minimalCD (9M) [from here] 2) Reboot from it and pass option: cli (on boot command line) [size=8pt] (Gutsy its buggy till the end of fur, but on minimal CD it's pure wild life!! Toke me 2 hours of despair till i discover that at least cli work)[/size] 3) Reboot to it. And add our repos to sources list: You can do it by hand: sudo nano -w /etc/apt/sources and add those lines: deb http://cafelinux.org/Downloads/oz-os scarecrow main contrib deb http://cafelinux.org/Downloads/oz-os tinwoodman main contrib or simply enter (be careful typos can ruin your sources.list!!): sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://cafelinux.org/Downloads/oz-os scarecrow main contrib' >> /etc/apt/sources.list" sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://cafelinux.org/Downloads/oz-os tinwoodman main contrib' >> /etc/apt/sources.list" 4) Update: sudo apt-get update 5) Install: (repeat on ewl failures if needed): sudo apt-get install e17-cvs oz-desktop or for a light version: sudo apt-get install e17-cvs oz-desktop-light 6) Start X and play around: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart Here it uses 1.9G of disk space for the oz-desktop. It's very basic at the moment, and maybe a bit ugly. but you can tune it as usual. Default important apps: abiword, firefox, gimp, pokerth, scite, thunar, xfce-terminal. Default apps of light version: abiword (no plugins), kazehakaze, scite, thunar, xfce-terminal. Extra creatures: stalonetray, xscreensaver. I add some pics of the default session. Tell me your issues, questions, lists of bugs... Give your suggestions and generic comments in this other thread: http://cafelinux.org/forum/index.php/topic,906.0.html Till Wednesday i will not probably have time to work on new versions, after that i will try to make things more stable and do an extra packages. keep happy all, Rui

http://cafelinux.org/forum/index.php/topic,907.0.html

OzOs is a CafeLinux.org Team Development, I speak for all Team members when I welcome and encourage all to help us out to test and refine OzOs.

For a list of CafeLinux.org Developments see the CafeLinux.org Homepage.

Also take a quick look at our ToDo List and Downloads(more to come)

Here is a quick list of the CafeLinux.org Team:

The CaféLinux.org Team Jozef (RAV TUX) - USA (DC in route to Portland, Oregon) - Core Founder of CaféLinux.org Paul (Aubrey, Tux Aubrey) - Australia - Core Founder of CaféLinux.org Arthur (Arty, A to the O) - USA (Maryland) - Core Founder of CaféLinux.org Chanuch (Chanuch) - USA (Maryland) - Lead CafeLinux.org Legal Admin.(Lawyer) Tom (bodhi.zazen) - USA (Montana) - Primary "Root" Server Admin. of CaféLinux.org & Lead Technical Admin. of CaféLinux.org Rui (Rui Pais) - Portugal - Lead Dev. "Development Division" Admin. of CaféLinux.org(Lead Dev. of OZ OS) Lothar (Lotodore) - Germany - Technical Admin. of CaféLinux.org(Network Dev. of PokerTH) Felix (doitux) - Germany - Technical Admin. of CaféLinux.org(Webmaster & Dev. of PokerTH) Christopher (devilhorns) - USA - Technical Admin. of CafeLinux.org(Enlightenment Dev. & Core Dev. of OZ OS) Carsten (Raster, Rasterman) - Taiwan/Australia - Technical Admin. of CaféLinux.org(Lead Dev. of Enlightenment & OpenMoko) Nicholas (mekius) - USA(Wisconsin in route to Illinois) - Technical Admin. of CaféLinux.org(Lead Dev. of gOS & Dev. of Enlightenment) Master Goodheart (MasterGH) - Australia - Technical Admin. of CafeLinux.org(Core Dev. of OZ OS) Colton (C J Pro) - USA (Pennsylvania) - Technical Admin. of CaféLinux.org Jacob (Jacob) - USA (Ohio) - Technical Admin. of CaféLinux.org Steve (Vorian, Duncan) - USA (Ohio) - Technical Admin. of CaféLinux.org

http://cafelinux.org/home/?q=node/1

As you can see we have many projects that we are involved in and support, our primary objective is to help and advance Linux and Open Source projects and help out when and where needed. Small upstart projects are our speciality, we have become like an incubator or farm if you will. The CafeLinux.org Team strives to make a difference in the Future of Linux and Open Source, The Future Now.

Please let us know if you can help or need help with any Linux or Open Source project.

...and as Rui Pais has posted OzOs needs testers.

Have a Happy Day,

Jozef

[n3tfury]

looks real nice. i might give this a shot this weekend.

[Flyingjester]

downloading now

[machoo02]

Building e17 inside of Virtualbox as we type....

[p_quarles]

Originally Posted by machoo02 Building e17 inside of Virtualbox as we type....

Ditto. I look forward to playing around with this, and will do my best to write useful feedback.

[RAV TUX]

Originally Posted by n3tfury looks real nice. i might give this a shot this weekend.

Originally Posted by Flyingjester downloading now

Originally Posted by machoo02 Building e17 inside of Virtualbox as we type....

Originally Posted by p_quarles Ditto. I look forward to playing around with this, and will do my best to write useful feedback.

This is awesome I am glad to see everybody trying OzOs out

Here is an update the downloads can found here now:

http://www.cafelinux.org/Downloads/oz-os/pool/main/


e/ 26-Nov-2007 14:54

o/ 26-Nov-2007 14:54

specifically:

e17-cvs_0.0-4.1_all.deb26-Nov-2007 14:55 2.3M

oz-desktop-light_0.02_all.deb26-Nov-2007 14:55 321K

oz-desktop_0.02_all.deb26-Nov-2007 14:56 1.2M

[-grubby]

using it, but not now. RAV TUX, all windows are transparent and so is the panel, this happened after I enabled the eye-candy (can't remember the specific name)
EDIT: what I mean specifically is that all windows and the panel are too transparent to see; in fact, they don't even look like windows

[RAV TUX]

Originally Posted by nathangrubb using it, but not now. RAV TUX, all windows are transparent and so is the panel, this happened after I enabled the eye-candy (can't remember the specific name)

Not sure what you mean here?

Do you mean a theme?

[-grubby]

Originally Posted by RAV TUX Not sure what you mean here? Do you mean a theme?

I mean that all windows are like, transparent but I don't see anything like window borders it's just looks like a giant piece of glass with a shadow. The desktop works fine (the theme and all) and the icons are OK. I'll try to get a screenshot to show you what I mean if you still are confused

[RAV TUX]

Here's a snapshot of my current OzOs: