SaxenOS: New Power for Old Hardware
Based on STX Linux

The SaxenOS 2 iso image is now down to a 534 MB size and needs about 1.7 GB space on the target partition plus of course the space for home directories and temporary/log files – so a 2 GB partition size is still the minimum. Check the download page to grab it.

Changes:

Installer
- Fixed german installer translations
- Changed formatting of target partition to Ext3

System
- Removed Win32 Codecs – they’re now a separate installer download (for legal reasons of course)
- Removed Realbasic – check the installer downloads next week (Also: OpenOffice german will be there in a few days)
- New SaxenOS System Panel, written in Realbasic

Fixed major bug:
After the last package update Zenpanel didn’t work anymore. I had to come up with a quick solution. No already available panel/system center worked and so I wrote a small user interface with buttons to start the system management applications, the SaxenOS System Panel. It’s not very beautiful and lacks translations but works. Expect a better solution in April when I got more experience with Realbasic.

Quick opinion piece about Realbasic: It’s great! I played and tried an hour while reading documentation for another hour and after one more hour of real coding I had a working solution for a system panel – not bad at all, considering, I just have basic knowledge and very very limited experience in programming. My next little project will be a GUI for configuring Xorg.

OK, have fun with SaxenOS 2.0. Consider buying it on CD since all the websites listed at the shop-page support SaxenOS by sending us some percents of their sales price.

If you have questions, please post them at the forum or send us an email. In the office hours (~7 a.m. to 4 p.m. GMT+1) you can even call us. I speak German and English and a little bit Russian.

Cheers!
STIBS

Screenshots

Docs

Direct Link to Iso

Source: SaxenOS Linux

I’ll be taking a look at this as soon as I find some free time.
Be patient, sometimes the web site can be a little slow

~LC

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Source: Howto install Flash, Java, Real Player 32 bit plugins under 64 bit Firefox

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While the experienced user can take influence in all steps of the burning process the beginner may find comfort in the automatic settings and the reasonable K3b defaults which allow a quick start. The actual burning in K3b is done by the command line utilities cdrecord, cdrdao, and growisofs.

What’s New in This Release:

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Read the full story on the K3b 1.0 Announcement page or directly have a look at the incomplete K3b 1.0 ChangeLog.

K3b download

K3b screenshots

Source: linux.softpedia.com

~LC

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