GoblinX Project

The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the second release of the next G:Mini. The G:Mini 3.0 rc01 (2.9.90) is released. The G:Mini formely known as ‘GoblinX Mini Edition‘ is the son of GoblinX and contains only XFCE as the windows manager and GTK/GTK2 based applications. The edition is ideal for those users whose want to remaster the distro or with difficulties in downloading more than three hundred of megabytes (the original size of g:Standard).

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Full Version

g.Mini.full (ISO) (Simplynux) (393) -  g.Mini.full (ZIP) (Simplynux) (291)

English Stripped Version

g.Mini.en (ISO) (Simplynux) (278) -  g.Mini.en (ZIP) (Simplynux) (292)

This release was developed together with Vitor Micillo who worked hard in his own image to find bugs and report solutions. The final image was prepared by myself (Grobsch) and tested during last week.

This G:Mini edition includes the lastest Xfce 4.6 which brought several improvements and new features. Xfce-session now offers hibernate and suspend options. It has a new notification system with themes managed by Xfce-notifyd. Xfce-power-manager to help laptop users set up a power profile for two different modes “on battery power” and “on ac power”. Gigolo to manage connections to remote filesystems using GIO/GVFS. A better Control Center and more. Below there is a list with the most important changes.

Another major change is the release of different images, one full distribution without remove any files including all locales (internationalization files), and a second customized image only with default english language and without man pages, documentation, headers (.h), some themes and files.

In order to enable your own language with G:Mini full you must press TAB just after you select an Isolinux menu item and type a paramater, for example, i18n=de_DE to start using deutsche language. You need to know your locale alias to start using your favorite language. This method will use gettext to change the default language and only few applications will continue using english.

The g.Mini is available as an ISO image of the CD, you just need to download and burn it with your favorite cd-writing software and then boot from cd-rom. For USB is distributed as a ZIP archive. Simply unzip it to your USB device and run bootinst.bat (for Windows users) or bootinst.sh (for Linux users) to make it bootable.

Mirrors:

• http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/goblinx/GoblinX-3.0/
• http://www.uoc.lkams.kernel.org/pub/dist/goblinx/GoblinX-3.0/
• http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/goblinx/GoblinX-3.0/

MD5sum:

06a2dbbbeb2150d4f2cd984891d17185  g.Mini-2.9.90.full.zip
a6ef3fd33a75311c5ec9bef9b8841d81  g.Mini-2.9.90.zip
4c72c822d619eff9afae6126b9f014a9  g.Mini-2.9.90.full.iso
4906cc420ce4d931ad9a08ed10d41ea3  g.Mini-2.9.90.iso



Changelog:

• Upgraded several packages and libraries including the new Xfce (4.6).
• Added Xfce Terminal, GXine, Claws Mail, Twitux, Epdfview and Gigolo.
• Removed Leafpad, Nautilus, Totem, Evince, Ristretto and Squeeze. We prefer use Xfce related applications instead of GNOME ones.
• Upgraded Harddisk installer to include the possibility to choose the default language, a better and small interface designed for netbooks and a better method to check the livecd data.
• Build the full ISO without removing files.
• Added all internationalization files (locales)
• New method of select default language using Isolinux menu and a single parameter.
• Gigolo, the old Sion, now starts minimized.
• Removed some duplicated applications.
• GXine replaces Totem as video player with all MPlayer codecs.
• All modules are built following the place of the packages inside the repository, for example the packages inside the /extra folder are installed inside the a.MExtras module.
• Each module includes a list of its packages inside /var/log/livemos.
• and more…