openmamba milestone2 livecd-light 2.0.10 release announcement
The openmamba maintainer is happy to announce the immediate availability of the milestone2 2.0.10 release of the openmamba livecd-light distribution.
Description
openmamba livecd-light is a lightweight release of the openmamba operating system distributed in
ISO format so that you can make a CD or DVD with it, then the system can be used
simply by booting (or rebooting) your computer after inserting the medium in the CD/DVD reader.
It also provides an installation interface for system installation on fixed disk that
lets you use openmamba while maintaining the operating system pre-installed in
your computer (e.g. Windows).
It can also be installed into an external USB storage device (e.g. a pendrive) by using the
system tool openmamba USB installation.
It works on almost any Personal Computer: notebook, desktop and server.
Who it's for
openmamba livecd-light is based on a light desktop environment (LXDE) and as tough is fit both less
recent computers which have a relatively small amount of RAM memory and installations as server system when it
is preffered to have a light desktop environment to be used only for maintenance operations.
The installation can be completed later through the network.
Requirements
A Personal Computer (PC) or an Intel based Mac with the following minimum features:
- processor: Intel Pentium III or higher or AMD K6/Duron/Athlon or higher
- 196 MB of RAM (minimum)
- a CD-ROM drive or USB with boot support
Additional requirements for system installation:
- a fixed disk with 5 GB of free space or more
Features
- LXDE based light desktop system for standard Personal Computers (Intel x86 compatibile hardware)
- boot option to support systems having 4 or more GB of RAM
- top applications: LibreOffice, chromium, vlc, wine, gimp, audacity
- accelerated graphics support with open and proprietary drivers
- automatic hardware detection and configuration
- NTFS read and write support using ntfs-3g
- fixed disk installation interface
Downloads
Operating system information
- Name: openmamba
- Type: GNU/Linux operating system
- License: GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3
- Release branch: milestone2 (stable)
- Planned maintenance: long term
- Updates level: bugfix, security, end-user applications
- Default updates channels: milestone2, milestone2-updates, milestone2-games
Kernel, boot and drivers
Linux kernel | 3.2.21 | kernel-mamba kernel-mamba-64GB kernel-mamba-64GB-sound kernel-mamba-64GB-wireless kernel-mamba-sound kernel-mamba-wireless |
bootloader (grub) | 1.99 | grub |
boot system (dracut) | 015 | dracut |
NVIDIA proprietary driver | 295.53 | kernel-mamba-64GB-nongpl-nvidia kernel-mamba-nongpl-nvidia libGL-nvidia-X11 xorg-drv-video-nvidia xorg-ext-libglx-nvidia |
AMD/ATI proprietary driver | 8.961.12.4 | kernel-mamba-64GB-nongpl-fglrx kernel-mamba-nongpl-fglrx libGL-fglrx-X11 xorg-drv-video-fglrx |
GNU Toolchain
gcc | 4.5.3 | libgcc libgfortran libgomp libssp libstdc++6 |
glibc | 2.14.1 | glibc ldconfig locales timezone |
binutils | 2.22 | binutils libbinutils |
Packages and updates management
RPM | 5.2.1 | python-rpm rpm |
Smart Package Manager | 1.4 | smart smart-gui |
PackageKit | 0.6.21 | PackageKit PackageKit-glib |
Gnome PackageKit GUI | 3.2.1 | gnome-packagekit |
Graphical and Desktop environment
X.org | 1.10.4 | xorg-ext-libglx xorg-server |
Mesa | 7.11.2 | libEGL libgbm libGL-Mesa-dri libglapi libGLESv1 libGLESv2 libGLU |
LXDE | 0.5.5 | lxde-common |
Internet/Networking packages
chromium | 20.0.1096.1 | chromium |
midori | 0.4.5 | midori |
NetworkManager | 0.9.4.0 | libnm NetworkManager |
Gnome network management applet | 0.9.4.1 | network-manager-applet |
Multimedia packages
totem | 2.32.0 | libtotem totem-mozilla-plugin |
xmms2 | 0.7.DrNo | libxmms2 xmms2 |
lxmusic | 0.4.4 | lxmusic |
Recovery and diagnostic tools
Partition editor | 0.12.1 | gparted |
Data recovery | 6.13 | testdisk |
MBR boot loader | 1.1.11 | mbr |
Serial terminal emulator | 2.5.3487 | minicom |
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