OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/18157/Etoile_Live_CD_0_2-RC1_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 20 May 2013 03:52:13 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Finally http://www.osnews.com/thread?251133 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251133 I've been waiting on an RC or new beta. I'm looking forward to a modern GNUStep based desktop. Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsharitt) Comments PowerPC http://www.osnews.com/thread?251143 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251143 Cosidering that (at least from my impression) quite a few Étoilé developers have a Macintosh background, I wonder why there's no PowerPC live CD. Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KugelKurt) Comments Password http://www.osnews.com/thread?251166 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251166 This might be dumb, but I didn't see it, what is the live cd login/password? Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments RE: Password http://www.osnews.com/thread?251177 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251177 Never mind, found it ;) Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments Wahh http://www.osnews.com/thread?251178 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251178 Whats happened to the website? everytime news is made about this distribution, I can't even load the website! Anyone give me a heads up on why the website is broken? Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments RE: Wahh http://www.osnews.com/thread?251188 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251188 It's not. Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Spellcheck) Comments RE: Wahh http://www.osnews.com/thread?251234 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251234 Maybe your ISP can't connect to that server. Try using a proxy server. Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KugelKurt) Comments HArdware Requirements http://www.osnews.com/thread?251235 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251235 Anybody know the hardware requirements ... looking for sth. nice to install on a very old laptop. Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (searly) Comments RE: HArdware Requirements http://www.osnews.com/thread?251241 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251241 IceWM, Fluxbox or regular GNUstep should do the trick. Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sodki) Comments Precision.. http://www.osnews.com/thread?251248 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251248 This is a RC, meaning that if you want to really play with etoile, it'd better to wait for the final release of the livecd (shouldn't be very long now normally). Compared to the previous pre-0.2 livecd, there's also less apps to play with. Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (NicolasRoard) Comments RE[2]: HArdware Requirements http://www.osnews.com/thread?251380 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251380 "IceWM, Fluxbox or regular GNUstep should do the trick."

Depending on how "old" the laptop actually is, XFCE 3 and 4, IceWM, FluxBox and WindowMaker are a good idea for a GUI system. Even fvwm is imaginable, if you want to do some "cosmetics" after installation. :-)

(NB: GNUstep != WindowMaker, GNUstep != a window manager or a desktop; == a framework / library / standard specification; WindowMaker is the official window manager for GNUstep, but it is not written using GNUstep, if I remember correctly) Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments RE[3]: HArdware Requirements http://www.osnews.com/thread?251540 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251540
WindowMaker is the official window manager for GNUstep, but it is not written using GNUstep, if I remember correctly


You do. Window Maker is using its own toolkit library called WiNGS (an acronym for WiNGS is not GNUstep). Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ChrisV) Comments Odd http://www.osnews.com/thread?251550 http://www.osnews.com/thread?251550 Its odd Etoile decided to build a document-centric desktop based on something quite application-centric: OpenStep.

Though, based from the screenshots, it doesn't seem all that much more document-centric than other OpenStep-ish implementations.

Nice website though, a nice change from horribly-designed websites of other distributions. A good first impression. Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rajan r) Comments