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1. fplolz
   Member

   Hello every one :) ( hope you arent tired of me yet...)

   After days of toiling and several cups of coffee ...The Kahel Community Edition Live CD is finally Released ! :D

   Heres a laydown of what to expect...
   It is a live cd and will boot directly into a nice GUI :)
   It is rather lightweight...taking about only 80 mb ram on boot up
   This release contains a working installer ( unlike previous releases ...)
   Its a Beta release....( Yes , even though its a beta , it is stable enough for daily use )
   In Beta , the main issue i was tackling were stability and usability...
   Therefore , some of the intended applications have yet to be added.

   For starters...:)
   By Default , Kahel Community Edition Live CD comes with 2 window managers
   LXDE ( LXDE has came a long way and its really much of a DE rather than just a WM but still remains really light and sleek :) )
   Enlightenment 17 ( A nice and shiny window manager :D ...Rather light on system resources considering all the eye-candy it provides :) )

   I have included LXDM ( Yes :D LXDE's own display manager :D )
   and LXDM is the default Display manager for Kahel Community Edition
   LXDM is light , sleek and the usage of it is rather intuitive :D

   In Enlightenment , you will notice there is no networkmanager applet ....or any other applets for that matter ...This is so as by default , Enlightenment does not have a systray .Fortunately , Networkmanager is still running the background...so there will be Internet connectivity :)

   However , this can be easily modified to suit your needs. If you ever need a systray , enable the systray from Enlightenments modules and gadgets :) They provide a wide variety of nice gadgets :)

   To install Kahel community Edition , click on the install icon in the menus :)It shouldnt be to hard to miss it...It is a nice gui installer :)
   If in any case the installers fails to start ...type
   sudo python /opt/larchin/run/larchin.py

   Yep ^^ ...Few Reasons why i am really unwilling to move to the new larch 7 installer is cause of the new dependencies needed...like pyqt ..Therefore taking more space than actually needed...Plus larch 7 is not ready yet..

   To use the live cd ,
   Username liveuser
   password live

   Applications added :
   Arora ( Its a light webbrowser based on webkit engine and using QT ... Please dont freak out people.. Firefox is good ...but rather bloated and heavy ...couldnt get it to fit into the iso size limit ...)
   Pdigin ( A nice IM manager that supports quite a number of protocols :) )
   Shaman ( A front end gui for pacman ..GtkPacman is really sub-par compared to this...For those of you who have used Synaptics , you would feel home with Shaman :) Shaman uses QT ...Dont worry Fans of gtkpacman...gtkpacman is still installed by default..)
   Brasero ( yes ...a wonderful CD/DVD burner...)
   Xsane ( still included ...)
   A small handful of tools ( tools that configure moniter resolution , the locale , keyboard layout and users )
   Leafpad ( A light text editor :) )
   PcmanFM ( A nice sweet file manager )

   yep :)
   Announcements ...:)
   As i am currently the only 'dev' for KahelCommunityEdition L...I am greatly in need of help..
   Even if you cant spare the time to help ...just contribute your idea :) It will come a long way in helping the development...

   So...please give it a try ..:) And see how it goes

   Link :
   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3789720/KahelCommunityEditionBeta.iso

   Posted 1 month ago #

2. chris_debian
   Member

   Great work!

   Downloading now. It will be interesting to see how it compares to KahelOS Light Edition 01-01-2010.

   Many thanks for doing this.

   Chris.

   Posted 1 month ago #

3. chris_debian
   Member

   Just booted into the new environment and just about to attempt an install.

   When booting into the Live LXDE environment, I notice that the only desktop icon that works, is the 'My Documents' shortcut. Also, the 'Desktop' repository doesn't appear to sync when running Shamen in the Live environment.

   I like Arora, but it doesn't look like it supports Flash, but that doesn't surprise me (and isn't a big deal).

   I'll report any other findings.

   Thanks, again.

   Chris.

   Posted 1 month ago #

4. chris_debian
   Member

   The installer started, and in order for me to improve the chances of the first install working, I decided to choose the default options.

   I confirmed that I wanted Larchin to automatically partition my first harddrive, but when it started partitioning, it failed with this message:

   Couldn't initialize /dev/sda1 (or something similar), device in use. The installation then stopped.

   I double clicked the 'Disk Discovery' option and re-tried. This time it seemed to work. I'm getting messages saying that the various directories are being created.

   For example:

   XCALL: copydir /home
   END-XCALL
   XCALL: copydir /usr/bin
   END-XCALL
   XCALL: copydir /usr/include
   END-XCALL
   XCALL: copydir /usr/lib

   Thanks,

   Chris.

   Posted 1 month ago #

5. chris_debian
   Member

   I'm now in an installed working LXDE environment.

   I have a Firefox icon on my Task Bar, even though it is not installed.

   I have removed 'liveuser' so that it doesn't present a security vulnerability.

   Apart from the Desktop repo not syncing, this looks like a normal Arch install, but much easier.

   Just need to work out how to change the log-in screen wallpaper to something that isn't so bright :-)

   Thanks,

   Chris.

   Posted 1 month ago #

6. fplolz
   Member

   ooh :) thanks for the sweet and nice report :) Finally :) the installer works..

   hm...login manager is LXDM.. :)
   the config for LXDM wallpaper is in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf...or was it /etc/lxdm.d/lxdm.conf ? ..:o some where in there :)
   Than just type the location of the wallpaper of your choice in the lxdm.conf file....:)

   oh the Desktop repo ( Kahel OS's repo ) is yet to be up ...:) I believe we can expect it to be up soon..JoelBryan is working on setting up a sever for it :)

   Thanks for trying :)

   Posted 1 month ago #

7. chris_debian
   Member

   ooh :) thanks for the sweet and nice report :) Finally :) the installer works..

   chris_debian: :-)

   the config for LXDM wallpaper is in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf...or was it /etc/lxdm.d/lxdm.conf ? ..:o some where in there :)

   chris_debian: Cool, i'll have a look.

   oh the Desktop repo ( Kahel OS's repo ) is yet to be up ...:) I believe we can expect it to be up soon..JoelBryan is working on setting up a sever for it :)

   chris_debian: I commented it out for now, and haven't noticed any negative effects.

   Thanks for trying :)

   chris_debian: My pleasure. Good to help...

   Great work!

   Chris.

   Posted 1 month ago #

8. fplolz
   Member

   Kahel Community Edition Final is out :)
   over here
   http://forum.kahelos.org/topic/kahel-community-edition-live-cd-final-release?replies=1#post-713

   Posted 1 month ago #

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