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




