| GoblinX version of SLAX-based live CD rolls forth |
Jul. 24, 2006
 The GoblinX project team released its latest SLAX-based distribution, GoblinX Mini 1.4.0 live CD, on July 24. The release sports a 2.6.15 kernel and the Xfce windowing environment. The release boasts several important improvements, according to the team.
"The Liveupgrade, our live CD remaster tool, now has a new main window with all the options you can enable before creating your own live CD," the Brazil-based project team said in the release announcement.
"There are also several new GUIs ready to use: gtkDSL which is a graphical interface to configure accounts and start DSL connections; gtkSwap, used to create swap memory files; gtkQivss, a Qiv slideshow interface; gtkSplitz, to divide files into pieces; and gtkImods, to use with modules and install modules to the hard disk."
Key new features, as listed by the team, include:- added Splax, Gtkdialog, Guicompletion, Zenity, Hardinfo and Minimum Profit
- added several new GUI interfaces
- added Gnomebaker, Gnomesu, and Oxine.
- upgraded Linux live (v5.4.7)
- changed file livecd.sgn to golivecd.sgn.
- changed user autologin, now an added user can login without gdm
GoblinX is a bootable live CD distribution based on Slackware (now SLAX) Linux. The primary goal for GoblinX is to create a more pleasant and functional desktop, standardizing all icons and themes to make it easy for novice users to learn about available applications.
Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement and changelog.
You can download the new live CD's 150 MB iso here.
Yuo can see some screen shots here.
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