January 11, 2009 at 5:32 pm (Naiux)
Tags: Naiux, songbird
I removed Flock for Songbird. Songbird has a web browser and media player all built into on thing. Ive become quite taken with it ^^
I am still under 660mb so I am now looking towards themes and styles.
Current Theme : New Carbonit
Current Icons : Xubuntu Studio
My wallpaper changes all the time. I am hoping to ask a Second Life friend to design me a couple. She’s a wizz with Photoshop and a good in game photographer. Would be nice to have decent pictures by her on my desktop.
December 20, 2008 at 9:27 pm (Naiux)
Tags: Naiux, xubuntu
Restarted this again tonight from a fresh Xubuntu 8.10 install. I also changed the order i did things and removed a bit more than last time. The reason i install flock near the beggining is because i couldnt view the net after removing firefox. Whoops! ^^
Added Medibuntu Repo
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
Added PPA Repo & SL Repo
sudo mousepad /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following 6 lines to the bottom of the page.
#PPA Launchpad Repo
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu intrepid main
#CapitanTerrax Repo
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/capitanterrex/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/capitanterrex/ubuntu intrepid main
Close mousepad, back to terminal and type
sudo apt-get update
Now a couple of things to install, go to terminal and type the following.
sudo apt-get install flock w64codecs flashplugin-nonfree omvviewer
sudo apt-get update
Removed Programs i dont want
sudo apt-get remove abiword orage gnumeric gnome-games firefox thunderbird xsane gimp gpicview brasero listen catfish
I used Synaptic to remove Xchat, Remote Desktop Viewer, Transmission, Sound Recorder, Totem, cups (4 different programs that use it) and lastly Firefox and all the add ons that went with it .
Now for a quick clean up.
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
I then downloaded Remasterys and ran it. No drivers, themes, odds and ends it gave me an ISO size of 663mb. Not bad, I am not going to fill 37mb with themes and wallpapers. I don’t however have a media player in here yet. So, i guess that’s my next thing, play with this for a while, add themes and wallpapers, figure out how to set them as default and away i go!
December 16, 2008 at 9:03 pm (Naiux)
Tags: media player, nauix, xubuntu
Bit of a distance between updates. Pardon me, life’s taking up to much online time at the moment 
So, I have enabled all my repo’s and I am currently browsing for a media player. I was thinking about banshee, but, after browsing the repo’s i see theres a lot more out there. With some time off work ahead i think i will be looking through some of these to see whats hot and whats not
November 30, 2008 at 12:29 pm (Naiux)
Tags: Naiux, openjdk, vuse
Small update, I removed OpenJDK (java) and Vuze (java based) from my base install and between them the ISO was nearly 100mb smaller. 100mb is just to much space for effectively just using Vuze. I don’t realy use Java on anything else other than Vuse so its no big loss. A quick ‘apt-get vuze’ and its installed along with openJDK.
Another thing I have been thinking about is changing the browser. I love flock! Its even apt for Naiux because its got all those lovely plug ins and is designed for this sort of thing. Its a cracking browser, but its soooo unstable! It crashes faily often on me. So perhaps I should change the browser to something more stable for now.
November 25, 2008 at 10:48 pm (Naiux)
Tags: Naiux
Another setback has beset me! Nothing big ^^
My bandwidth limit for the month is 97% used. Im pretty much down to web browsing for the next few days hehe. I am going to have a drift about the web, check how to set things as default in remasterys, and see if there is anything I can leave out to recover this 32mb. Then when December arrives i can get rolling again ^^
November 23, 2008 at 10:58 pm (Naiux)
Tags: iso, Naiux
Well, i made up my first Naiux. All went well, the install disc is fine, everything worked except 2 things. The first thing is the theme didnt stay as default when installed from the live disc. The secound thing, the ISO was 731MB. Not enough to fit on a CD which is a pain if i wanted to release it.
The first problem is fine. I will learn how to set themes and wallpapers to default. From that im going to learn something. The secound problem however, now that is a pain in the arse. What do i leave out that will save me 31MB? Its not to much of a problem as Naiux was more meant for me to have an installable disc of my desktop. But its a bugger thinking you no longer have the option to release it you know?
Oh well, im sure ill think of something. ^.^
November 22, 2008 at 11:12 pm (Naiux)
Tags: Naiux, stripping xubuntu
Ok so, started with a base install of Xubuntu tonight and had a jig with the programs. If youve been folowing me so far, this is exactly what ive done so far.
Added Medibuntu Repo
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
Added PPA Repo
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following 3 lines to the bottom of the page.
#PPA Launchpad Repo
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu intrepid main
Then back to terminal for this:
sudo apt-get update
Removed Programs i dont want
sudo apt-get remove abiword orage gnumeric gnome-games firefox thunderbird xsane gimp gpicview brasero listen catfish
I used Synaptic to remove Xchat, Remote Desktop Viewer, Transmission, Sound Recorder and Totem (wasnt sure of names).
Now for a quick clean up.
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
Now a couple of things to install.
sudo apt-get install flock skype vuze w64codecs flashplugin-nonfree
Now thats it for the moment. Ill have another browse over this tommorow morning but its late now and want to finish for the night ^^
November 22, 2008 at 11:46 am (Naiux)
Tags: Naiux, open source, re distribute, second life
I just found out something about Second Life! Its good news too ^.^ Not only can the Linux SL client be freely redistributed, its open source! I didnt realise that before hehe!
I know theres quite a few gaming releases of Ubuntu (Ultimate Edition and others), i will post the reply i recieved so you can all see it. The email i sent to Linden Labs asked:
Can the Linux SL cleint be re distributed for free? Can it be re distributed packaged within a linux distro?
Heres the reply:
Greetings, Naiki.
As far as I can see, that would be no problem at all.
From http://secondlifegrid.net/technology-programs/virtual-world-open-source/faq
“For those of you just joining us, Linden Lab is making the Second Life viewer source code available as open source, enabling developers to download the Second Life end user software and make modifications and additions to the code.
What do you mean “open source”?
Computer software is often produced by writing the software in a human-readable format (the “source code”), and then translating (“compiling”) it into a format that is more efficient for computers and easier for end-users to work with (the “executable”). The executable is not designed to be edited, so it’s very difficult to modify. When a company produces proprietary software, they typically only give users of the software the executable (not the source code), and prohibit modification or even detailed inspection of that executable.
In simple terms, “open source” means making the source code available for copying, and explicitly allowing users to modify their copy, and share their modified version with their friends, their customers, or the rest of the world. The most widely accepted definition of “open source” is the “Open Source Definition” published by the Open Source Institute, though many prefer the term “Free Software”, defined by the Free Software Foundation’s “Free Software Definition”. The Second Life viewer code qualifies as both “open source” and “free software”.”
Regards,
DavidT OnTyne
Linden Lab Support
Pretty funky aye ^.^
November 18, 2008 at 8:55 pm (Naiux)
Tags: google docs, lotus symphony, Naiux, zoho
So ive been thinking a bit more about this whole Naiux thing. I had a brief experiment the other day to see how big the ISO was going to be with a base Ubuntu install with XFCE and a hand full of apps. Well, its ruddy tiny! I thought for a minute about this. You know, perhaps that’s the way i should go. Keep the actual apps on the system to a minimum, leave the rest to online apps.
In my opinion, if you have not heard of at least one online application suite, you have been living under a rock for the last 6 months. From Microsoft’s online services to Google Docs. From Zoho to Lotus Symphony. These are the apps i should be using with this idea. The original concept of Naiux was to be an online app based distro. Now this is going to mean this will be some seriously stripped down OS. Something which i am quite partial too. I don’t like having epic sprawling menus of crud i never use.
Though how odd would it be to have like 3-4 things in your accessories menu, 1 thing in your media menu, 5 things in your settings menu, then perhaps a full network menu. Well, i guess i should go looking at these online suites in more detail. Though i have to admit, Lotus Symphony does sound realy cool… I mean that is a name that oozes style to me. I wonder if its re-distributable. ^.^
November 16, 2008 at 12:38 pm (Naiux)
Tags: Naiux, NewCarbonit, xfce, XFCE theme
I was thinking of something a little different for the theme. I havent seen many XFCE distros that by default move away from the light grey panels. The grey’ish panels always just remind me of the older windows, 95, 98, 2000, ME. I realy liked the dust sort of looks of some of the mock themes for Ibex. Ok, so its realy just a darker grey, but i thought it was pretty funky. Thats what brings me to the theme i currently use. Its called NewCarbonit, its up on opendesktop.org. Heres a link to it:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/NewCarbonit?content=68651
Pretty funky isnt it? Well, i quite like it anywhos! Hehe, so thats what id like Naiux’s themes to be. Fairly modern looking, dusty, and not to windows 95′ish ^.^
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