Gabriele this is really great news! Didn't play with LXDE a long time, but would like to agree with this choice, this is good small alternative for Gnome.
Thanks, Alexander On 15.05.2013, at 13:28, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > at Sonicle we've almost finished rebuilding a brand new IPS repo with updated > packages from > latest illumos kernel, updated userland components, X11 1.13.1, updated pkg > commands. > We wanted to rebuild everything from available sources, to remove any > possible dependency > from old packages derived from OI. > This repo will be available soon on our public pkg.sonicle.com/xstreamos > publisher, then a pkg update > will do the job over any previous XStreamOS installation. > Then, I'd like to announce that we're also working on a Desktop version of > XStreamOS. > We've chosen, first, do deliver the LXDE desktop as a lightweight frontend. > So we have already packaged all the gnome and other dependencies in our > userland. > The desktop already works, and is nice. > To make it usable, we're packaging all the typical application one may need > on a fresh install > (file manager, text editor, calculator, terminal, and so on). > We've also already packaged both Firefox 20.0.1 and Thunderbird 17.0.5, and > they work great on illumos. > We have plan to pre-package open-office or libre-office, pdf readers, media > apps and so on. > We would like your suggestions for what you would expect to have on a Desktop > distro of XStreamOS. > Thanks! > Gabriele Bulfon. > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > via Santa Maria Valle 3 - 20123 - Milano - Italy > http://www.sonicle.com > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
