Stepping down as Dreamlinux Forums Owner/Admin

Well, you read it right. After two years of devoting a lot free time along with my fellow LxH Crew members to the support of an amazing distro, I have decided that work and family commitments have to come first and I have to reduce my time online.

It was a hard decision to make as being the founder of Dreamlinux forums has probably been one of my best experiences over the last two years. I made a lot of friends, got to work with some amazing developers and Linux users.

The Dreamlinux community has over 5000 members now, and is a quality community who are always willing to help and give 100% to their distro. A forum is nothing without quality members, no matter how many there are.

We tried to create a place where we personally would like to hang out. No oppressive moderators, no forum councils or 10 page Codes of Conduct, and no pedantic members constantly reporting posts, pointing out the rules, in their quest to become forum staff. A Linux, community should never end up that way.

I feel that we, the LxH Crew, did a great job in contributing to this still growing community, which I am proud to have been a part of. Sadly, all good things come to an end, and I will now dedicate my freetime to LxH which is, has been and always will be /home for me. You see? It’s quality, not quantity that counts. DLF and LxH both have those attributes.

I just want to say thank to the members who have created an amazing environment, my fellow LxH members who all contributed equally to the construction and running of the forum, and last but not least, the Dreamlinux devs for producing an amazing distro and entrusting us, the LxH Crew with the responsibility of supporting their distro.

The forum staff and developers will decide on a new owner which will be announced as soon as everything has been transferred to them.

richs-lxh

Dreamlinux 4.0 preview

Dreamlinux Dev-Team
We are currently playing with a new base (DL-4.0), new kernel (.29-3) new modules, and nelsongs´ new distro building and module creation scripts. I have been left alone to play with the Fluxbox edition (Which I hope they will let me name DreamFlux), but in the meantime we got our hands on nelsongs’ preliminary     Gnome desktop modules to play with on the new base and kernel.

Dreamlinux 4.0 Gnome – What have we got so far?
Debian Squeeze base and repositories
Gnome Version – 2.26.1
Kernel – 2.6.29.3-dream
File System – Ext4
Media – 700Mb CD iso
Applications – New innovative stand alone click’n’run application system
Wbar – New dock which will replace Engage on Dreamlinux
DLI – New improved Dreamlinux Installer

First Impressions
I do all my testing on my laptop which has an ATI 9600 graphics card, and Broadcom wireless internet connection. Obviously the fact that Dreamlinux is the only Linux distro to have Broadcom wireless working out of the box is very important to me. In fact Dreamlinux has ALL available wireless firmware/kernel modules preinstalled.

The Live CD
Fast, for a Gnome live CD, very fast indeed. Booted to desktop in under 2 minutes for me.

Installing Dreamlinux
I used Gparted to format a spare partition to Ext4, then ran the new DLI (single window) installer. Added root password, my box name, username and password, then chose the Ext4 and Swap partitons. Chose install Grub to MBR and hit install.
7 minutes later (5 of which were /usr files) it was ready to go. I rebooted, got the grub menu with my other distros listed (Dreamliunux Fluxbox edition and Backtrack 3) clicked Dreamlinux 4, logged in, and was at the desktop in under a minute.

Screenshots
Not much to see at the moment, it’s early days, but here are some screenies for you:

Gnome-2.26 Desktop

New Dreamlinux 4.0 Control Panel

Wbar Mac-Style Application Dock

Wicd Wireless/Wired network connection manager

Partion Creation with Gparted

Gparted partitioner Ext4 file system

Dreamlinux 4.0 single window installer

Install ready to go

Dreamlinux installer half way 46% /usr files

Install complete – Reboot and have fun!!

Dreamlinux 4.0 Alpha Released for testing

Dreamlinux 4.0 – XFCE 4.6 – ALPHA Version, 10-09-2009

by Nelson Silveira, Andre Felipe, Timo Valtoaho

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Introduction:

Dreamlinux 4.0 Xfce4 is a new generation of Dreamlinux Project.
At the moment, DL4 Alpha is at an early stage. Some features are not implemented yet.

Low fat distro and fast response will be goal of this version.

Features:

Kernel 2.6.29.3-dream-1
Xfce 4.6.1.2
Packages from Debian Squeeze repositories
Smart Package Manager
Multimedia packages from Debian Multimedia Testing.
Wbar replaces Engage dock.
New Applications Folder for new Dreamlinux Executable Modules ( DEM ) packages.
Smplayer for all multimedia tasks, audio and video, standard or HD formats.
New GTK theme: Go_Steel based on Aurora GTK Engine.

Know Issues

Not working (yet )

Nvidia-install ( installs with manual method, download and run nvidia driver )
Dreamlinux specific scripts ( Easy-install, Color-Folders, Theme-switcher, etc )
Livedream, Easy-Remaster

DL4 XFCE Tips

The menu in this version was modified. For back to original xfce menu implementation
rename the file /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu.BACKUP to xfce-applications.menu

Custom Actions:

To play audio files, right click on audio file and choose Quick Play or Enqueue with Smplayer.

To play video files right click on video files and choose Watch this ( HD or SD formats ) video.

Also you can convert video files to Xvid or Mp4 video formats

To install TrueType Fonts you can right click on .ttf file format and choose Install Font.

Finally, you can convert any image or screenshot to jpg image format:

Enjoy DL4 XFCE Alpha !

Dreamlinux Team

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