Hey guys, wanted to post a pair of user remasters/editions whatever the heck ya call 'em
Zen 11.11 rev.2 is a user-remaster of Siamer's Zen-mini 2011.7 gnome 2 iso, many changes have been made, updates, bug fixes, some custom work etc. At it's heart it is still 90% pure Siamer, as his package choices are superb. This is a true "mini", with only basic utilities, a browser and the rest is up to you, this is for advanced users.
Zen 11.11.11 FMJ is a fuller edition of Zen 11.11, Programs listed below.
These are not official versions of PCLOS and will not be supported as such, these are
user remasters, use at your own risk! That being said you can get help any time from us over at the gnome forum
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Zen 11.11 rev.2 Fully updated as of 12-06-2011
http://www.gamefront.com/files/21061683/zen-11-11-2.iso 332.1 mb
md5sum: dfa37b85533d23e9ba2f0f5246bd9639 zen-11-11-2.iso
Forum announcement:
http://linuxgator.org/gnome/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3744Additional mirrors:
*links removed until new iso is mirrored*
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Zen 11.11.11 Full Metal Jackethttp://www.gamefront.com/files/21025993/zen-11-11-11-fmj.iso 610.95 mb.
md5sum: 75e0886c6b0ef940fc87cc14d9e266f8 zen-11-11-11-fmj.iso
Forum announcement:
http://linuxgator.org/gnome/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3808
Zen 11.11.11 FMJ, is a "full" edition, built on Zen 11.11, with many added programs/functions, the highlights:
Asunder- CD ripper, this is configured as the default action for music CD's
Clamav -virus scanner
Streamripper- record radio streams from command line or directly through Exaile
Exaile- Music player
Photorec-Testdisk- data recovery
GTkam- import photos from digital cameras
Gimp- photo manipulation and art creation
Gnome-games- all the classic time-wasters
conky- desktop time/date/information display
Brasero- CD/DVD burning
system-config-printer - the replacement for printerDrake, configures printing
cups- Common Unix Printing System
nfs-utils- network file-sharing for linux
Zenmap-nmap- port scanner
SMplayer- video/dvd media player, best performing one I have tested, supports VDPAU and multi-threading. DVD menus not so much.
Pidgin- Instant messaging client
Midnight Commander- superfluous additional file manager (are you guys happy now?)
Firefox 8- web browser, slightly less annoying than Firefox 7
Thunderbird 8- mail client
Latest Nvidia and ATI video drivers+dkms
and the entire Libre Office suite. yep. the whole shebang. and stoopid java.
This is all in addition to the programs included already from Zen 11.11
Gedit- text editor
Gpicview- simple image viewer
Bleachbit- file cleanup
Galculator- calculator
Gnome terminal
xterm
dictionary
nano- command line editing
gnome-screenshot- take screenshots of your desktop
Gparted- partitioning utility
gnome system monitor
Zen-mini-pclos-liveusb-creator
Shorewall- firewall
and too much more stuff to blather on about.
Fully updated as of 11-25-2011
This is purposefully simple, no great effort has been put into artwork or theme, this isn't a showcase for my style, just matched some of the grays and blacks that Siamer's Zen 2011.7 used in the rest of the system. The rest is just good solid GTK apps and some QT by necessity. The iso is right at 611 mb, so it leaves 89 mb, or roughly 250 or so uncompressed, which leaves quite a bit of room for users to add a few more programs and still stay under 700 mb to re-master for themselves and still fit on a CD.
I removed all desktop icons but addlocale, firewall set-up, and the "Install Zen" icon (which is removed after install). So the above screenshots are slightly inaccurate as a Home and Computer icon are showing. You can set the firewall, add a locale if you need, then delete these two from the desktop (they will still always be available from the menu).
Some extra Gstreamer plug-ins have also been added for functionality, and some extra Gimp plug-ins as well, also nfs-utils for local linux network file sharing. I will be adding both ATI and Nvidia proprietary drivers on this one like the official PCLOS editions do on "full" iso's.
I have built a custom conky display, it is also linked to Exaile and will display the current song/artist when Exaile is playing. I also built a little on-off switch for it that will be in the panel, so you can easily turn on and off, this is especially handy when you are modifying conky yourself. If you hate conky and want it gone, simply hit the off switch, delete the icon, and remove it in Synaptic. There is a built-in delay to conky auto-start of 20 seconds for livecd (boot process takes longer) and 10 seconds once installed. If you use it on old hardware, you may need to bump that up a bit, if conky starts then stops due to too much time drawing the desktop, simply hit the on-off switch a couple of times.
Exaile is also configured to work with Streamripper backend, so you can record radio streams with a single click of the "record" button in Exaile.
I added some custom PCLOS-specific cleaners to Bleachbit, you can run it with zero errors now, and some extra log files are cleaned when you run Bleachbit root.
I added "save-for-web" gimp plug-in, this allows you to tweak file size, very handy when doing web-mastering or developing/artwork, also added a plug-in to allow you to import pictures from your camera directly into gimp.
*EDIT* I added RAW support on the 4th burn as well.
I have not done a first-run or configuration on Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, or Libre-Office on the iso I will release, (though I have fully tested each of these to verify functionality on my own machine in another partition with this very system I am building), the reason being that first run on these programs:
a) Adds a buttload of data, greatly increasing iso space that could be better used for something else, and
b) The user needs to input their own data and will likely have their own preferences with regard to set-up anyway.
*A note about printing*
This iso has cups and cups common installed, it also has the system-config-printer package, and LibreOffice comes with some printing config options as well it looks like. So if you have a linux-enabled printer on your network somewhere, this sytem should be able to recognize it and print with it. If you don't already have a printer set up, and need to set one up with the machine Zen will be installed on, then likely you will need some driver packages from the repo.
I highly recommend using one of the "task-****" packages for your brand of printer unless you are very experienced and know just exactly what your system needs to work. Search the term "task" in the repo to pull up a list. If you want your system to act as the printer server for your local network, make sure and install task-printing-server too, this will allow other linux machines on your local network to use the printer with just cups installed on them.
The entire task-printing size is huge, this makes it prohibitive to include on an iso you are trying to keep under 700 mb, this is why printing will work out-of-the-box on some large distros, it's just a lot of bloat to me for one task, and too hard for users to track down all that they don't need if they'd like to cut the dead weight. I think it's a very very good thing that there are some full-sized distros like PCLOS that still keep their systems CD sized.
Have fun!
