Firefly Linux Alpha 2 Released

[hopp58902 Member]

From Fireflylinux.com:

Time for another Alpha! Grab "Floaty" Alpha 2 right here, with many new features to make netbook Linux much better.

Live USB: Boot Firefly using a USB flash drive (512MB or greater). You'll need to download UNetbootin for either Windows or Linux, along with the ISO below. In the UNetbootin window, choose the "Disk Image" option and point it to the downloaded Firefly ISO.

View Screenshots Here!

More Features:

• Works on all x86 processors, not just netbooks
  
• 310MB
  
• Out-of-box Atheros Wifi (commonly found in netbooks)
  
• Boot from USB drive using UNetbootin
  
• Based on Arch Linux
  
• LXDE, for a fast user interface that looks great on netbooks
  
• Custom DPI optimized for netbook screens which looks great everywhere
  
• Auto-detecting X Server for most common video hardware
  
• Easily installable Aspire One kernel from AUR (Link)
  
• Alpha LXLauncher included (lxlauncher from the Terminal)
  

Choose a mirror closest to you for the fastest download speeds:

UK: http://repo.shiftlinux.net/firefly/release...x-floaty-a2.iso

US: http://www.fireflylinux.com/download/float...x-floaty-a2.iso

The default username is "firefly" and the password is "firefly". The root password is "root".

We're looking for mirrors and help too, and we're still working on the forums!

Edited February 16, 2009 by CrimsonRedMk

[CPressland]

About to install it on a VM, looks good, but the colour scheme looks awful :(

Will be interesting to see how quickly it boots :)

[White Cuban]

Resembles XP+vista's child.

[brentaal]

Resembles XP+vista's child.

Or... LXDE's default theme + Gion icons :D (not saying that's a bad thing!)

[hopp58902 Member]

Haha, brentaai for the win - it's not installable at the moment though. You caaan try to dd if of and then grab a GRUB bootloader menu.lst though.... :p I don't recommend it. I'll try to add an installer next time though.

[DGMurdockIII]

these two site might have somthing you might be able to use for firelinux http://moblin.org/ & http://sourceforge.net/projects/eeepc-acpi-util/ & http://www.acpica.org/

[omar8]

I keep getting 403 error when I try to go to the website? Anyone else getting this?

[hopp58902 Member]

Yeah, sorry, fixed the 403 error now.

[AltecXP]

Downloading now. Anyone tried to install this on a MacBook yet?

[CPressland]

Downloading now. Anyone tried to install this on a MacBook yet?

Yes, didn't play nice :(