Fedora 11 - LXDE Released - (by Rahul)

[bob]

Hi,

I am pleased to announce the community remix of Fedora 11 with LXDE as
the default desktop environment. It is available for download at

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt...-i686-live.iso


Release Notes:
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It is a Live CD with LXDE as the default desktop environment. LXDE is
a new light weight desktop environment. Refer to http://lxde.org/ for
more details. This Live CD is only available for Intel compatible 32-bit
systems currently. Is is a 594 MB ISO image and the SHA256 checksum is

ba2aac565939c89eefea3fdb223d175bb9ac42d82c29de1d16 cd6eee5a848a0b

The Live CD uses Ext4 filesystem by default and the default partition
setup creates a separate small 200 MB /boot partition formatted as Ext3
since GRUB boot loader in Fedora 11 doesn't support Ext4 yet. You can
customize the partition scheme however since the Live CD essentially
transfers a complete image to the hard disk, it isn't possible to choose
a different filesystem. More details at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11

Post-installation on first boot, you have the option to register your
system using Smolt System profiler. Please do so that we know how many
active users are using this remix at http://smolts.org/stats

The kickstart file used to create the Live CD is available for your
review and customization at

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt...ra-remix-11.ks

Send your questions and feedback to fedora-list

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Commun..._Mailing_Lists

Rahul

[wayn]

thanks! I'm trying it out rightnow.

[CSchwangler]

I have installed the LXDE remix on my machine and it is really wonderful, very snappy and responsive. Thanks for creating. Just one question: will the remix also be available for future versions of Fedora?

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

The LXDE maintainer ( which I am not) has been working on a official LXDE spin for quite sometime. You can follow progress at

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LXDESpin

[Debroyston]

Hi,
Will there be a 64 bit version?

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

I don't plan on doing more archs or other variants.

[JWJones]

Hi folks,

I'm new to Fedora, and I'm checking out your LXDE Live CD. Nice job, looks and functions well.

I have to ask, though: What's the deal with the hot dog? That cracked me up! I just gotta know...

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

The hot dog is sort of a joke. When Fedora Project decided that we want to enable anybody to take a set of Fedora packages and mix it up the way they want to create a spin or a remix, one of the problems we had to overcome was the issue of branding. Fedora the brand name is protected by trademarks and allowing anybody to do whatever they want with the Fedora packages and calling the end result Fedora is problematic as we had no quality control over the process. So Fedora Project did a few things. One was introduce a secondary brand called Fedora remix and consolidating all the branding into a single package called fedora-logos and provide a non-branded version in generic-logos which can be used by remixes. Since the Fedora images in fedora-logos has to be replaced with something in generic-logos. someone decided to play a sort of practical joke I think and put in a hot dog. It was amusing enough that I didn't bother replacing it.

[JWJones]

Nice. It is a very attractive hot dog...

[cart]

I like your LXDE live CD. Now, I built a new live CD based on your kickstart file. In the login page (I guess this is a gdm), it logs me out after entering the Live System user or other user. Could you tell me what is wrong here? I cannot log in at all. I used the kickstart file as is.

Thanks in advance.
Jin

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

If you used the exact same kickstart file, there is no reason it wouldn't work. I have positive reports from many users who downloaded the image. Did you do any modifications? Did you set SELinux to permissive mode while building the Live CD?

[cart]

I ran this same ks script using F11 and the SELinux is permissive. All built right but it didn't allow me to log in to the desktop. It is same when I ran Qemu.

[cart]

Yesterday, I got another build error when pulling packages. Could you take a look at it and let me know why?

Package lxsession-lite is obsoleted by lxsession, trying to install lxsession-0.3.8-1.fc12.i586 instead

ibus-rawcode-1.0.0.20090303-2.fc11.i586 from rawhide has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0 is needed by package ibus-rawcode-1.0.0.20090303-2.fc11.i586 (rawhide)
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/errors.py:45: DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6
return unicode(self.message)
Error creating Live CD : Failed to build transaction : Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0 is needed by package ibus-rawcode-1.0.0.20090303-2.fc11.i586 (rawhide)
[root@bwi livecd]#

Any idea?

[syal]

Hello. I'm using Fedora 11 LXDE live-cd. I like LXDE and would like to try Fedora for the first time, so I'm trying it now.
The problem is that I have no sound. My sound is an onboard Via8237. It's the first time it doesn't work in about twenty distros that I've tried.
I open an ogg video with gxine and PulseAudio Volume Control; The configuration is set to 'Output Analog Stereo + Input Analog Stereo', the output devices are on 100% and also gxine controls. When the video is playing, both the 'Output Devices' and the 'Playback' tabs show a bar with the audio level but absolutely no sound comes out of the speakers. I tried 'alsamixer' at the command line but it seems it's not installed.
Since I'm new to Fedora, maybe I'm missing something simple. I have little space on disk and would have to delete some things to be able to install Fedora, but I'm a bit uncertain because of this audio issue.
Thanks everyone.

[syal]

Well, I found it's a PulseAudio Volume Control bug http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common...satisfactorily
Maybe I'll install the system and try the solution proposed.