Elitist amd64 (LXDE) Release News

[machinebacon]

LinuxBBQ is proud to present the 64bit version of "Elitist", a full-featured LXDE release based on Debian Sid. Compared to the 32bit version, this remix is considerable smaller in ISO size due to package dependency optimizations. Additionally, a few new BBQ tools are added (oh, this explains it, gnah!)

Elitist is specifically aimed at web developers and programmers and has following applications on board:
Besides the standard CLI apps, Elitist packs a a number of GUI applications:

Default stack
Iceweasel browser
Roaster browser
PCManFM file manager
Leafpad text editor
mousepad text editor
Deadbeef music player
mplayer2 media player
Radiotray
Redshift
ePDFview
Development
Geany IDE
Bluefish HTML editor
Code:Blocks IDE
Meld Diff tool
phpEdit PHP editor
Graphics
GIMP image manipulation
Inkscape vector-based drawing
gpick color picker
Network
Filezilla FTP client
gufw firewall
gtkvncviewer VNC client
slypheed mail client
Pidgin instant messenger
Others
Synaptic package manager
GDebi package installer
Bleachbit janitor
RecordMyDesktop
Adobe Flashplayer, Adblock/Element Hiding, Firebug, NoSquint, Flashblock, WebDeveloper addons enabled in Iceweasel
various developer tools (git, svn, bzr, devscripts)
CLI Applications
abook addressbook
alsamixer audio mixer
bc calculator
BBQradio radio player
centerim* instant messenger
centericq* instant messenger for ICQ
irssi IRC chat tool
mc file manager
mcedit editor
moc music player
mutt* mail client
nano editor
ncdu ncurses disk utility
newsbeuter RSS client
ranger file manager
sc spreadsheet application
testdisk disk utility
tmux terminal multiplexer (for root)
wordgrinder text processor
wyrd calendar
zsh shell
BBQ Tools
Spatula simple WYSIWYG editor
Entertainer website randomizer
USB Creator frontend for dd
BBQNotes notepad
BBQSystem configuration helper (rewritten)
UpdateMan frontend for APT
EggTimer alarm
BBQdf frontend for df
Roaster browser
Cookbook desktop help
BBQ Webapps (Fog's photostream, Google News, Google Maps, Wikipedia, Youtube, gpodder, online TV streams)
various CLI helper tools

The LAMP stack can be installed through a LAMP install script via an own entry in the LXDE menu.

Download: http://linuxbbq.org/releases/Elitist/li ... tist64.iso
md5sum: 4b2d52fe84e3f44fdeb12fd88ec47b88
Size: 505MB

[dura]

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[machinebacon]

updated the initial post with md5sum and download location. Happy roasting, elitists!

[dkeg]

i'm so happy with my Kielbasa, but this dev edition is looking sweet ... gonna test it out

[wuxmedia]

sorry to be a bother, but is there going to be a linuxbbq-elitist.iso.md5 in the release dir?
no biggie - i'll probably end up dd'ing the stick to the file, as normal.

[machinebacon]

@wux: done

[mrneilypops]

Installed - excellent!
64bit boots to login in 3 seconds on my SSD!!!
I love poppies (?)

[dura]

Recommended download method is:

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wget -c http://linuxbbq.org/releases/Elitist/linuxbbq-elitist64.iso

Many super bbq tools!

[wuxmedia]

thanks bacon 8)
for the fancy pants download plus md5sum check one liner;

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wget -c http://linuxbbq.org/releases/Elitist/linuxbbq-elitist64{.iso,.iso.md5} && md5sum -c linuxbbq-elitist64.iso.md5

[dura]

^That isn't working for me wux.

[dura]

I'm running Elitist live and very impressed. Seems to boot up amazingly fast, a very complete but not excessive list of apps, and very, very handsome. I immediately think of installing it on a partition of my girlfriend's machine. Well done. Thank you.

It's late so haven't had much time to play around with it. But am loving Spatula. It has everything I need in an editor. Recent documents, colour chooser, and some very thoughtful formatting and insert functions. It could be used as a word processor. Perhaps I will use it for that. I'm going to try and rip the package from it somehow so I can put Spatula on my production machine. No need for gpick or hexchoosers. A great middle space between the simplicity of leafpad/mousepad and the excess of geany. Super.

The rewritten BBQ system tool is amazing. A great drop down menu, very intuitive, and simple. A real addition to the BBQ range. Unique, and extremely useful.

Another thoughtful addition on top of the new bbq tools is Redshift as default, which is set up already. Seems an automatic config from the clock and calendar are saving any messing about with config files for it.

The dd tool is lovely. Very simple. So more intuitive than the turdy unetbootin.

This is quite complete as a BBQ release, and very, very fast and nice to use. It will be installed tomorrow.

Thank you again, Mr. Bacon.

:D

[mrneilypops]

Super,super fast!

Just a couple of obs;
Mousepad is in the menu but does not appear?? no biggy soon installed.
Conky:
As RAM is shown as %used maybe disk space should be shown as %used??

Keep up the fab work!

[machinebacon]

Thanks dura,
the files are either in /usr/bin/ or in /usr/local/bin/ so you can port them to the other machine. Python-webkit and python-simplejson should be installed (they are anyway dependencies of Roaster)
gtk-Redshift starts with the one-size-fits-all formula of -l 50:50 and -t 5700:5900. I thought the people who know what Redshift is will also know where/how to change it.
Glad to know you're satisfied so far :)


Thanks Neil,
- mousepad 0.3.0 for 64-bit is not yet packaged and will be pulled in through a dist-upgrade in the next days. I haven't yet found the time to compile it. The version in the repos (upstream) is still the old one without syntax highlighting.
- the conky - well, a matter of taste. It *is* meant to replaced by the users personal one, and is just served as example. It's there to show the time, the free HD space and the used RAM. I use a different one on my machines, so this is not even "my" favourite. A few months ago I asked if conky should be shipped at all, and the asnwer was "yes". This conky is from deviantart, a simple one with high ratings and as it comes from the author. Hopefully BBQ users will share their conky configs in the appr. section some day :)

[wuxmedia]

thanks bacon spent a good time poking around last night.
just need to do some work now... looks like goodbye #! partition at last 8)

^That isn't working for me wux.

as in 'that hat and tie combo doesn't work for me', or it fails? 8P

works for me, 2nd time around, different distro. guess you haven't got md5sum??
obviously not a problem as you've d/l it fine anyway.

[o.g.]

Hello

Great. I erased mother to install elitist amd 64 yesterday.
I transformed elitist in "cou de canard farci"

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/dev/sda5           23G    6,9G   15G  32% /usr

I had problem with keyboard. Indeed /e/d/keyboard

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XKBLAYOUT="fr"
XKBVARIANT="euro"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin"

gives error in /v/l/Xorg.0.log : lightdm is qwerty

In fact XKBVARIANT="euro" has to be erased and everything is perfect.

Also problem (ok I read wiki or test another kernel like 3.6.9)
with Fn+/- brightness control.

Now Elitist is my working distrib on my laptop.

O.G.

[dura]

Ah, yes, wux. You're right, I don't have md5. My bad. :/

Thanks Bacon, I will grab The Mighty Spatula tonight.

[vic]

trollinger were so nice that i just had to install elitist too, the setup with lxde/openbox + tools + your magic bacon touch with the whole kaboodleschnitzel were just too irresistible!! thanxz!

[machinebacon]

^sounds like a fan :D Great to know you like it!