Welcome to the OzOS | apt:foo home, another outstanding development brought to you by the CafeLinux.org Team.
What is OzOS and apt:foo?
OzOs is an elegant stable environment of beauty, specifically "The Reality Different". OzOS is built on Xubuntu or to be more exact a Debian base and utilizes the sexy Enlightenment 17 Desktop. This is a special version of e17 that is brought to you by the most discriminating e17 user: Rui Pais; with his precious time and Enlightenment knowledge, he has created a Distro that is OzOS. Rui's easy "e17 SVN Deb" was the founding blueprint for the OzOS Live CD(With Installer) RC.
Rui's e17 SVN Deb is the foundation of OzOS along with Xubuntu, this is further customized with Rui's OzOS-Desktop.
We welcome you to take a trip down the rabbit hole and free your mind and become apart of "The Reality Different".
apt:foo Master Page:
http://cafelinux.org/OzOs/node/3
apt:foo is the realization of this "Reality Different" based in simplicity. If you are using OzOS, Debian, Ubuntu or any of their subsequent derivatives you can use the elegant easy apt:foo-ness found here.
To make it simple, you only need OzOS + Firefox + apt-get + apturl.
Simply navigate your way to the application desired and click on it's apt:foo link, the installation magic will began simply and easily.
The CafeLinux.org Team hopes that both OzOS & apt:foo brings to you hours of easy user pleasure, grounded in minimalism and simplicity. Our primary Developer Rui Pais from Lisboa-Portugal along with other CafeLinux.org Team members from the land of Oz & across the world hope to bring you back to the Earth and Enlightenment, grounded in simplicity.
Enjoy OzOS, Enjoy apt:foo.
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Hi again. Time for a bit of an update and a brain-dump. Apparently my rather negative take on the current state of e17 in my last blog entry depressed a few readers, so I’m determined to put on happy face this time. Everything is just fine. No, really it is.
Well, actually…
This is a brief How-To for users of OzOS, e17_svn and easy_e17. It shows you how to simply add or remove components of e17 that are available in svn (source code).
Please do not use this method if you have e17 installed from a binary - ie. via your usual package manager.
Welcome to February 2009. It has been a few weeks since I last blogged about e17 and cafelinux, so there's a bit of catching up to do. Sorry for the delay. I blame the heat - Australia's summer has been an absolute scorcher.
Is Enlightenment Dying?
In this exciting issue, we'll look, as usual, at the state of e17 and OzOS over the past couple of weeks, talk about what some cafelinux members have been up to and make a few pithy observations about LTE (Life, the Universe and Everything).
A final festive wrap-up.
1. Flag is currently [ _ACTIVE_ ] Upgrade e17 Negative!
Indeed! We have had our longest ever period of an _ACTIVE_ advisory for the svn code. It has now been several weeks since we have felt confident enough to give the "all clear" on updates. Members should be assured that this isn't an over-sight on our part and that the code continues to be tested on a daily basis. While we have had some brief periods of useable code, overall it hasn't been stable enough to reset our advisory. My latest useable build is 38251.
"Every second, every minute
It keeps changing to something different
Enlightenment, don't know what it is"
Van Morrison, Enlightenment, 1990
Yes, it does keep changing! An active couple of weeks on the forums highlighted a few issues and new developments in OzOS and in the e17 code base. Here's my take:
There's been a lot happening with OzOS and Enlightenment lately and the CafeLinux Forums have been running hot with news and changes. I thought it would be a good idea to blog a summary of what is happening and to give an overview of the ongoing changes in both OzOS and e17.
1. OzOS 0.9 Released
