Congrats on the release! ~Anil
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Stormont<andyjstorm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > The StormOS Hail Beta ISO has now been released and is available for > download immediately, grab it here. > > StormOS is the first desktop distribution based on Nexenta Core Platform 2 > which combines the power of the Solaris kernel with the ease of use of > Ubuntu. It aims to be a lightweight OS with everything the average user > would want out-of-the-box. > > The project was started due to my dissatisfaction with OpenSolaris. I found > it slow on my netbook, and although it runs great on my desktop I dislike > IPS. APT is much nicer. > > Out of the box it includes: > > Polished Xfce 4 Desktop enviroment > Abiword word processor > Gnumeric spreadsheet > Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program > Rhythmbox Music Player with support for iPod + iTunes sharing and Last.fm > Risretto image viewer > Fast and customizable Firefox 3 web browser > Easy package management with Synaptic Package Manager and gdebi > Transmission bittorrent client > Evince PDF viewer > File-roller archive manager with Thunar integration > > The first release is called "Hardy Hail" or just "Hail" for short. > > I welcome feedback on the forums or IRC channel (#stormos on > irc.freenode.net). > > Regards, > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-disc...@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
