Ebuntu

Ebuntu Packages are ready for download and testing!. Please read the "Installing" section below

Introduction

Life isn't fair. All distro's arent created equal. Some are boring , others not as configurable as we want. Then we have Enlightenment, the window manager for the rest of us.

So why not have the eye-candy and configurability of Enlightenment, with the clean and beautiful design of Ubuntu Linux?

Ebuntu is a project towards that goal.

DISCLAIMER:

1) Ebuntu packages must be considered beta quality software. As of now, they are neither devloped , maintained or supported by the Ubuntu developers or packagers ( [https://wiki.ubuntu.com MOTU]'s.

2)Ebuntu is NOT an official Ubuntu project yet. We hope to make it by Dapper +1. This version of Ebuntu may be considered a preview to that release.

3) Ebuntu IS stable enough to considered for beta use. Help is required in packaging.

Objective

The objective of the Ebuntu community project is to provide the maximum eye candy for the end-user using the enlightenment window manager and the related libraries.

The initial plan is to provide E17 on a livecd (derived from the Ubuntu LiveCD). To go towards making a live cd, Ebuntu packages have been uploaded [http://ftp.ubuntu.org.cn/ebuntu-packages/ here]. Please read the installing section on how to install E17 to your current Ubuntu installation.

Ebuntu aims to become "offical" by dapper + 1 release.

Ebuntu aims to provide an enhanced and attractive user-interface. The secondary aim of Ebuntu is to show off the eye-candy capabilites of the linux operating system in general and Ubuntu in particular

What has been done till now

Quite a lot / Not much yet. Depends on your point of view The package files are ready. It's working here without any major hiccups

We dont have a mailing list or our space on the ubuntu servers yet

#ebuntu on irc.freenode.net is our IRC channel now. Please discuss everything there

Coming soon

1) Space on sourceforge.net, till we get access to the Ubuntu repository

2) Our own mailing lists

Downloading

The Ebuntu packages (34 MB in total) can be downloaded from

1) [http://ftp.ubuntu.org.cn/ebuntu-packages/ Ubuntu LoCo (China) ]

2) [http://ninja.fetaste.com/ebuntu-packages/ Fetaste.com (US)]

You can download from either of these locations.

For installation instructions, read below.

Installing

Ebuntu 5.10 beta1 is ready and can be downloaded (see the DOWNLOADS section above) . Please read the INSTALL file carefully before installing.

These are the packages which will set up e17 on your system.

The same packages can be used to build an E17 live cd. I am in the process of doing it now. I need FTP servers to host the iso, if you interested, please [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Manishchakravarty contact me].

It will be possible to install Ebuntu to hard drive. Kindly follow the instruction given in [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDInstallHowTo Live CD Install Howto]

Package selection (This applies to the Ebuntu live cd only)

What's Added

+Ebuntu has E17 compiled from CVS with generous options.

+Endeavour2 File manager

+Sylpheed Claws (Email Client)

+Abiword

+Gnumeric (spreadsheet)

What's been removed

-GNOME Desktop Environment

-OpenOffice office suite.

NOTE:

1) OpenOffice and Evolution has been removed due to space constraints.

2) The non GUI part , the core and the the X server are EXACTLY the same as Ubuntu 5.10 , thus making it a Ubuntu sister distro

3) Ebuntu can be "converted" into Ubuntu by a simple "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop". Same holds true for Kubuntu, Edubuntu @ Xubuntu.

Artwork

Logo, Usplash, gdm theme, wallpapers, etc.

REQUIRED: People to help with the artwork and the theming.

Documentation

Contributing

REQUIRED:

• 1) People to help with the artwork and the theming. 2)People who have experience with debian packages 3) MIRRORS

This distro is just starting. Any sort of help is welcome

TODO: Set up a mailing list. More on this as it happens

For the time being, please contact [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Manishchakravarty Manish Chakravarty] at manishchakravarty@yahoo.co.in. You may also use the ubuntu-users list for the time being.