Ebuntu

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 Ebuntu , with the clean and beautiful design of Ubuntu Linux?

Ebuntu is a project towards that goal.

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)

I should be able produce a install by the time Dapper releases (april 2006)

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 iso is ready. It's working here without any major hiccups

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

Installing

Ebuntu 5.10 beta will be available as a live cd in a few days. The page will be updated when the cd has been uploaded.

Package selection

While selecting packages into Ebuntu, one must keep in mind that a consistent user interface must be provided and that we should deviate from Ubuntu as less as possible. Thus for the first release i have made the following changes to the Ubuntu LiveCD

Removed - GNome and all its dependencies - OpenOffice (just for size reasons)

Added - E17 + all the nice eye-candy apps

Artwork

Logo, Usplash, gdm theme, wallpapers, etc. We would also like loads and loads of epplets

Documentation

The [http://doc.ubuntu.com Documentation Team] is organising documentation for Ebuntu, and for more please contact [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Manishchakravarty Manish Chakravarty]

Contributing

This distro is just starting. Any sort of help is welcome the #ebuntu IRC channel on irc.freenode.org is the point of contact for us now

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.