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 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

Coming soon

1) Space on sourceforge.net, till we get access to the Ubuntu repository 2) Our own mailing lists 3) Of course, an IRC channel

Installing

Ebuntu 5.10 beta will be available A debian package. We hope to make it to a cd when Dapper Drake ships (April 2006)

Package selection

Ebuntu has E17 compiled from CVS with generous options. Then a .deb file is made out of it. The deb file will be distributed as 'Ebuntu-desktop-beta for the time being and 'Ebuntu-desktop later on.

Artwork

Logo, Usplash, gdm theme, wallpapers, etc.

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

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

REQUIRED: === 1 === People to help with the artwork and the theming. === 2 === People who have experience with debian packagese

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.