Snowlinux 2 "Ice" RC released!

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Published on Sunday, 05 February 2012 15:47
Written by Lars
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The team is proud to announce the release of Snowlinux 2 "Ice" RC.

 

Snowlinux 2 Ice


Due drastic changes with Gnome 3 and Unity, Snowlinux is keeping Gnome 2. Snowlinux 2 "Ice" comes with the GTK theme Snowlinux-Metal-Theme, the Icon set was set to Snowlinux-Metal-Theme-Icons and the system font is "Ubuntu" by default. Also present in this edition is an improved live-installer which detects country, offers keyboard variants and uses UUID in fstab. It has installed a firewall called gufw. Apturl was ported from Ubuntu to Debian and it was made functional. To improve the difference between user and root terminal the terminal colors were introduced. To be more out-of-the-box OpenJDK 6 Java has been made availble in the default installation. Snowlinux 2 "Ice" comes with chromium-browser, icedove, rhythmbox, shotwell.


New features:

  • Improved installer (keyboard variants, UUID in fstab)
  • contrib, non-free, debian-multimedia repository
  • Firewall
  • Apturl
  • Terminal colors
  • Open as administrator
  • Open in terminal
  • OpenJDK 6 Java
  • Updated software and packages
  • Better software selection
  • Improved speed and response
  • New look and feel
  • System improvements

 

Upstream information:

Snowlinux 2 "Ice" is based upon Linux Debian 6 "Squeeze" Stable. It comes with the long-term-support (LTS) Linux kernel 2.6.32 and Gnnome 2.30 which were made available upstream. It has installed chromium-browser, icedove, rhythmbox and shotwell by default.

 

Life cycle:

Snowlinux 2 is supported until Februar 2014.

 

Compatibility with Debian:

Snowlinux is 100 % compatible with Debian's Repository.

 

System requirements:

  • x86-CPU
  • 256 MB memory
  • 2 GB free disk space
  • Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
  • CD-ROM drive or USB port

 

Md5sum:

32-bi: ca78a651791a37339ea36ade03d590ab

64-bit: 47fc662a49173ec0d168ae0e0ab32ec1

 

Download:

32-bit

32-bit

64-bit

64-bit

 

We are looking forward to your comment on this RC. Thank you for using Snowlinux and enjoy this new release.

Comments (27)
Trying to find out the error
27Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:13
Lars
Hello Bob!

I am trying to find out the error. The problem is I only have a vague imagination about this error. I will try to reproduce this situation. Maybe you can upload a screenshot?

Greetings,
Lars
tray - font sizes
26Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:17
rjsyrnyk
...after I have selected the fonts and their sizes for my desktop, I find that when switching "themes", the fonts in the tray become very small when using the "snowlinux-metal-theme", but return to selected sizes for ALL other themes. Is there a fixed setting for tray fonts in the "metal" theme ?

...Bob...
Dont know...
25Saturday, 11 February 2012 19:42
Lars
Hello!

I Dont know what you mean.
tray fonts solved
24Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:42
rjsyrnyk
...the problem is associated with the "snowlinux-metal-theme"...
...all other themes show tray fonts correctly...
...enjoy SnowLinux everyone...
What do you mean?
23Friday, 10 February 2012 22:21
Lars

Hello! What do you mean? Can you post a screenshot? The desktop should look after installation as well as in the live CD. Greetings, Lars

Tray fonts
22Friday, 10 February 2012 21:37
RJSyrnyk
After a harddrive install, tray fonts are tiny...can they not match desktop fonts...
...Bob...
Danke Leszek
21Friday, 10 February 2012 13:47
Lars
Hi Leszek!

Danke.

Grüße
Lars
Weiter so...
20Friday, 10 February 2012 13:46
LL
Macht weiter so und released eine ordentliche Final.
Thank you both! 3
19Friday, 10 February 2012 13:19
Lars
Hello you two,

thank you.
32bit ISO error
18Friday, 10 February 2012 02:16
RJSyrnyk
Thanks for the fix...wow...this OS is nice...
I am running it from HD right now...
...Bob...
thanks a bunch
17Thursday, 09 February 2012 21:56
skilo
i just want to thank you so much for making a debian based gnome 2 distro i hope gnome2 lives forever!
Hello lorvi!
16Thursday, 09 February 2012 13:10
Lars
Hello lorvi!

Thank you for your interest and thank you for your praise. You can stop it by typing: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop.

Greetings,
Lars
nvidia drivers
15Thursday, 09 February 2012 12:58
lorvi
how to install nvidia drivers? i use command "sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run", but it says "x server is running"or etc. how to stop x-server ? please help somebody...
Hello Pat!
14Thursday, 09 February 2012 11:42
Lars

Hello Pat! Thank you for your praise. Greetings, Lars

Werbung
13Thursday, 09 February 2012 11:31
pAt

Hello Lars, great, there is life now around snowlinux :) But could you please afford a website without the very annoying advertisments? Better to collect donations. pAt

Error in the 32-bit iso
12Wednesday, 08 February 2012 16:54
Lars
Hello!

It was an error in the 32-bit iso. Please download it again
thank you for your interest.

Greetings,
Lars
SL2 Ice Install
11Wednesday, 08 February 2012 16:51
RSyrnyk
Looks great in live session, so I tried an install. Progress stopped at "calculating file indexes", with no progress after 30 minutes !! What could cause that lock-up ?? I would sure like to run it from my hard-drive. I'm in Canada, using English on my computer.
Thank you both.
10Wednesday, 08 February 2012 09:39
Lars
Hello you three,

thank you both really to your praise.

@Christian: You can do it with UNetbootin.

Greetings,
Lars
how to make a bootable usb?
9Wednesday, 08 February 2012 07:24
Christian
Hello,

My usb-creator-gtk fails in making a bootable snowlinux, while my iso works fine in virtualbox.

How to make a bootable usb ?

Even the earch function here dit not hel me ..


Cheers,
Thank god it's not GNOME 3
8Wednesday, 08 February 2012 06:16
bogie5464
I have been desperately searching for a non vanilla distro that's not GNOME 3. I hate GNOME 3. I have finally found the one I'm looking for. Thank you.
Nice!
7Wednesday, 08 February 2012 04:15
Diabolus
Look forward to testing this distrubition! Always did like Gnome 2... and love that it is based on Debian. Thanks for all the work y'all put into it!
Thankyou5
6Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:09
Lars
Hello,

thank you, Fabian.

Greetings,
Lars
snowlinux 2 ice
5Tuesday, 07 February 2012 15:45
fabi
looks good
Difference
4Tuesday, 07 February 2012 09:28
Lars
Hello linuxnut69!

we want to offer an user-friendly distro with the traditional desktop.

Hallo crunchbanger!
Die De Domain...naja...eigentlich wollten wir die com, welche jedoch belegt sind. Daher haben wir uns für snowlinux.eu (und snowlinux.de) entschieden. Jedoch ist mit Englisch ja eine globale Sprache vorhanden und somit denke ich doch mal kein Problem.
Wir sind jedoch dran, dass es für verschiedene Länder verschiedene Sprachen gibt. Heißt, wenn du als Deutscher auf diese Seite (*.de oder *.eu) gehst, auch Deutsch als Sprache erhälst. Wohingegen z. B. die USA dann Englisch erhält.
Die Besonderheiten sind, dass wir den Leuten ein klassisches aussehendes Linux anbieten.

Hello Nikola!
Thank you for your praise. These bugs will be fixed in stable release.

Greetings,
Lars
Deutsches Debian?
3Tuesday, 07 February 2012 08:25
crunchbanger
Hallo, eine .de und nur englische Sprache? Ein Debian Stable und kaum Infos zu der "Besonderheit" und Sinn dieses Forks? Nichts gegen eine private Website mit einer Distro, aber sagt doch bitte auch wieso ihr sie macht.
how is this different
2Tuesday, 07 February 2012 05:04
linuxnut69
Just wondering how snowlinux is different from any other distro. what is it based off of ? why not more drivers included ?
intel wifi
1Monday, 06 February 2012 23:36
Nikola
I give it a spin form the live CD:

Banshee crashes on start, sound settings display error and i have problem loading my iwlwifi driver.

Is it possible to include some extra wifi drivers for intel and older broadcom chips and maybe video drivers too?

Anyway I like the distro so far, keep up the good work.

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