Igelle

PermaBanned · 4 Mar 2010 at 20:49

Has anyone tried igelle Linux yet?

http://www.igelle.com/

Version 1.0.0 was released last week. Distrowatch has an entry for it this week. It appears to be a light weight (.iso file is 587 MB), highly adaptable OS using a custom desktop called Esther. Epiphany is the default web browser. The selection of installable packages seems limited to someone used to the Mint/Ubuntu repositories, but it seems to include most of the popular apps.

JHeaton · 4 Mar 2010 at 21:40

Not yet, but it did catch my attention. As soon as I've got my main box sorted out with Arch and installed VirtualBox on it, I'll be testing Igelle in a VM. So if you'd like me to feed back on my experiences, I will do. It certainly does look interesting

Edit: Downloading from their site is sloooooowwwwwww... :/

PermaBanned · 5 Mar 2010 at 17:31

I'm also interested in seeing how the M Series turns out. There's an increasing number of mobile operating systems in the market and from where i'm standing it looks as though the only way for a new one to really stand out from the crowd and be used is for it to be easily installable on as many existing devices as possible.

craptakular · 5 Mar 2010 at 17:50

What netbook/mobile OS's are catching your eye?

I just dusted off my Toshiba NB100 netbook and installed Ubuntu NBR 9.10, it's pretty neat and makes good use of the screen. It would be better to use openbox WM underneath as I think it would be a little more zappy.

PermaBanned · 5 Mar 2010 at 17:56

That's just it - few of them do catch my eye. But still, there's Meego, Bada, Ubuntu MID, LiMo, Maemo etc. on the mobile side and mainly just Moblin and Jollicloud for netbooks (and of course the Ubuntu NBR).

craptakular · 5 Mar 2010 at 18:00

Ah see, I tried moblin before but it seemed more aimed at the "I sit in the coffe shop and go on my facebook page all day" crowd.

I think it was aimed at more of a mobile person than me and my netbook lol.

PermaBanned · 5 Mar 2010 at 18:10

Kind of off topic here, but don't you think that Moblin would be the perfect 'my first OS'?

craptakular · 5 Mar 2010 at 18:23

Superewza said:
Kind of off topic here, but don't you think that Moblin would be the perfect 'my first OS'?

It was easy to install and looked jazzy, but last time i looked seemed hard to customize it.

JHeaton · 5 Mar 2010 at 23:15

Well, I just began my experiment and I'm not entirely sure what to think. Booted from the ISO in VirtualBox (assigned the VM 512MB RAM and single core emulation). Boot took about ten seconds. Went straight for the installation, double-clicking the desktop icon. I told it to auto-partition and install. This took less than one minute to do. Shocking! :eek:

Rebooted, unmounted the image, then was asked some basic configuration options. Hostname, time, date and timezone, then a user account. Took two minutes to do this (but only because I paused to turn the TV on to watch Iron Maiden in concert on BBC4

). Rebooted again and now I'm at a usable desktop. Looks decent, though I don't like the default translucent menus.

I will keep you updated as I go on, but at the moment memory usage within the VM at boot is 126MB. Total install size, before installing any applications, is 749MB. This is significantly more than Arch (which, even with all my customisations, only used 550MB-ish and 85MB RAM when I booted in to X). However, that is still mighty impressive since it's running transparency and stuff, though in my experience installs in VMs are for some reason lighter on resources - probably due to less drivers being required. Anyway, play-time is go...

alex24 · 5 Mar 2010 at 23:20

Still a bit OT, but I tried Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my Asus 1001HA and the battery life compared to XP dropped at least a couple of hours. I don't have the know-how to fix that, and there aren't any Asus utilities that work properly written for linux compared to those with XP.

Although the interface is a lot nicer, I'd rather have the battery life. If win 7 can match battery life of XP then it's the no-brainer choice tbh.

Moblin/jolicloud are too web-centric for my needs.

PermaBanned · 6 Mar 2010 at 00:12

Ubuntu NBR should be about the same as XP resource usage wise... if it's battery life you're after then:

http://www.slitaz.org/en/

3.0 is due out on the 15th

alex24 · 6 Mar 2010 at 01:42

Superewza said:
Ubuntu NBR should be about the same as XP resource usage wise... if it's battery life you're after then:

http://www.slitaz.org/en/

3.0 is due out on the 15th

Looks great for some lightweight work, but not sure how well it stacks up for a general purpose OS.

Nice suggestion, thanks.

PermaBanned · 6 Mar 2010 at 01:54

Meh, perhaps not. But the last cooking i tried was great, Xorg, Openbox, a decent graphical package manager, nice interface... what more do you really need from a netbook OS? Sure, there was a bit more CLI brought forward into the GUI but it was masterfully done. With 3.0 i think it will be a welcome addition to my bootloader

alex24 · 6 Mar 2010 at 02:00

Superewza said:
Meh, perhaps not. But the last cooking i tried was great, Xorg, Openbox, a decent graphical package manager, nice interface... what more do you really need from a netbook OS? Sure, there was a bit more CLI brought forward into the GUI but it was masterfully done. With 3.0 i think it will be a welcome addition to my bootloader

Aye, it's certainly worth a try. I have a few apps that will only work on windows that I need on the netbook, so XP is on anyway. UNR tempted me away for web browsing, which is the main use anyway, but the power management just isn't up to scratch yet as I said. When 3.0 comes I'll have a look.