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.

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.

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).

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'?

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

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