Again, looks like I’m always late. Sorry for the delay people but I had some serious problems with reconstructor and am even going to write a little guide in my Blog about it, but now at least the i386 beta live CD of OpenGEU 8.04 Luna Crescente is here and it works
Download it, seed it, spread it and install it if you don’t have OpenGEU yet. Or you can just upgrade from a previous OpenGEU system following our guide. If you prefer, of course install our distribution from packages
The Beta release is somehow an RC candidate, as I said, and I’m going to build now a Live CD for 64bit machins too, just give me some time since I don’t have a native 64 bit system. The new Ubuntu is close and this release is getting somehow weird in timing but fear not, it is a great release and it works really fine, there has been tons of updates and new software and it is based on an LTS, therefore it will surely last for long on your system
Enjoy the great work of the OpenGEU team and thanks to every single member who made this enormous step forward in developing a user friendly E17 system possible!
So, what are you waiting for? Download the iso now and burn it!

I’m really happy to announce you this great new: OpenGEU Luna Crescente’s development just reached the Beta stage and we are now ready to show you all the progresses we’ve done from the Alpha release. You can get the beta only from the repos right now but we’ll have iso released for both i386 and amd64 machines by tomorrow.

To release the new OpenGEU we decided to change our repositories. We previously used Dunnewind as you surely know, but recently there has been a huge problem with their repos and all of you users had a very hard time upgrading. So, to be more independent, thanks to the great work of Quaker66, new member of our team, we developed a new repository, with a full version of E17, a very updated one. We’ll try to upgrade to a new E17 release every time it become significant or every month in any case.

Thanks to this upgrades and the work of our team members, in the Beta version of OpenGEU Luna Crescente you’ll find exciting new tools and features, such as:

• A very updated E17 system
• A working Trash Bin module
• Wonderful and really fast new OpenGEU themes: Murrina Sunshine and Murrina Moonlight
• A new and features rich OpenGEU themes manager
• A very fast settings daemon (no more gnome-settings-daemon, for now we use xfce-mcs-manager but Quaker66 is developing a new daemon already)
• Using the new Echo module for audio
• An ever growing number of OpenGEU themes for every taste and of every kind
• Various bug-fixesx

Hope you’ll enjoy this release and keep reporting important bugs and features requests
We have big plans for the future, we just need an help from volunteer coders and any other kind of donation / general help

To get the new OpenGEU Luna Crescente Beta version, you have several options. If you are upgrading from the Alpha release, please use this guide, if you are installing OpenGEU in any normal Ubuntu system or derivate, you should instead read this. If you experienced any problem during the upgrade or a previous update due to the Dunnewind problem, please read this guide before anything else. The Beta is very stable and you are encouraged in using it, no matter if it’s not a full release yet, believe me
We’ll try to keep you up and running with a fresh and working repository, trying to avoid any other problem with the repos!

Just to let you know I’m working hard on new themes, thanks to Jorge Mariani’s help. Right now we already developed a working Murrina Sunshine Theme, already available for download from our repos, and the Murrina Moonlight is almost finished.

While I wait for Jorge to implement the pieces of the wallpaper into a working animated e17 background, I’m creating OpenGEU themes, hope you’ll like them

All of the wallpapers are by Verdegal, you can find them all in the wiki. The e17 themes are taken from the great exchange site and the gnome icons and themes are from gnome-look! Enjoy

Bloody Imago

Simply White