This is the official OpenGEU 8.04 Luna Crescente Alpha release. It’s a Live CD, so you can burn it and run it Live on any machine without hurting your system at all! In this release there has been a big number of changes on the software side, a lot of new tools and E17 modules are included and many of these softwares have been directly developed by our team.

Since OpenGEU Luna Nuova, a lot has changed and now there’s no extra panel in OpenGEU, no fbpanel and no gnome panel anymore. The user will be able to find any gnome tool needed in the very convenient OpenGEU menu entry of the E17 menu. The system tray can be found on the lower right corner of the screen thanks to trayer and should you miss fbpanel for any reason, you’ll just have to download the OpenGEU customized version of the panel from Synaptic!

The alpha version is already fully working and if you wish you can install it and use it on your machine, the system works like a charm and in the future releases we’ll just focus on bug-hunting and in creating new wonderful themes. So, if you find any bug, please report it to our development ML or to our forums. Enjoy the new OpenGEU

1. verdegal37, June 3, 2008:

   Congratulation to all the members of the team.
   Thank you by its work.
   Alone fact in lack the option to clean recent files from OPenGEU board.
   Greetings:
   Agust

2. thedarkmaster, June 3, 2008:

   Ehm… what do you mean Agust? What’s the problem?

3. verdegal37, June 3, 2008:

   No no problem Luca.
   I write this post in Spanish.
   Solo digo que hecho en falta la opcion “limpiar documentos recientes” desde el menu OpenGEU.
   Un saludo:
   Agust

4. IMQ, June 3, 2008:

   How do I install the 8.04 Alpha to the HD?

   I can’t find the option in the menu.

   Thanks.

5. IMQ, June 3, 2008:

   Never mind the previous post.

   I saw the install option icon in the *task bar* right after I posted the message. I was looking for the option thru the *Start* button.

6. verdegal37, June 5, 2008:

   Well , a question , live cd OpenGEU 8.04 luna Crescente Alpha install OpenGEU-desktop-3.036 instead of OpenGEU-lc4gutsy-desktop is correct?
   Greetings:
   Agust

7. thedarkmaster, June 5, 2008:

   Yeah, opengeu-lc4gutsy is only for those using Gutsy Gibbon. OpenGEU LC Alpha is based on hardy already

8. wlake, June 6, 2008:

   I just want to thank you for the wonderful work you have done. This has become my main distro.
   Regards,
   wlake

9. zoe, June 19, 2008:

   Me too! just wanted to say how much I am very happy with 8.04, I am no computer wizz but I have toyed with many many linux distros, every windows, fab BeOS and Mac and this distro is the best. A galaxy of thank yous for this brilliant system. Have Fun

10. thedarkmaster, June 19, 2008:

    You’re all welcome my friends! We’re working hard to deliver you a great beta with new themes for your eyes’s pleasure
    And for you computer’s pleasure too since the new themes are really veeeeery fast.

11. verdegal37, June 21, 2008:

    Well OpenGEU remained fantastic , as usual.
    Thank you by its work.
    Greetings:
    Agust

    PD:i like what says zoe “Brilliant system”

12. indepthsight, July 6, 2008:

    Hi there Luca,

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13. Pochepoke, July 8, 2008:

    Live CD work very fine, but I’ve a question: How can I change system tray to lower left corner? Sorry for my bad english.

    Thank you!

14. thedarkmaster, July 12, 2008:

    Hi pochepoke (I love Final Fantasy Unlimited ), it is not yet configurable with a graphical tool, you have to edit the file you find in:

    /usr/share/applications/trayer.desktop

    For an extensive list of the options accepted by trayer, you can very easily tpe in a terminal:

    trayer –help

    Hope this helps

15. MB1, July 16, 2008:

    Greetings Darkmaster,

    I’m wanting to try your nice looking distro…but….

    I’m wondering if there is a problem with the 8.04 OpenGEU files in the repos. I’m running KDE3.5.9 Hardy on amd64-bit. I’ve tried to use the packages by Adept–but the OpenGEU-Desktop won’t install. It warns that installing will “Break”-only on that package.

    When I sudo apt-get install OpenGEU-desktop I get:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    opengeu-desktop: Depends: opengeu-luna-nuova-themes but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: emodule-extramenu-opengeu-data but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: emodule-bling but it is not installable
    Depends: geutheme but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: emodule-calendar but it is not installable

16. thedarkmaster, July 16, 2008:

    That’s because we’re still working to support 64bit machines.

17. URig, July 30, 2008:

    My first impression from the alpha-liv CD: sleek,smart and shiny. So I install.
    That still worked as a charm. And then the bugs started at A with audio-cd and ended so far at U like update. I will try to report them systematically in the forum.
    Also a lot of inconsistencies or gaps in the documentation/ installation instructions (e.g. sources and keys) between the versions.
    But as I said the idea is appealing so I rather help with the bug-hunt. then whine and run.
    So long and thanks for all the eyecandy.
    URig

18. thedarkmaster, July 30, 2008:

    thanks to you for the support.

19. alexandre, August 5, 2008:

    This is a great distro. Can’t wait to see what you do with Intrepid when it comes out.