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!
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thank you very much!
Excellent!
Happy Panda!!!
Happy you are happy
The theme looks wonderful on the new 8.04 Opengeu. Though my pet peeve - wubi, has still not been fixed. When you try to install opengeu inside windows the installation never starts as it is unable to find a window manager. I strongly recommend that this feature be added as it will attract linux newbies (like this humble bloke !!) to Opengeu…and again, great job, keep it up !!
Hi Anjum, unfortunately WUBI is only for official Ubuntu releases… so unless they decide to support us, there’s no way people will be able to install OpenGEU with Wubi
But you can install ubuntu and than install OpenGEU packages on it! It will work perfectly
I am trying to install 8.04.1 from packages but when I do a aptitude install opengeu-desktop I get the following:
Need to get 3930B of archives. After unpacking 45.1kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
opengeu-desktop: Depends: gnome-cups-manager which is a virtual package.
Unable to resolve dependencies! Giving up…
The following packages are BROKEN:
opengeu-desktop
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 3930B of archives. After unpacking 45.1kB will be used.
aptitude failed to find a solution to these dependencies. You can solve them yourself by hand or type ‘n’ to quit.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
opengeu-desktop: Depends: gnome-cups-manager which is a virtual package.
Resolve these dependencies by hand? [N/+/-/_/:/?]
Wondering if you might know a quick way to fix this.
I have installed 8.04.1 on my laptop with the LiveCD and love it but my desktop has alot of junk on it I can’t lose right now so I need to do the package install for it.