<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">should read<img src="http://mail.yimg.com/a/i/mesg/tsmileys2/04.gif"> Ristretto image viewer, not risretto, on your initial stormos homepage.<br><br><div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Andrew Stormont <andyjstormont@googlemail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net; gnusol-users@lists.sonic.net; xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com; opensolaris-announce@opensolaris.org; xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 5, 2009 9:02:00 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [xubuntu-users] StormOS Beta ISO out<br></font><br> Hi everybody,<br><div> <p>The StormOS Hail Beta ISO has now been released and is available for download immediately, grab it <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://stormos.org/node/59">here</a>. <br></p><p></p><p>StormOS is the first desktop distribution based on Nexenta Core Platform 2 which combines the power of the Solaris kernel with the ease of use of Ubuntu. It aims to be a lightweight OS with everything the average user would want out-of-the-box. </p> <p>The project was started due to my dissatisfaction with OpenSolaris. I found it slow on my netbook, and although it runs great on my desktop I dislike IPS. APT is much nicer.</p> <p>Out of the box it includes:</p> <ul><li>Polished Xfce 4 Desktop enviroment</li><li>Abiword word processor</li><li>Gnumeric spreadsheet</li><li>Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program</li><li>Rhythmbox Music Player with support for iPod + iTunes sharing and <a target="_blank" href="http://Last.fm">Last.fm</a></li> <li>Risretto image viewer</li><li>Fast and customizable Firefox 3 web browser</li><li>Easy package management with Synaptic Package Manager and gdebi</li><li>Transmission bittorrent client</li><li>Evince PDF viewer</li><li> File-roller archive manager with Thunar integration</li></ul> <p>The first release is called "Hardy Hail" or just "Hail" for short.</p> <p>I welcome feedback on the forums or IRC channel (#stormos on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a>).</p><p>Regards,<br>Andy<br></p><p></p></div><br> </div></div></div></div><br> </body></html>