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| 2008-07-22 |
Distribution Release: NimbleX 2008 |
| Bogdan Radulescu announced the availability of the final version of NimbleX 2008, a Slackware-based mini distribution: "This version gets significant cleanups since NimbleX 2008RC, Bluetooth finally works OK, some improvements to the USB installer, significant changes on how NimbleX boots from remote locations (PXE & HTTP), several bug fixes, updates and several other things. I managed to make NimbleX a little slimmer and I also managed to squeeze in the latest VirtualBox so that people can run/test other OSs inside NimbleX. Partimage was added so you can easily clone disks and partitions with NimbleX thus resulting in some mass deployment functionality when users know their way around Linux. I guess here a small tutorial will be posted at some point..." Read the full release announcement for more information. Download (MD5): NimbleX-2008.iso (200MB). |
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| 2008-03-21 |
Development Release: NimbleX 2008 RC |
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| Bogdan Radulescu has announced the availability of the release candidate for NimbleX 2008, a Slackware-based mini distribution: "I am very pleased to announce the release candidate of NimbleX 2008! The important highlights since the beta release are: removed 16 MB of software to remain below 200 MB on the CD image; added the NimbleX USB installer; made improvements to the Safe installer; split NimbleX into 9 parts for greater flexibility; added important software, including LinuxDC++, Avidemux and the GSlapt package manager; polished many things so that it pleases the eye; added and configured Compiz. For starters, everyone who has a supported 3D card can enjoy the 3D effects. Hopefully, in the future, people will contribute to package drivers for this feature." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Download (MD5): NimbleX-2008RC.iso (200MB). |
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| 2008-02-03 |
Development Release: NimbleX 2008 Beta |
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| Bogdan Radulescu has announced the availability of a beta release of NimbleX 2008, a minimalist desktop live CD based on Slackware Linux: "NimbleX 2008 Beta has been released. After many months of using it, I finally decided that it's good enough to be released as a beta version of NimbleX 2008. The major highlights since NimbleX 2007 are: Experimental Safe Installer; better LZM compression; nine desktop environments. The Experimental Safe Installer is a single-click safe deployment to the hard disk. Nine desktop environments are included: KDE, Enlightenment 16 and 17, Xfce, IceWM, EDE, Fluxbox, OpenBox and TWM. Other significant additions are: GIMP, xine, Firefox, XMMS, GParted, ClamAV, support for RPM and DEB packages. The beta has many multimedia libraries included by default." Read the full release announcement for additional information. Download (MD5): NimbleX-2008_Beta.iso (217MB). |
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| 2007-09-29 |
Distribution Release: NimbleX sub100_1 |
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| Bogdan Radulescu has announced the first stable release of NimbleX sub100, a Slackware-based live CD that takes less than 100 MB on the CD, but still manages to fit in the KDE desktop. The highlights: "USB installer (slightly better than the one in 2007v2); added K3b so you can burn CDs and DVDs; added support for PDF files; more than 240 webcam models are supported; remote desktop for RDP and VNC protocols; added a modified version of Quax's kweb2mod to use software from the Internet; wizard to create the nimblex.data file to easily save changes; added Parted, iptables, Guarddog, wget, xfsutils, dosfstools, GRUB, gawk, less, unarj and nano." Read the full release announcement for more information. Download: NimbleX-sub100_1.iso (100MB). |
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| 2007-04-24 |
Distribution Release: NimbleX 2007v2 |
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| Bogdan Radulescu has announced the release of NimbleX 2007v2, a Slackware-based mini live CD: "NimbleX 2007v2 is out! NimbleX is a small but versatile operating system which is able to boot from an 8 cm CD, from flash memory or MP3 players. Because it runs entirely from a CD, USB or network it doesn't require installation or even much hardware. NimbleX is based on Slackware and Linux-Live scripts. NimbleX 2007v2 highlights: better wireless support; full automatic support for NTFS; changes in Fluxbox (fbpanel); added OpenBox, QuadConsole, Dillo, Guidedog; xconf2 (maybe wide screen will work); ALSA and other software updates; script for creating nimblex.data file; many bug fixes...." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download (MD5): NimbleX-2007v2.iso (200MB). |
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| September 2009 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're a online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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