Snowlinux 3 "Crystal" XFCE released!

Details: Category: Blog; Published on Sunday, 19 August 2012 09:31; Written by Lars; Hits: 5840

The team is proud to announce the release of Snowlinux 3 "Crystal" XFCE.

Snowlinux 3 XFCE

Due drastic changes with Gnome 3 and Unity, XFCE is growing more and more up. XFCE is quite similar to the most popular Desktop environment Gnome 2 and offers an alternative for all former Gnome 2 users. This is one of the reason why Snowlinux XFCE got so much new features and improvements. It should not lack some features and functions which are available in the main edition. We are trying to let XFCE act like Gnome 2 and to offer an alternative for all former Gnome 2 users.

New features:

DuckDuckGo
Firefox 14.1
Thunderbird 14
XFCE 4.8
Linux kernel 3.2 (more up-to-date kernel to support more hardware out-of-the-box)
Linux-Firmware-Nonfree (to support more hardware out-of-the-box)
Black terminal background
Updated software and packages
Better software selection
Improved speed and response
New look and feel
System improvements

Upstream information:

Snowlinux 3 "Crystal" is based upon Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" Stable. It comes with the long-term-support (LTS) Linux kernel 3.2 and XFCE 4.8 which were made available upstream. It has installed firefox, thunderbird, rhythmbox and shotwell by default.

Life cycle:

Snowlinux 3 "Crystal" is supported until Februar 2014.

Compatibility with Debian:

Snowlinux 3 "Crystal" is 100 % compatible with Debian's Repository.

System requirements:

x86-CPU
256 MB memory
2 GB free disk space
Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
CD-ROM drive or USB port

Md5sum:

32-bit: 89b294e306e99bfcebbc3d886937e188

64-bit: 75434e6a1891e64e0d1cccd2be08c742

Download:

32-bit

64-bit

We are looking forward to your comment on this release. Thank you for using Snowlinux and enjoy this new release.

Comments (8)

I can't update initramfs

8Sunday, 11 November 2012 08:34

Pierpaolo

I downloaded 32 bit version and the installation was ok, everything ok. When I installed plymouth, and did the update of initramfs , this was the answer :

pp@pp:~$ sudo update-initramfs -u
[sudo] password for pp:
/boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 does not exist. Cannot update.

???? °_°

7Friday, 21 September 2012 13:21

albertfils

please advise login (name and passwd) to boot in graphical on live

sounds good

6Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:35

minnie

Sounds really good, downloading now...

Hope you can afford a mate version as well, not ubuntu-based please :) stick with debian

So hard to get....

5Wednesday, 22 August 2012 09:34

cycle_mycle

I've been trying to get these iso's for days now (either xfce or gnome). I am not alowed to use ftp and to do it otherwise it takes wget or something like that. I finally got an iso, but the MD5 didn't match the website or the mirror.

Maybe you could make a torrent available or allow ftp transfers...

Thanks anyway, good luck with your project.

bug report ;-)

4Tuesday, 21 August 2012 12:13

mordesku

"Graphics card cap18c8035e2ae2caa541f9db47fa8967d7able of 800×600 resolution"

Little bug in description :)

snowlinux3-xfce

3Monday, 20 August 2012 23:32

Alan Kerns

I downloaded the 32-bit version and installed it on my backup machine. Note: my downloaded iso's md5sum did not match the sequence on your website, but it did match the md5sum from the mirror site. It installed OK, and the only inconvenience was libreoffice wouldn't install via the OS install apps. But I downloaded the latest version from Libreoffice and it installed and worked fine. So I proceeded to download and install the 64-bit version on my main computer. Again the md5sum matched the mirror's sequence. Installation proceeded smoothly and quickly UNTIL about 40% through the "Writing filesystem mount information" section whereupon installation ceased permanently. Exactly the same thing occurred when I tried a second time. I like your system, and supply this feedback hoping it will be useful.
Cheers.

snow

2Monday, 20 August 2012 05:29

chuck

Sounds like a perfect distro. I am downloading it now and if it is as good as I think it might be, I will love it.

Gnome 3? no.
KDE 4? no.
xfce? YES!

I'll be downloading the 64-bit version later(for my laptop).

Best wishes

why not xfce 4.10?

1Monday, 20 August 2012 04:37

Agvztíñ IV

4.8 is old