ZevenOS Neptune also known as Neptune is a community driven branch of ZevenOS which is based on Debian "Testing". It is characterized by having a newer kernel, more drivers, and modern hardware support.
Unlike ZevenOS implements KDE4 and is optimized to run from a USB stick. The release of ZevenOS Neptune 2.0 is the first version to include two editions [full edition (with KDE SC) and minimal edition (with LXDE)].
Today ZevenOS Neptune is in version 3.0 "Brotkasten" and includes by default among other things:
- Kernel 3.8.4.
- KDE SC 4.10.1 with a custom notification center.
- New language selection tool.
- Hardware manager with support for experimental drivers.
- Improvements in the configuration of the default fonts.
- xserver-xorg-video-ati 7.0 for better ATI / AMD card support.
- Muon 2.0 RC2
- Libre Office 3.5.4-4
- Lancelot is the default application menu
- Chromium / FlashPlayer ...
These are some of its main features, but since nothing is perfect, this version is only available for those who use processors with 64-bit support, that is, no i386 packages.
Download
You can download this distribution from the following link:
Or they can only use their repositories by adding to the file / Etc / apt / sources.list the following lines:
deb http://proindi.de/zevenos/neptune/repo/ sid main deb http://proindi.de/zevenos/neptune/kde-repo/ sid main
That said, they should just run:
$ sudo aptitude update && aptitude install kde-workspace
If you want something more detailed regarding the installation, you can see this post.
I don't understand when it says "based on Debian Testing". The vast majority of those packages are not even in sid. So what does debian take, the package manager and the way to structure the system?
Grab the rest of the packages I guess .. I haven't tested it yet, but I understand it uses the Debian Wheezy repository + its own repository.
They take EVERYTHING from Debian and add their own repos with their bundled software.
Exactly
David:
Being based on a distro does not mean that they only use their software and repositories (although there are those who do), but that they start from there and add the improvements they prefer.
In the case of Mint in the Debian edition, they are based on Testing as well, but when they do their job (if you check the list of LMDE repositories you will notice) they remove the Debian repositories and put only the Mint ones, and that it is what they offer as a final product, based on Debian testing.
Very good elav, I use the repositories of this distro to have Kde 4.10.1 in Debian Sid and the truth is that it is very stable.
Yes, the bad thing is that I use 32 bits ..
Ah, what a pity you have to wait for it to be in the semi-official qt / kde then.
To download it has been said !!!
this distro looks interesting ...
I have tried it, it is a good distro, I have only found two problems, the first is that to install the latest nvidia drivers, I must activate the experimental repo ..., the second is that I have not been able to make steam work because of the i386 dependencies unsatisfied and most of the times I tried to satisfy them, I was wrong 🙁
Hello,
Have you tried installing the ia32-libs package? this package contains a group of libraries necessary to run 32-bit programs not compatible with 64-bit. I don't know if the name changes in debian, I guess not.
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Hello, I have gone to access the web of the distro and I have seen that they have released version 6 and that it will be the last. a greeting