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[Flavia Weisghizzi]

Testo136: FLAVOR OF THE MONTH

Testo137: Written by Luca De Marini

Testo151: Many of you may not recognise the name. OpenGEU was previously 
known as Geubuntu but we had to change its name because of Ubuntu 
trademarks. Since GEU is not a real remix (it doesn't use official 
Ubuntu repositories only) it's not right for us to use the Ubuntu name 
in our derivative.

Testo256: OpenGEU is a normal Ubuntu distro using Enlightenment DR17 and 
some bits of GNOME to render the desktop instead of the standard GNOME 
Desktop Environment or KDE from Kubuntu or XFCE4 from Xubuntu. This 
means a lot of things. To resume the main points: • E17 is beta 
software, so OpenGEU may have some bugs we didn't notice. In this case, 
please report them in our forum, ML or IRC Channel. Also, there are some 
known bugs we're trying to shut down. Please refer to our wiki, which is 
in our main site, to learn more about known bugs. • E17 is filled with 
eye-candy but with very low hardware requirements. This means that 
OpenGEU may even be faster than Xubuntu on your machine but it will give 
you an incredible look and with amazing animations. • Since E17 is a 
window manager, you won't be able to use it with Compiz. But to say that 
Compiz is the master of 3D effects, then E17 is the almighty Lord of 2D 
effects. Also E17 will give you very elegant and amazing effects without 
asking you for a 3D card or a powerful machine, so it will run smoothly 
and perfectly even on a Virtual Machine! That's an incredible plus. Ten 
Step Installation That said, let's start with the real installation. 
Warm up your CD burner, load your preferred burning software (K3B, 
Brasero, Gnome-Backer, Nautilus-Burn, anything will do), download the 
OpenGEU ISO and burn it to an empty CD. If you are planning to try 
OpenGEU on a VM then you don't need to burn the ISO on a CD. You can run 
the disto straightly from the .iso file. You can download and use, for 
free, the Open Source virtualization application VirtualBox 
<http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/VirtualBox> (http://www.virtualbox.org). You 
can find an article of mine about VirtualBox 
<http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/VirtualBox> in Full Circle #5 
(http://fullcirclemagazine.org).

Put the OpenGEU CD into the CD-Rom drive of your machine and boot it up. 
Remember to set up the BIOS so that your CD-ROM drive is loaded before 
your hard disk is, otherwise OpenGEU won't boot. Remember to back-up 
your important data before installing OpenGEU. Even though you shouldn't 
have any problems, better safe than sorry.

The CD boots and you see the screen above, with a number of options 
available. You can Check the CD for defects before you start the Live 
CD, this way you'll be sure that the ISO has been burned correctly so 
that you won't have any nasty surprises during the installation process. 
After a check (you can also skip it at your risk) choose 'Start or 
Install Ubuntu'. The screen will turn black with some white code showing 
for a few seconds, this is OpenGEU booting up.

Here you are on the OpenGEU desktop! The warm and happy 'Sunshine' theme 
welcomes you. Note that even the background is animated. You can access 
any application by left clicking on any empty zone of the desktop or on 
the OpenGEU logo on the golden bottom shelf. You'll also find a top 
panel, auto-hidden for your convenience, filled with important applets 
such as Trash, tray icon space, 'Preferences and Settings' menus and so 
on. You can test the distro in this Live mode but remember that since it 
is booted from a CD it will, of course, be very slow and you won't be 
able to save your settings and customizations. Any time you wish to, you 
can switch to the 'Moonlight' theme from Sunshine and vice versa by 
launching the OpenGEU theme switcher from the 'Preferences' menu in the 
top panel. Whenever you're ready to install OpenGEU, just double click 
on the install desktop icon. Then comes the usual Ubuntu installer. 
Choose your language and press the 'Next' button. Choose your time-zone 
from the map. This is needed to set up not only date and time but also 
the locale-settings which OpenGEU will download for your installation. 
It is important that you are connected to the Internet when you install 
OpenGEU if you want to have a completely localized OpenGEU system, for 
example, if you are Italian, like me, the installation tool will 
download and install for you the Italian language support for all of 
your applications and desktop. If you cannot connect to the internet 
during install, you will have to manually download later, through 
Synaptic, a package called language-support-*, where * stands for your 
locale language. For example, it is “it” for Italian 
(language-support-it), “fr” for French and so on. Now you can choose the 
keyboard layout for your system, it is automatically set by the 
installer, but should you believe it to be wrong, just change it, click 
next and move to the next step. You will now be asked to manage your 
hard disk's partitions. Be careful on this step. The installer will now 
ask you for personal details as well as some important data such as the 
username and password you'll be using on your daily use of OpenGEU. Each 
time you attempt to do an administrator operation, OpenGEU will ask you 
for the password. I suggest you to choose something easy to type and 
remember, but be sure that it is not an easy to guess password too for 
security reasons. In this step you can insert your real name, but be 
sure that the network name and username doesn't reveal your real data, 
again, only for security reasons (imagine being in an airport, connected 
to their wireless network with your laptop and a network name such as: 
name_lastname_laptop. It would be paradise for a malicious hacker.) The 
installer will display all your previous choices for you to double check 
and by pressing the next button again, the installation will start for 
real and you'll see a progress bar. At the end of the installation 
process press enter to reboot, remember to remove the CD when asked.

After reboot, you'll see the OpenGEU Sunshine Usplash theme. After 
entering your username and password on the login window, you'll be 
logged for the first time on a virgin OpenGEU desktop. Now you can 
customize it as you prefer, changing the E17 Theme, background, gtk 
theme, pretty much anything. Exactly like on the Live CD, you can change 
from the Sunshine to the Moonlight theme and vice versa by simply 
choosing the OpenGEU theme you prefer on the top panel 'Preferences' 
menu. Conclusions Remember that OpenGEU is completely compatible with 
any other official Ubuntu distros, so you can open Synaptic at any time 
and download the respective desktops, such as ubuntu-desktop, 
kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop or edubuntu-desktop. You'll just have 
some extra disc space filled and more boot options on the the login 
screen (under the 'Session' menu). You can install OpenGEU from packages 
too, see the wiki for this. I hope you'll have fun with this Linux 
distro and enjoy its speed and eye-candy. You can get OpenGEU from 
http://opengeu.intilinux.com

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Testo397: The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate 
availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of 
the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the 
beginning of the KDE 4 era.