Unity Linux 2010_02 Is Powered by Linux kernel 2.6.35.7

Unity Linux 2010_02 has been released two days ago, on November 17th, and it includes a new kernel, the latest Enlightenment 17 environment, and many fixes or enhancements. Unity Linux 2010_02 is dubbed Unite17.

"We have another Unite17! It has a brand-new exterior and interior, because I took the liberty of use the testing repo’s. Of course, there are still some annoying bugs, such as that if you want to start an application, which would need administrator rights, something incomprehensible error message we see, that stops the program starts."

"However, just write in the Sakura (terminal emulator) the smart-root –gui command, and simply launch the package installer or Control Center with the drakconf command, if you have the problem. The Live installer works fine. Of course, this is a non-permanent nature of the error occurs, but often. Finally I like to say THANK YOU again to all!" - said the Unity Linux developers in the official release announcement.

· Linux kernel 2.6.35.7;
· The Enlightenment 17 environment has been updated to Beta;
· The transparency works flawlessly now, without the need of 3D;
· The minimum system requirements have been modified to at least Pentium 3 at 900 MHz CPU, 384MB of system memory, and an OpenGL compatible graphics card;
· The size of the ISO has been increased to 2.5GB;
· Lots of applications were updated;
· Two new add-ons for the Google Chrome web browser were introduced. Chrome TV extension, which allows all the available Internet TV broadcasts to be monitored, and an open-source YouTube video downloading plugin. Both add-ons are automatically updated.

About Unity Linux

Unity Linux is a community-oriented and minimalist Live CD Linux distribution based on Mandriva Linux and powered by the Enlightenment 17 window manager. Unity's main goal is to create a base OS from which more complete and user-oriented Linux distributions can easily be built.

Unity Linux's package management is handled via RPM 5 and Smart, which can download and install extra apps from the Unity's online repository.

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