Akita Linux BETA 13
- a mongrel: sfs3, kernel 2.6.25.16, wary 5.1.x compatible
- akita repo -
http://akita.scottjarvis.com
- uses jwm, but many other WMs in the repo
- easily enable/disable rox icons, startups, etc
- no office, no cups, all in repo
- massive choice of web browsers in easy installer
- uses vlc and vlc-gtk for media player
- many apps i18n'd, lots of French, Spanish, Russian, German translations included
- includes many good console apps: elinks, doc2txt, mocp, mc,
- good for old clunkers, craptops, etc
Download: http://akita.scottjarvis.com/akita-linux-beta13.iso,
size: 89mb, md5: 6e3350ded95e8eda396c22bcc6afb732
Devx, for compiling: http://akita.scottjarvis.com/akita_devx-b11.sfs
md5: 68fe4a15228f9cc41ff8cd553e90f3a5, 111MB, sfs3
(Right-click and choose 'SFS Loader' to load/install it)
Summary of updates
- updated many apps (PupMenu, PupSnap, Pburn, Precord, etc)
- much updated media player, VLC and VLC-GTK support youtube,
- more right click options, for SFS, audio files
- PasteNGo (Ctrl-Alt-V) is improved - can auto download & install pets, more
- fixes for Java and opera12
- added random wallpaper changers (from SFR and my own right click option)
- more apps in repo, especially multimedia
- nice new font viewer, sfontview (thx to thunor)
- added Premote, PAVrecord, RWC (thx to SFR, mcewanw)
Changelog
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- Sept 22
- re-compiled vlc_nogui 1.1.9
- added lua support, used lua pkg from akita repo
- fixed youtube.luac, using uncompiled XP version, now plays youtube URLs ok
- doesn't actually seem to need lua installed
- updated VLC-GTK to 2.5:
- fixed GUI info when saving a fave stream
- support play youtube URLs as 360p mp4
- support record youtube URLs as 360p flv, gets filename from URL, user can edit befor saving
- record stream btn now accepts any fave stream or URL, fixes for naming streams $STREAM_FILE
- updated help info, tooltips, more info about recording streams
- Sept 23
- more fixes in VLC-GTK
- fixes for youtube playback and download
- fixed subtitles delay option
- Sept 24
- updates to VLC-GTK
- fixes for immediate playback in CLI interface
- added 'Edit' rc file button, moved 'Save' button
- added OSD options: OSD timeout
- added network options: http and mms caching, ipv4/ipv6, youtube quality
- added advanced options: ffmpeg direct output, sub-pictures
- lots of fixes in GUI layout, other code clean ups
- updated /usr/sbin/pastengo (called with Ctr-Alt-V): autoplay youtube URL from clipboard in defaultmediaplayer
- Sept 25
- VLC-GTK 2.5.1: fixed support URLs without http://, starting www. or ending .m3u .pls .aspx .wmv
- fixes for auto playback of streams in /usr/sbin/pastengo (called with Ctr-Alt-V)
- added ROX right click option for PET files: "Convert to SFS"
Oct 01
- fixed VLC youtube playback: updated /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.luac
Oct 02
- fix: remove /sbin/ldconfig from mainfs
- fix: replaced 4 or 5 zero byte files in /sbin with actual files from beta11
- fix keyboard keymap setup: remove duplicate keymap-set in /sbin (older than the one in /usr/sbin)
- updated Akita Repo:
- added gtk_youtube_viewer 3.0.2
- fixed virtual box, removed older packages
Oct 03
- updated gtk_youtube_viewer 3.0.2-akita:
- fixed all icons in menus
- now uses VLC for playback, no mplayer required
- updated Akita repo and PPM:
- gtk_youtube_viewer 3.0.2, in Multimedia, 1.8mb
- easytag-2.1.6-i386-akita, in Multimedia, 322K
- easytag_DOC-2.1.6-i386-akita, in Multimedia, 32K
- easytag_NLS-2.1.6-i386-akita, in Multimedia, 648K
- lua-5.1.4-akita, in BuildingBlock, 126K
- lua_DEV-5.1.4-akita, in BuildingBlock, 94K
- lua_DOC-5.1.4-akita, in BuildingBlock, 3K
- wavpack-4.60.1-w-20110126, in BuildingBlock, 121K
- wavpack_DEV-4.60.1-w-20110126, in BuildingBlock, 81K
Oct 04
- updated to VLC-GTK 2.5.2:
- new 'Capture' tab, can capture and transcode File, DVD, Screen
- can only capture and transcode to file at the moment (not URLs)
Oct 06
- updated to VLC-GTK 2.5.4
- fixes for dvd ripping
- fixes for transcoding options
- fixes in transcoding handling, and killing its processes
- fixes in debug handling
- added more transcode options, codecs etc
Oct 08
- updates to VLC-GTK
- added batch file converting, see the Dir option in Capture tab
- other fixes
Oct 09
- updated to VLC-GTK 2.5.5
- close/kill all vlc capture cmds and progress dialogs automatically/on user cmd, as needed
- fixed building output filenames for DIR capture
- fixed debug handling in DIR capture
- added dialog, ask to play all converted files, in DIR capture, after conversion
Oct 10
- VLC-GTK 2.5.6
- create audio files better in capture tab
- fixes in filetype extensions in capture tab
- updated gui tooltips
- fixes in waiting times to cancel capture cmds
- fixed capture from DIR with no trailing slash
Oct 14
- updated to VLC-GTK 2.5.7
- updated logging, new logging system uses -vvv and BASH redirects to all vlc cmds in run_vlc
- fixed: screen fps values in run_vlc()
- fixed: audio transcoding: guess filetype, rename mp4 to m4a, if no video used
- fixed: disable OSC if no xdotool found
- fixed: if using vesa Xorg module, disable Xvideo output, use X11 instead
- fixed: if using Xvesa server, disable Xvideo output, use X11 instead
- added "DVD Simple" button, skips menus, straight to movie
- GUI fixes and cleanups, renamed 1st tab, updated tooltips, etc
Oct 15:
- updated ROX right-click option "Start Slideshow", for all images
- added sort by name, filetype, size, newest, oldest, ...
- added rcfile, so it remembers your preferred settings each time you use it
- added "Set as Rotating Wallpaper" button, uses /usr/sbin/feh_wallpaper_rotator, rotates wallpaper on given interval
Oct 16:
- updated to VLC-GTK 2.5.8: much improved for multiple instances of VLC
- fixed: never use 'killall' to end vlc, fixes multi-user and multiple instances
- updated run_vlc(): add PID of newest vlc playback process to end of list
- updated run_vlc(): only playback is added to list, to be ended by kill_vlc
- updated run_vlc(): all capturing, converting, transcoding, dvd ripping, stream downloading etc will continue when playback is quit
- updated kill_vlc(): get PID from list of VLC playback pids, kill only most recent PID, then remove that PID from the list
- updated kill_vlc(): if trying to kill a PID that is no longer running, remove from list, kill previous one in list, recursive
- updated GUI: 'Stop Playback' button will kill most recent VLC process that is still running
- updated GUI: do not allow multiple instances of main GUI
- updated OSC: never interfere with other playback windows, only its own (the one its attached to)
- updated OSC: 'Quit' button will kill only the VLC its attached to
- updated: workdir always dir of current file/playlist etc, or $HOME if none given
- fixed: all streams now download to $WORKDIR, not always to $HOME, as before
- fixed: cleaned up tmp files created and used, fixes for multiple users
Oct 17:
- updated to VLC-GTK 2.5.9:
- fixed run_vlc(): force vlc exit at end of playback, added vlc://quit to end of each playback command
- fixed OSC: always quit OSC when VLC playback ends, waits while vlc PID is running, then closes OSC gui and quits
- added more Capture options (size, aspect, format)
- renamed 'Duration' to 'Timer' in main GUI
- renamed 'Output' to 'Save' in main GUI
- fixed double re-load main GUI after playback
- added the path ($WORKDIR) that files will be saved to in relevant tooltips
- GUI fixes, better spacing etc in capture tab
Oct 18th
- added: ffmpeg_vidcap-0.4, pburn-3.7.5, pburn_NLS, precord-8.1.3, premote-0.9.3, PupMenu-3.0
- updates to VLC-GTK 2.5.9:
- many updates and fixes for Format/Size option in Capture tab:
- Create 4:3 padded/cropped, 16:9 padded/cropped, PAL, NTSC, Ipod, BBCurve, Flash 240/360/480p, etc
- if no video codec, disable Format/Size options
- fixes, using vfilter{}, cropadd{}, canvas{} in transcoding
- fix WORKDIR: replace blank or . with `pwd`
Oct 20th
- updated to VLC-GTK 2.6
- added: support for start/stop times in Capture->Timer
- added: Youtube, DVD formats to Capture->Format list
- added: 'Convert using VLC-GTK' ROX right-click option
- added GPL license and vlc-gtk description to script
- fixed GUI: in capture tab, renamed "Timer" to "Times", "Size" to "Format"
- fixed: all vlc cmds assign their PID to $RUNVLC_PID
- fixed: fixed Flv settings, in Capture->Format list
- updated tooltips in Capture->Adv and Capture->Times
Oct 22:
- updated to PupSnap 2.0
Oct 23:
- updated ~/.gtkrc.mine: better highlighted items in ROX-filer
- updated pavrecord 1.9.2
Oct 26
- updated PupControl, PupSysInfo,
- fixed better highlight in ROX, updates to ~/.gtkrc.mine:
- added needed imgs, removed ROX-Filer theme stuff to fix icons too big in filechoosers, etc
- added Random Wallpaper Changer 1.6.2, added support for feh and toggle-rox-desktop
- added IconFinder 1.0-2 Menu->Utility->Icon Finder
Nov 04
- added to Akita Repo:
"amuc-1.7-1-i386-akita: the Amsterdam Music Composer, music and audio creation" off "Multimedia +libjack 2112K" /
"calibre-0.9.4-i686-akita: great reader for ebooks, kindles, epub files, etc" off "Document 58000K" /
"rezound-0.12.3beta-akita: audio creator and editor" off "Mutlimedia +fftw,+fox 1299K" /
"fox-1.6.43-i686: GUI toolkit" off "BuildingBlock 1705K" /
"fftw-2.1.5: audio library, needed by rezound" off "BuildingBlock 157K" /
"flite_gui-2.2-akita: text2speech (text file to audio file) tool" off "Multimedia 14000K" /
"rar-4.20: needed to create .rar archive files" off "BuildingBlock 198K" /
"updf-0.3-akita: a GUI frontend for mupdf" off "Document +mupdf 18K" /
- added sfontview as default font viewer
- updated PupSnap 2.0 (fixed)
- added SFS to PET right click option
- added Telnet Starwars in Menu->Fun
- added movgrab 1.1.12
- updated JRE pet in akita repo, now works out of the box with opera-12