For those of you using elaborate conky's, you will see issues trying to load nvidia temp variables

That is happening because I forgot to include the package conky-all.  To correct my blunder simply run this in terminal

sudo apt-get install conky-all

It has been corrected on the build boxes and will be included on the next ISO

My apologies!

In my haste uploading today, I sent an ISO that did not have pulse installed.

If you have downloaded the ISO prior to the time on this message, you will need to run this to have pulseaudio installed correctly

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pavumeter pavucontrol paman paprefs

I apologize for the inconvenience and it has been corrected

After 2 weeks of discussion and a week of building and testing, I am happy to announce the release of VSIDO II, codename Velociraptor

These are the major changes in VSIDO II

Removed Xfce 4.10 but kept some parts (application finder, notifyd, task-manager)

Removed and placed Thunar and Geany in vsido-welcome

Removed uget

Removed gFTP

Removed aptosid kernel-remover (because smxi does the same thing)

Added pulseaudio

Corrected the ScreenFetch and remastersys scripts to work correctly

I also removed two icon sets that were not needed... That significantly reduced the ISO size..

Please visit the download page for all the links to the ISO's

I also want to thank everyone for their feedback and help in testing and promoting VSIDO!

You can see the official Blog release here

All right all you VSIDO users... I have a gift for you

In testing for a new build that can be seen here, an issue that may have been hidden since the beginning of all of this has shown up...

A couple of awesome test users, dizzie and jedi, noticed that the size of the new VSIDO install was probably 3 times larger than ever before. At about the same time, I was seeing failures on my VM install test beds that made no sense but once I investigated further, the failures were happening because the 8 gig had ran out of space... (VSIDO install would say All Is Good, lets reboot, but there would not be a grub installed, the last step of the installer)

On a day long discussion on the #VSIDO IRC channel, it was discovered that /lib/live/mount on the new installs were 6.5 gig!!!!

Testing was done to ensure that deleting /lib/live/mount was all right (and Google indicated others with the same issue) and we can emphatically say....

sudo rm -rf /lib/live/mount

This has probably been going on since the beginning of VSIDO but with installs at 4-5 gig it was not a big deal... The actual install size of VSIDO is 3 gig before running vsido-welcome!!!

For anyone in the future, I have enhanced the VSIDO installer to remove /lib/live/mount as one of the last steps before the grub install so that this will never hit anyone again

Great thanks to jedi and dizzie for the testing (and bitching) and apologies to anyone who has seen this as an issue

Cheers!

I am contemplating the following and would like your feedback...

Xfce 4.10 gone

FluxBox as Primary, with OB installed but not much emphasis on it ... It remains static so that is a given.  My objective would be to have VSIDO as the ultimate FluxBox distro

Move back to debians stable kernel 3.2.0.4  I have noticed incredible memory usage from the newer kernels and I think trying to stay bleeding edge in that context is dangerous... the 3.2.0.4 kernel is solid and works with VSIDO's smxi stub... and in all reality, for those of us who want a newer kernel, smxi is the optimal tool

Move to pulseaudio... It has grown up and the amount of tools it has vs the space it takes up is a hands down decision... It does not replace alsa, but augments it

The nexus of this is a more focused VSIDO future and a smaller footprint on the ISO's... The new test ISO is a full 100 MiB smaller (617MiB) than what is available now (717Mib)

Please chime in and let me know what you think...

I appreciate it

available 

You may/will see errors after the recent dist-upgrades that spit out this when you do a sudo apt-get autoremove:

Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10

To correct this and get apt working do the following:

sudo medit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs

and comment out this line

DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";};

Save it and rerun

sudo apt-get autoremove

Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues

• 
  Added uefi capabilities to the install process
• Updated to current SID levels

I am trying to determine the value of Gdebi within VSIDO... it has a tremendous amount of gnome dependencies that we could do without

For me, it is a good tool to open a deb to get a clear picture of dependencies needed for the application, but I do not use it for much of anything else

.deb files are easy to install from the command line with dpkg, so it's not like there would be no support for it

If I do remove gdebi, I would put it in the welcome script as one of the build packages

Please let me know on this, I want opinions before I make a decision

Thanks

Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues

Made sure both ISO's were beyond the Perl Jam II issues

Updated to current SID levels

Something is amiss from the sid repos today (27-August-2013)

Doing a dist-upgrade, I am seeing what you would normally see if a sid repo was not available and experimental was hit... The troubling part of this is that there are no error messages reporting a SID repo is not available.  Here is a copy of what is happening.  You obviously do NOT want to do this

vastone@vsido:~$ up
Hit http://liquorix.net sid InRelease                                         
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org sid InRelease                                     
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental InRelease                           
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex                 
Hit http://ignorantguru.github.com unstable InRelease                         
Hit [url]ftp://ftp.us.debian.org[/url] sid InRelease                                     
Ign http://mozilla.debian.net experimental InRelease                           
Hit http://oscar.aptosid.com sid InRelease                                     
Hit http://liquorix.net sid/main amd64 Packages                               
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex             
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex             
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/contrib Translation-en/DiffIndex             
Hit http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid InRelease                               
Hit [url]ftp://ftp.us.debian.org[/url] sid/main Sources/DiffIndex                         
Hit http://ignorantguru.github.com unstable/main amd64 Packages               
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Translation-en/DiffIndex                 
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex             
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex       
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex     
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex   
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/contrib Translation-en/DiffIndex     
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/main Translation-en/DiffIndex       
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex   
Hit http://mozilla.debian.net experimental Release.gpg                         
Hit http://oscar.aptosid.com sid/main amd64 Packages                           
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/non-free amd64 Packages             
Hit [url]ftp://ftp.us.debian.org[/url] sid/contrib Sources/DiffIndex                     
Hit [url]ftp://ftp.us.debian.org[/url] sid/non-free Sources/DiffIndex                     
Hit http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid/main amd64 Packages                     
Hit http://oscar.aptosid.com sid/fix.main amd64 Packages                       
Hit http://mozilla.debian.net experimental Release                             
Hit http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid/non-free amd64 Packages                 
Hit http://mozilla.debian.net experimental/iceweasel-aurora amd64 Packages     
Ign http://liquorix.net sid/main Translation-en_US                             
Ign http://liquorix.net sid/main Translation-en                               
Ign http://ignorantguru.github.com unstable/main Translation-en_US             
Ign http://ignorantguru.github.com unstable/main Translation-en               
Ign http://mozilla.debian.net experimental/iceweasel-aurora Translation-en_US
Ign http://mozilla.debian.net experimental/iceweasel-aurora Translation-en
Ign http://oscar.aptosid.com sid/fix.main Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://oscar.aptosid.com sid/fix.main Translation-en
Ign http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid/main Translation-en
Ign http://oscar.aptosid.com sid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://oscar.aptosid.com sid/main Translation-en
Ign http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid/non-free Translation-en
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  aspell aspell-en bum ceni console-setup console-setup-linux debconf-i18n
  dictionaries-common enchant geany-plugin-devhelp geany-plugin-spellcheck
  geany-plugin-vc geany-plugin-webhelper geany-plugins gimp git-cvs git-svn
  gmpc-plugins gmusicbrowser hunspell-en-us iamerican ibritish ienglish-common
  inkscape intltool ispell keyboard-configuration libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl
  libapt-pkg-perl libaudio-scrobbler-perl libautodie-perl libcairo-perl
  libclass-accessor-perl libclone-perl libconfig-inifiles-perl
  libcrypt-ssleay-perl libcurses-perl libcurses-ui-perl libdbd-sqlite3-perl
  libdbi-perl libdigest-crc-perl libemail-valid-perl libenchant1c2a
  libexpect-perl libfcgi-perl libfile-fcntllock-perl libglib-perl
  libgstreamer-interfaces-perl libgstreamer-perl libgtk2-notify-perl
  libgtk2-perl libgtk2-trayicon-perl libgtkspell0 libhtml-form-perl
  libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tree-perl libio-pty-perl
  libio-socket-inet6-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libipc-run-perl
  libjson-xs-perl liblist-moreutils-perl liblocale-gettext-perl
  liblwp-protocol-https-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-tools-perl
  libnet-dbus-perl libnet-dns-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl
  libossp-uuid-perl libpango-perl libparse-debcontrol-perl
  libparse-debianchangelog-perl libperl5.14 libperlio-gzip-perl libsexy2
  libsoap-lite-perl libsocket-perl libsocket6-perl libsub-identify-perl
  libsub-name-perl libsvn-perl libterm-readkey-perl libtext-charwidth-perl
  libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libuuid-perl libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
  libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libwww-perl libxml-libxml-perl libxml-parser-perl
  libxml-sax-expat-perl libxml-simple-perl libxml-twig-perl
  libyaml-libyaml-perl lintian linux-base linux-image-3.10-2-amd64
  live-installer module-assistant perlmagick python-webkit shotwell spacefm
  task-english tasksel tasksel-data texinfo udevil xchat xorg xscreensaver
  xscreensaver-data xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all
  xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
  xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm
  xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
  xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128
  xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
  xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
  xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
  xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
  xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident
  xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
  xserver-xorg-video-voodoo zenity
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libarchive-extract-perl libmodule-pluggable-perl libperl4-corelibs-perl
  libpod-latex-perl libterm-ui-perl
The following packages will be upgraded:
  base-passwd btrfs-tools debconf grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common
  liblzo2-2 libvo-aacenc0 libvo-amrwbenc0 libxmmsclient6 perl perl-base
  perl-modules
14 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 154 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 353 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues

• Updated to current SID levels


• Added several new images for grub and lightdm

To get the same update for current users do this:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Copy the attached splash.png to /e t c/remastersys/isolinux

(NOTE - that there are spaces in the etc directory.  Do not include the spaces.  This host does not allow a /e t c/ directory to be used in posts)

Copy the attached .face to your /home/username directory

Copy vsido_grub.png to the /boot/grub directory

Copy vsido_login.png to /usr/share/images/desktop-base

Then run:

sudo update-grub

I am sure everyone has noticed the new logo on these forums

My good friend lwfitz came through after we had a discussion on the #VSIDO IRC

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate lwfitz and his time and effort.  The work is incredible

Thank you lwfitz!

This How To is for those of us who have so many friends and relatives that bring us their Windows machines to clean it up from virus attacks

As many of you know, running a Windows machine with any commercial virus protection is not always effective as they are just as much of a target

ClamAV is a native Linux AV program that can scan a Windows drive from a LiveCD session, which is the preferred method

To use ClamAV with a VSIDO LiveCD is easy and effective.  You can use this to clean the machine and show off VSIDO at the same time

Step 1:  Have a VSIDO bootable CD/DVD or USB prepared and boot the machine to VSIDO LiveCD

Step 2: From terminal run the following:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install clamav

Step 3 - Open up SpaceFM and from the menu File select Root Window.  This will open up a Root Window of the drive and you can access everything from there. Select the ntfs partition and then from Menu, select Root Terminal.  This will open that drive into a root terminal

Step 4 - From that Root Terminal run

freshclam

clamscan -l avlog.txt -r -i

This starts ClamAV and downloads the latest virus signatures and then tells ClamAV to run recursively and log only infected files to the file avlog.txt.  It is a good practice to delete the files but renaming them would be just as good.  This way if they were false positives they could be retrieved

You can also install ClamTK, which is a GUI frontend to ClamAV

sudo apt-get install clamtk

ClamTK will find and quarantine the viruses as it scans

The scan will take a while ( I just scanned 30,000 directories and 183,000 files in 83 minutes), so while it is happening you have time to tell your friends and family why VSIDO is a better choice

Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues

Updated to Debian 3.10.5-7 kernel

Updated to current SID levels

Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues

• Updated to Debian 3.10.5-1 kernel
• Updated to current SID levels

Thanks to a post by newcomer Cuttlefish in his welcome here, I have made sure kernel 3.105-1 is the ISO kernel

This is also the first release that I built the ISO's completely from a VirtualBox environment... I used fsarchiver to build the VM's and everything worked as expected, saving me a tremendous amount of time

• Updated to current SID levels
• Corrected an issue brought on by the new Debian KeyRing

Just finished setting up the latest ISO's in VirtualBox...

X64 ISO booted to 89 MiB on first boot

i386 ISO booted to 67 MiB on first boot

I had been using real USB and installs to my local machine for testing.    I am now going to switch to using VB as the test source.  It also is great for testing changes to the build machines on small laptop and notebook screens

Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded with no issues this morning

• Updated to latest Debian SID kernel 3.10.5
• Updated GMusicBrowser to latest GIT levels
• Updated to current SID levels

Several new git updates lately

To update your git version of GMB to these latest changes simply follow this procedure in terminal

cd gmusicbrowser
git pull