VSIDO Raptor 32bit & 64bit ISO's updated 21-Oct-2013 20:40 CST

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

• Updated the kernel to the latest SID kernel 3.11-1
• Reconstructed the OpenBox environment with help from PackRat
• Corrected muz on the 32 bit
• Installed locales-all per dizzie
• Updated to latest SID levels

VSIDO Debian II 32 bit ISO updated 18-Oct-2013 15:20 CST

The 32 Bit ISO was updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues

• 
  Brought the 32 bit to the same levels as the 64 bit


• Updated to latest SID levels

Read about 32 bit version of VSIDO here

VSIDO Debian II ISO's updated 16-Oct-2013 23:40 CST

The 64 Bit ISO was updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues

Installed dmenu from a build by statmonkey

Installed console-data (dizzie)

Installed firmware-brcm80211

Corrected the Iceweasel settings so that all add ons now load and work, and installed a new default persona

updated to latest SID levels

Our very own jedi has posted a blog about VSIDO and the forum here that mentions several of the users

Please take a moment to read the JedsDesk Blog

Thank you jedi!

VSIDO Debian II ISO's updated 12-Oct-2013 18:40 CST

• The 64 Bit ISO was updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues
  Brought back XFCE 4.10 and WICD. This decision was based on customer input (inexperienced users).  ceni is still available for we geeks (or you can go real hardcore and edit /e/n/i)


• Installed lshw (could have sworn it was part of Debian base tools)


• Installed firmware-realtek for realtek wifi support out of the box


• updated to latest SID levels

VSIDO Debian II ISO's updated 29-Sept-2013 10:10 CST

The 64 Bit ISO was updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues

See the ChangeBlog for details

See the ChangeBlog for what has been done

After several days of discussions and work stemming from the New Directions Thread, I have built a new ISO for testing...

Link updated the latest ISO

I encourage everyone to check it out and let me know it is solid

After todays latest dist-upgrade which included a VirtualBox update, I am finding I cannot run any of my hosts and when I attempt any function, VSIDO logs out with no messages.

I have seen from google this has been an issue in the past few years after updates..

Anyone else seeing it?

Will keep you updated as this progresses

I have made the following changes on VSIDO II that are on the latest ISO build

This is for users who have it now and want the changes

For the new 3.10-3 kernel, you will get an update of the headers with an apt-get dist-upgrade.  Once those are installed, you will need to install the kernel image by doing this:

x64

sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.10-3-amd64

x32

sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.10-3-686-pae

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Renamed ~/images/screenshot to ~/images/scrot

Renamed  /etc/skel/images/screenshot to /etc/skel/images/scrot

Made these changes to ~/.fluxbox/keys and /etc/skel/.fluxbox/keys

Last line changed to


107 :Exec scrot -d 6 '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/scrots & mirage ~/images/scrots/$f'

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Made these changes to ~/.fluxbox/menu replacing the same lines 51-54 - also to /etc/skel/.fluxbox/menu


            [exec] (Screenshot Now) {scrot '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/scrots &amp; mirage ~/images/scrots/$f'} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/screenshooter.png>
            [exec] (Screenshot in 5 sec) {scrot -d 5 '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/scrots &amp; mirage ~/images/scrots/$f'} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/screenshooter.png>
            [exec] (Screenshot in 10 sec) {scrot -d 10 '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/scrots &amp; mirage ~/images/scrots/$f'} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/screenshooter.png>
            [exec] (Screenshot Pick Area) {scrot -s '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/scrots &amp; mirage ~/images/scrots/$f'} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/screenshooter.png>

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The SpaceFM Icon was corrected also. For current users, in SpaceFM go to View/Window Icon and put in

vsidosfm


Enjoy!

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

• Added lvm support (thanks Gordon)
• Added conky-all
• Updated to current SID levels

For anyone with VSIDO II already installed, simply run

sudo apt-get install lvm2 conky-all

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