PAIPIX 9.10
The new PAIPIX 9.10 uses Debian Lenny development, xwindows and kde with kernel (2.6.30), openoffice 3.1.1 and many more applications. New scientific applications were included but a special emphasys was put on including a set of videoconference tools. With very fast networks available everywhere and a planet acking ion all possible ways, they should not travel anymore just to convey information by meeting. A set of tools including updated versions of sipproxd, opensips, ekiga, linphone, ffmpeg, palantir, and teamspeak, may be hepfull to come up with a strategy to bring virtual conferencing ta a convenience replacement of travel.
An updated PAIPIX disk installation can now create a new PAIPIX DVD image using live-helper. Just give yourself sudo access, create an empty directory and issue for example: paipix-install dvd.i386.lenny.pt to create the paipix-pt image. The user can tune this image by modifying the lists and scripts in /usr/share/paipix-install/lists.
The following use cases are supported:
LIVE: Starting PAIPIX in the live mode, one has access to complete system including KDE, Office and Development. In a second stage, the PAIPIX menu allows to install in memory all remaining applications. This approach is usable since a typical live session only explores a restricted subset of applications. It still allows you to try all the available software without installing it definitely it in the hard disk.
INSTALLATION: By starting PAIPIX in the installation mode one has access to the standard debian-installer system. The installer was configured (pre-seeded) to reproduce the complete KDE, Office and Development environment available in the live system with further access to all packages trough the PAIPIX installation menu. The DVD includes all binary packages necessary to the full system installation.
UPGRADE: As part of the entire system, the DVD includes a Debian-CDROM like repository that includes all necessary packages. This repository can be also be used to upgrade or install further packages in any Debian type installation. To upgrade an existing system one should use the apt-cdrom add command to add this DVD to the list of used repositories.
The PAIPIX iso images are available in English (PAIPIX) and in bilingual editions that support both English and one of the following languages: Portuguese (PAIPIX-PT), Spanish (PAIPIX-ES), French (PAIPIX-FR), Italian (PAIPIX-IT) and German (PAIPIX-DE).
PAIPIX 9.1 is based on Debian Lenny (5.1) and lenny-backports plus many packages in the paipix repository . PAIPIX is build both for 32bit (i386-686) and 64bit (amd64- intel ET64) architectures. The 64 bit support, although newer, is is rather complete including the browser Java and Flash plugins.
PAIPIX 9 is free project and results from a collaboration between the SIM Research Laboratory at F. Ciências, of the Universidade de Lisboa and the SEE-FUTURE spin-off. The source code for all PAIPIX packages is available from the paipix repository, together with the compiled versions. The patches to the live-helper package are available in the paipix-helper package.
As an aggregation of mostly free-software packages, you can only use PAIPIX at your own risk. The Author can not accept any responsibility on any problem or hardware damage or data loss that can result from PAIPIX usage.
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