LAVA is about to turn 3.0
After a month or so of playing with all the 7.10 features and searching the net for the best tweaks and add-ons, I am about to release a new version of LAVA based on Gutsy. Check back here in the next couple days and check it out.
Some of the new features
1) More built in nautilus scripts - context sensitive
2) Longer list of included software
3) Main menu replaced with gnome main menu
4) OpenOffice customized for greater speed and automatically set to use Office formats as default.
5) Alot of performance tweaks - customized sysctl.conf, preload, prelink, etc.
5) Compiz-Fusion add-ons and customizations
6) Firefox add-ons and performance additions
7) Flash 9
and more...
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I am using Sabayon and it seems to me that although it is not based on Ubuntu, it does have most of the features that you list on your blog. Besides which, your distribution is so hard to find. I have searched and searched and I can't find anywhere to download it.
Sabayon is a cool tool that lets you customze a profile for an end-user. It is great if you already took the time to prepare a system and preloaded software. With LAVA I am not just loading software onto ubuntu, I am customizing it, adding different software from sites such as getdeb and changing artwork as well as introducing performance enhancements such as preload, prelink, hdparm setups as well as sysctl enhancements for broadband and higher memory usuage as well as reducing Ubuntu's need to swap so much by tweaking swappiness settings.
CD overburning and extra plugins for gimp, Openoffice with Microsoft Office 2007 compatibility, Flash 9, etc.
There are over 400 changes in the normal lava that I made from tips and tricks on the net and in the ubuntu forum. What you end up with is a ubuntu with, I hope, a better experience on newer pcs and alittle less work when you log into your desktop for the first time.
Sabayon is great if you wanted to either lock a user down so they could not see certain software or you wanted to give a group of users a set of icons on their desktops, etc. I hope that helps explain it.
I have not submited LAVA anywhere as it's a learning process. You can only download it here on my blog. I have an earlier version I made in 2007 which I dubbed 2.3. You can find it in my earlier entries. In a couple days I will release a new version based on Ubuntu 7.10.
I purchased www.lavalinux.com but to be honest, since I have not been totaly happy with 2.3, and ubuntu was about to release 7.10, I decided to wait and see what enhancements they were going to make. So I never uploaded it to the main site www.lavalinux.com.
So now that 7.10 is out I have been working for the last month or so on my new version which will be 3.0 and I'll upload it next week to both my blogsite as well as my main site so you can check it out.
I think I know why you could not download this software from the link on the right - I inadvertently put builds in the link and not build. The post I had in sept has always worked which you can get if you went to the bottom of the blog site but I fixed the link on the right so now you can use both links. Sorry :)
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