The desktop extension to SoL

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Martin Willner writes: “What is SoL-desktop?

SoL-desktop is an expansion pack for SoL – Server optimized Linux. When
installing SoL-desktop on a SoL 13.37 or 15.00 installation you get a
desktop for office use!

Whats inside of SoL-desktop?

Version 0.1a of SoL-desktop comes with lots of goodies you need running
Linux as a desktop. Here is a short list:

  • KDE 3.0.3 with multimedia extensions
  • Enlightenment 0.16.5
  • OpenOffice 1.0.1
  • MP3 encoders
  • PalmPilot utilities
  • ImageMagick graphic tools
  • Gaim, the best AOL/ICQ/MSN client
  • Gimp, the one and only photoshop competetor
  • TeTeX package
  • Wine, the windows emulator
  • and many many more!

    Where do I get SoL-desktop?

    You can download SoL-desktop form one of the mirrors listed in the
    download section.

    http://www.sol-linux.com/index.sol?download/index. html

    What are the requirements for SoL-desktop?

    SoL-desktop needs a running SoL 13.37 or SoL 15.00 installation.
    The SoL-desktop needs at least 1.2 GB of disk-space on SoL 15.00.
    For SoL 13.37 you need a litte bit more because qt has to be installed (see
    README in the tar-ball for details).

    SoL and SoL-desktop was developed by “antitachyon – Manalo & Willner OEG”, http://www.antitachyon.com“

    • Link: http://www.sol-linux.com/?desktop/index.html

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