Underground Desktop 012 released.

From: Ciccio.A (ciccio.a_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/31/05


Date: 31 Mar 2005 03:48:28 -0800

Underground Desktop is a GNU/Linux distribution targeted to the
desktop user, featuring a graphical installation (using Anaconda for
Debian by Progeny), and is based on Debian 'unstable'.

Its main features are:

- Ease of installation.
The graphical installer will guide you through the installation in a
simple and effective way.

- Debian based.
Underground Desktop is based on Debian unstable, so you can install
bleeding edge software easily.

- Fast.
The desktop environment, KDE, is compiled with optimizations for
modern processor.
The linux kernel is optimized in order to improve desktop performance.

- KDE powered.
KDE is the most advanced desktop environment in the linux world.
We include a recent release of KDE.

Changelog:
012 - Changes

Linux kernel 2.6.11.3 + desktop performance patches (ck2)
KDE 3.4 RC1
GUI support for network configuration
Wireless cards: support for cards based on Intersil 802.11b Prism2,
Prism2.5, and Prism3 chipsets
Wireless cards: support for Ndis drivers
Xorg 6.8.2
Firefox 1.0.2
Support for Synaptics touchpad
Printing support
Laptop support
Autologin as root after installation
New windows decorations
Prelink

Applications:

Abiword (Word Processor)
Kdepim (KDE Personal Information Manager)
Ark (Archiving Tool)
Kview (Image Viewer)
Knemo (Network Monitor)
Firestarter (Firewall)
kghostview (PDF and PostScript Viewer)
Kalternatives (Alternatives System Manager)
Qtorrent (P2P Bittorrent Client)
Klaptopdaemon (Battery Monitoring and Management for Laptops)
Qtparted (Partitioning Tool)
Kuser (User Manager)
Kcron (Task Scheduler)
Kcalc (Calculator)
Amule (P2P Client for the eDonkey2000 network)



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