NEW DISTRO: Underground desktop 012

From: ivan (ivan.roquentin_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/16/05 

Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 02:39:29 CST

Underground Desktop (www.ludos.org) 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.

NOTE: Multimedia support not included, read this to be able to install
it.

BUG FIX: Remove the file '/etc/apt/preferences' after installing.

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

You can download it at www.ludos.org

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