Igelle DSV 1.0.0

More recently - a few days ago - version 1.0.0 of the Linux Igelle distribution was released. This is a distribution in the full sense of the word, not some colorized Ubuntu. Here, your own Esther window manager, Sjapp package management system, and even the browser are not FireFox.


Igelle comes as live-cd with the ability to install on your hard drive. It loads very quickly, which surprised me. And it does not require any special knowledge and skills - it just loads, and that’s it. I decided to install it on my hard drive.


He asks where to install.


After that, he formats the partitions and copies himself to them. Everything happens surprisingly fast.




After the reboot, Igelle asks to specify the hostname, time zone and create a user account. Another reboot, and that's it, you can work.


Quite by chance, a panel appeared with a quick start icon coming out from behind the bottom of the screen: Home folder, application list, system settings, documentation, a certain Task Manager, video player, creepy-looking Osmo organizer, calculator, picture viewer, web browser and gEdit.


Task Manager is a cross between the list of processes of the same name from Windows and top. You can change the status and priority of processes, you can kill.


Own-made web browser. It’s called everywhere simply WebBrowser 2.28.1, built on the basis of Apple WebKit, and I was able to recognize Epiphany in it.


Igelle's own repository is pretty poor. But there is everything you need. OpenOffice, FireFox, ThunderBird, PHP, RapidSVN, Pidgin, and more.

In addition, there is a tool called Sjapp. It can serve as a package manager (sjapp install pre-downloaded-package.sjapp), and as a tool for compiling something from the source code, and in a rather tricky way.

The sjappc compiler accepts a pre-prepared SysJob Script file (* .sjs) as an input file, which, in the simplest case, looks like this:

geany: sjapp {
      setself "url" "http://download.geany.org/geany-0.18.tar.bz2"
}

I took an example from the documentation on Sjapp. That is,
sjappc geany.sjs
And you have the geany editor installed. Well, must be installed.

The distribution is fast and lightweight, containing everything you need. The most for a laptop. Came out with the kernel 2.6.32.