Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Ikey Doherty has announced that Evolve OS Alpha 1 has been released a while ago, being available for free download, only for 64bit (x86_64) CPUs.
Evolve OS is developed by Ikey Doherty, the developer of SOlusOS (a project now dropped), uses Budgie Desktop as the default desktop environment (a new DE based on the GNOME 3.10 Stack) and Kernel 3.14.2. Also worth mentioning, it uses Pisi as the default package manager, Firefox 30 as the default internet browser and Numix Circle as icon pack.
Budgie Desktop has quite a nice interface and might become quite a good solution for the computers with low hardware specs that need a light desktop. For now, it can be tested on Fedora 20, OpenSUSE 13.1 and Arch Linux. (for installation instructions see THIS article).
An interesting fact, besides the Budgie desktop is that it uses a brand new package manager, called PiSi.
Popular apt-get commands and their pisi equivalents:
- sudo apt-get update = sudo pisi update-repo = sudo pisi ur
- sudo apt-get upgrade = sudo pisi upgrade = sudo pisi up
- sudo apt-get -u upgrade = sudo pisi upgrade -n = sudo pisi up -n
- sudo apt-get install packagename = sudo pisi install packagename = sudo pisi it packagename
- sudo apt-get remove packagename = sudo pisi remove packagename = sudo pisi rm packagename
- sudo apt-cache show packagename = sudo info packagename
Also worth mentioning, Ikey will rename the pisi package manager to eopkg (eopkg is already symlinked to pisi) and so, you can always replace “pisi” with eopkg in the pisi commands and everything should work fine. Example: sudo pisi ur is the same as sudo eopkg ur, etc.
Download links for Evolve OS Alpha 1: via a German mirror or via a France mirror. Or, download Evolve OS Alpha 1 via torrent.