MaXX Interactive Desktop Developer Release 3 (final)
The focus of the Developer Release 3 are;
- the switch to SGI-Motif 2.3.1
- 5Dwm v1.4
- a new version of gmemusage (2.5 beta1)
- many bug fixes
- the introduction of the package installer
It is wise to start with a fresh installation if you can, otherwise a Spring-Clean-DR2? procedure shall be provided to remove all traces of DR2.x
As of today, only RHEL/CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu are supported Linux Distributions on both x86 x86_64 CPU architectures.
Prerequisite
Those are the prerequisites... The libXp, libncurses5 libraries and xorg-x11-fonts* on some Linux distribution like Fedora. If you experience some missing fonts, then don't worry, just YUM or APT-GET them.
On RHEL/CentOS, do :
$ su # yum install libXp ncurses
On Fedora 10-11, do :
$ su # yum install libXp # yum install xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch bitmap-fonts.noarch # yum install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch # yum install xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch
or on Debian,
$ su # apt-get install libXp6 libncurses5
or on Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04,
$ sudo apt-get install libXp6 libncurses5
or on Ubuntu 9.10,
$ sudo apt-get install libXp6 libncurses5 xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base
Installation
Then to install, simply download the installer and run it as root... Remember you need libXp and ncurses to be installed on your system!
To install on RHEL/CentOS/Debian:
$ wget http://maxxdesktop.com/downloads/DR3/MaXX-DR3-Installer.sh $ chmod a+x MaXX-DR3-Installer.sh $ su # ./MaXX-DR3-Installer.sh # exit
To install on Ubuntu:
$ wget http://maxxdesktop.com/downloads/DR3/MaXX-DR3-Installer.sh # chmod a+x MaXX-DR3-Installer.sh # sudo ./MaXX-DR3-Installer.sh
log out or restart GDM and choose MaXX Desktop as your preferred Session :)
Comments and feedback should be posted forum site
Enjoy
