openmamba livestudio is a live release of the openmamba operating system that
provides a collection of program for creative productivity that can immediately be used simply
by booting or rebooting your computer with the CD in the reader.
It also provides an installation interface for system installation on fixed disk that
lets you use openmamba while maintaining the operating system pre-installed in
your computer (e.g. Microsoft Windows).
It works on almost any Personal Computer: notebook, desktop and server.
Who is it for?
openmamba livestudio was thought for musicians, designers, graphics, photographers
and who likes expressing creativity through new tecnologies.
It's a collection that shows the most recent release in the Open Source software world
and offest an alternative possibility in a branch where commecial products are
still preferred for professional purposes.
Features:
live desktop system for standard Personal Computers (Intel i686 or compatible)
top applications: Blender, GIMP, Mixxx, Lives, Qtractor, Rosegarden, Audacity, ZynAddSubFX, Hydrogen, Kino
automatic hardware detection and configuration for multimediality
support for proprietary nvidia and ATI 3D graphic drivers, Open Source drivers support is available too
NTFS read and write support using ntfs-3g
3D graphical desktop support with AIGLX and Compiz
professional audio support with jack low-latency server
A Personal Computer (PC) or an Intel based Mac with the following minimum components:
processor: Intel Pentium III or higher or AMD K6/Duron/Athlon or higher
196 MB of RAM or more (256 are recommended)
a CD-ROM drive
Additional requirements for system installation:
a fixed disk with 5 GB of free space or more
Istruzioni:
CD burning The livestudio system is distributed as a standard ISO 9660 image file.
So you have to burn it as an ISO image file, the option is available in most CD
burning programs.
openmamba livestudio fits in a 700 MB (80 minutes) CD-R o CD-RW empty support.
livecd startup Insert the CD in the player and restart the computer. On most computers the system
should start up automatically but sometimes you have to tell the BIOS to boot from CD.
Please see your computer guide or read the startup messages on video for more
information on how to boot from CD.
After a 1-3 minutes wait for system startup (times depend on computer hardware features)
openmamba graphical interface will be available and ready to use in a KDE environment
with superuser (root) user permissions.
