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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

xPUD linux boots within 5 seconds inside VirtualBox


I ran xPUD which is just a 56 MB linux (with full fledged firefox 3.5.3 and flash plugin) in Sun Virtualbox and netbook.

I allocated 256 MB for xPUD in Virtualbox and xPUD booted within 5 seconds!! though this is a development build

You can watch the video uploaded by me in youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW9PAtZ193Q


Here are the screenshots of the beautiful xPUD running inside Sun Virtualbox


xPUD boot screen


xPUD first screen


xPUD has firefox 3.5.3


xPUD has flash plugin preloaded


xPUD playing youtube video


xPUD terminal showing kernel version


xPUD settings menu



xPUD file menu



xPUD website http://xpud.org/



xPUD poweroff options



xPUD release on distrowatch





When I ran from netbook (Lenovo Ideapad S10) it took 14 to 16 seconds to boot and after the latest snapshot build wifi works out of the box.


Here is the snapshot build along with broadcom wireless drivers done by penk (Chen, Ping-Hsun) ultra fast developer of xPUD (see comments 2,3,4 and 5)


http://xpud.googlecode.com/files/xpud-10082009.iso

It is 56MB and it's

MD5: 814c37c9a132a8a9bf924af8f776157f

at 12:43 AM
Posted by Sankaran
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8 comments:

  1. ArjunOctober 7, 2009 at 1:22 AM

    Awesome! MPlayer and Firefox is all one needs. And very important that it came with the flash plugin installed!!

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  2. Chen, Ping-Hsun (penk)October 7, 2009 at 3:23 PM

    Hi Sankaran:

    I'm penk, one of the developer of xPUD. It's glad to read your post and youtube video! :-)

    However, I'd like to know what's your WiFi encryption type, and if you don't mind, please post on our forum (http://groups.google.com/group/pud-linux) so we can fix it in the next version.

    Best Regards,
    penk

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  3. SankaranOctober 7, 2009 at 4:40 PM

    I posted about wifi on forum. Your work on xPUD is great.

    Thanks
    Sankaran

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  4. Chen, Ping-Hsun (penk)October 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM

    Just uploaded a snapshot build:
    http://xpud.googlecode.com/files/xpud-10082009.iso (56MB)
    MD5: 814c37c9a132a8a9bf924af8f776157f

    The broadcom driver should be working now. :-)

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  5. SankaranOctober 8, 2009 at 10:12 PM

    Thank you, I will try this, I am downloading the iso

    Regards,
    Sankaran

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  6. SankaranOctober 8, 2009 at 11:24 PM

    Wifi working in Lenovo Ideapad S10 when I tried the snapshot build. Thanks

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  7. UKOctober 21, 2009 at 4:35 PM

    I have tried Xpud on my Acer Aspire 4710.
    But it does not detect my ethernet card.
    I have loaded the additional driver module. But still no positive result.
    Pls help me out.
    Thanks in advance.
    Uttiya

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  8. SankaranOctober 21, 2009 at 10:38 PM

    Hi,

    You need to post in the google forum.

    http://groups.google.com/group/pud-linux

    Regards,
    Sankaran

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