AriOS 3.0 Final is Out!

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I’m very happy to announce the release of AriOS 3.0 Final, a complete operating system based on Ubuntu 11.04.
In this version the focus has been on providing a better set of default programs, more polish and a more consistent look and fill accross the system.

Noteworthy points and changes in this version:

-No Unity! Unity has been removed as I think it still lacks a lot of features and customization options.

-Downgraded compiz. AriOS comes with compiz 2:0.8.6-0ubuntu9.2.1 to avoid the problems reported about the new version shipped in Natty.

-Sessions: You can choose between 3 sessions at login: AriOS, AriOS-2D and Gnome Classic. The default session (AriOS) uses compiz as window manager, if your video card is capable of running compiz and you have the proprietary drivers installed (Nvidia & ATI). Otherwise it will revert to AriOS-2D session which uses Metacity for managing windows.

-Alt+F2 shortcut has been re-assigned to Synapse, the smart, semantic launcher. There are 3 ways to summon Synapse: pressing Alt+f2, pressing Ctrl+Space and using the “Run Command” button in the main menu.

-Offline driver installer: This is a utility meant for computers with poor or no internet connection. It installs proprietary drivers (Nvidia, ATI, Broadcom STA, etc.) It should only be run before any software is updated, added or removed. To use it run “AriOS Driver Installer” from the “Administration” menu or type “driver-install” in a terminal. (Many thanks to hacktolive.org for helping me to make this work.)

-Multimedia codecs and two powerful media players (VLC and GNOME Mplayer) for playing all kinds of audio and video files as well as video DVDs.

-Evolution replaced by Thunderbird.

-LibreOffice has replaced OpenOffice.org

New Additions:

Clementine: A powerful, feature-rich music player which looks like the famous Amarok 1.4 series.

Angry Birds: A very popular game which you can play directly inside Chromium web browser even while you’re offline!

Choqok: A very powerful and easy-to-use Twitter and Identi.ca client.

Openshot: A video editor

Gnote: A good note-taking application. t has replaced Tomboy.

GShutdown: A simple utility for scheduling shut-down and reboot.

Geeqie: A very fast and light-weight image browser and viewer.

Uget: A download manager that can use aria2 for downloading files.

Skype: Make quality voice calls.

Super Boot Manager: A utility to modify Grub, Burg and Plymouth.

Boot Repair: A utility to backup and recover Grub.

Known Issues:

-Sometimes indicator applets won’t show up in the top right panel due to a problem in indicator applet for AWN.

-On some very rare instances, gnome-setting-daemon dies and themes and icons won’t appear correctly. Logging out and back in or killing and restarting the gnome-settings-daemon solves this issue.