Austrumi Linux 1.9.3
Desktop & Apps
The first thing you notice about the Austrumi desktop is the gorgeous wallpaper that is reminiscent of Linux Mint. Very slick looking and quite pretty.
Austrumi uses the FVWM window manager for its desktop environment. You can see system information right at the top of your screen and you can access various things such as apps, file explorer, search, etc. by clicking on the icons on the right side of your screen. To access more just left-click your desktop and a menu will pop up with the following categories:
Games
Development
Multimedia
Graphics
Settings
System Tools
Internet
Office
Accessories
Run
You can also right-click your desktop to access FVWM config tools, restart, etc.
Austrumi Linux comes with a good range of apps and here’s some of what you’ll find:
Games
IceBreaker
XBoard
Mines
Atomix
GtkBalls
Ltris
Graphics
GIMP
Ghostview
GicView Image Viewer
Internet
Firefox
Linphone
Linuxdcp
Pwget
Skype
Transmission
XChat
vqcc-gtk Chat Client
Multimedia
Alsa Mixer
MPlayer
Sweep
BurnBox
SimpleCDR-X
Radio Stations
Browse Videos
Browse Music
Office
Gnumeric Spreadsheet
Homebank
AbiWord
What I Liked Most
My favorite feature of Austrumi is it’s small size and portability. Along with Puppy Linux and other mighty mite versions of Linux, Austrumi makes it possible for you to put Linux in your pocket and take it with you.
(4 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)
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Instead of Minefield, maybe they should call the browser “Fire in the hole!”.
I have been getting that same Firefox error message a lot since switching to 3.5 regardless of OS. As such, I have reverted back to the 3.0x series until Firefox decides to get their bleep together.
As to offering a good, lightweight, and stable web browser in these smaller distros, I have yet to find one. SeaMonkey and IceWeasel are the least offensive, but both still need lots of work. I always end up downloading Firefox.
@timck: Iceweasel is Firefox without the trademarks. Any differences you perceive would be crated by the difference in the browser name that websites see. Otherwise they are identical.
I use Swiftfox – i <3 it
tlmck wrote:
Yes, I think “Fire in the Hole” would have been very accurate. Heh.
Nobody Important wrote:
IceWeasel may be based on Firefox, but every version I have used has had problems. The latest version of Firefox, at the time, ran just fine on the same machine. The last IceWeasel I tried was in DreamLinux 3.1.
Now I just ignore any browser other than Firefox.
I am sorry to hear that Austrumi has such an unstable Web browser. Odd, too, because I have been running frequent nightly builds of both 3.6 (and even 3.7!) versions of Firefox from the Shiretoko, Minefield (and one other) code name, along with nightly builds of SeaMonkey, and I have not had a single problem with any of them. I have also occasionally been participating in the “Litmus Test” suites to feed back the Mozilla project on the results of Firefox and SeaMonkey builds. I am quite happy with them.
Given that Austrumi can’t seem to find a usable version among the many solid versions that are out there, nor provide even a single stable alternative, it does not seem worthwhile to use, though it certainly does seem to have many other desirable traits.
Also given that I have very fast builds of antiX, Puppy, Tiny Me, and Tiny Core, and I have them on disk, on CD, on USB, and in Virtualbox OSE, I am not particularly in need of another fast test system.
Thanks for the review though Jim. If I get the itch, I may give one of their versions a peek again. I’ve used Austrumi before, but it has been a while since I last tested it.
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manutd31 wrote:
Thanks, glad you are enjoying the blog.
I didn’t try Austrumi 1.9.3 yet but I suppose it’s very easy to get a stable browser from the Slackware repositories. Of course it should be better if the browser just works out of the box!
I like Austrumi for its ever very nice look and for its amazing choice of applications compared to its size.
Infortunately, it doesn’t include ndiswrapper (at least the last version I tried) so I’m not able to connect to my network from it with my two PC’s.
There seems to be a version 1.9.5 downloadable from the homepage at Distrowatch – couldn’t find a link to it at the Austrumi site. Maybe they’ve fixed some of the issues?