I’m really happy to announce you this great new: OpenGEU Luna Crescente’s development just reached the Beta stage and we are now ready to show you all the progresses we’ve done from the Alpha release. You can get the beta only from the repos right now but we’ll have iso released for both i386 and amd64 machines by tomorrow.

To release the new OpenGEU we decided to change our repositories. We previously used Dunnewind as you surely know, but recently there has been a huge problem with their repos and all of you users had a very hard time upgrading. So, to be more independent, thanks to the great work of Quaker66, new member of our team, we developed a new repository, with a full version of E17, a very updated one. We’ll try to upgrade to a new E17 release every time it become significant or every month in any case.

Thanks to this upgrades and the work of our team members, in the Beta version of OpenGEU Luna Crescente you’ll find exciting new tools and features, such as:

1. •A very updated E17 system
   

2. •A working Trash Bin module
   

3. •Wonderful and really fast new OpenGEU themes: Murrina Sunshine and Murrina Moonlight
   

4. •A new and features rich OpenGEU themes manager
   

5. •A very fast settings daemon (no more gnome-settings-daemon, for now we use xfce-mcs-manager but Quaker66 is developing a new daemon already)
   

6. •Using the new Echo module for audio
   

7. •An ever growing number of OpenGEU themes for every taste and of every kind :)
   

8. •Various bug-fixesx
   

Hope you’ll enjoy this release and keep reporting important bugs and features requests :)

We have big plans for the future, we just need an help from volunteer coders and any other kind of donation / general help ;)

To get the new OpenGEU Luna Crescente Beta version, you have several options. If you are upgrading from the Alpha release, please use this guide, if you are installing OpenGEU in any normal Ubuntu system or derivate, you should instead read this. If you experienced any problem during the upgrade or a previous update due to the Dunnewind problem, please read this guide before anything else. The Beta is very stable and you are encouraged in using it, no matter if it’s not a full release yet, believe me ;)

We’ll try to keep you up and running with a fresh and working repository, trying to avoid any other problem with the repos! ;)