Emmabuntüs 2

This distribution is suitable for machines with at least a Pentium 4 running at 1.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM and 20GB of free disk space for installation. For use in live mode or in a virtual machine, it is necessary to have at least 1 GB of RAM, for more information on this subject see the F.A.Q.

It has been developped to allow to recondition machines within the Emmaus Communities of :


 * Neuilly-Plaisance and Neuilly-sur-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis : Neuilly Emmaüs Avenir
 * Montpellier, Hérault : Emmaüs Montpellier
 * Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales : Emmaüs Catalogne
 * Ivry-sur-Seine and Charenton-le-Pont, Val-de-Marne : Emmaüs Liberté
 * Villers-les-Pots, Côte-d'or : Emmaüs Dijon
 * Paris : Emmaüs Paris



See the release announcements : December 18th, 2014, Emmabuntüs 2 joined the campaign « Ungoogle Internet » February 24th, 2014, Emmabuntüs 2 gives a second life to computers classroom background In 2014, Emmabuntüs 2 gives a second life to 64-bit computers November 18th, 2013, Emmabuntüs 2 gives a second life to old computers July 21st, 2013, Emmabuntüs 2 celebrates M-Pregnancy ;-) April 1st, 2013, Emmabuntüs 2 celebrates Software Freedom Day ;-) December 8th, 2012, the Emmabuntüs 2 celebrates Al-Jerry ;-) September 21th, 2012, the Emmabuntüs 2 celebrates Free in peace ;-)''' August 4th, 2012, the Emmabuntüs 2 continues its Free revolution ;-) July 14th, 2012, the Emmabuntüs 2 make its Free revolution ;-) June 6th, 2012, the Emmabuntüs 2 finally arrived

Direct link to download the current version here (~3.3 GB, MD5, SHA1, List of packages)

Direct link to download the current 64-bit version here (~3.3 GB, MD5, SHA1, List of packages)

For older versions see here.

= Software credits = I especially want to thank the websites Framasoft and Ubuntu for their admirable work, without which this refurbished PC would not have been possible.

Remark : The Software preceded the following symbols :


 * and marked in bold have been added on the 1.05 version, see l'advertisement


 * and marked in bold have been added on the 1.04 version, see l'advertisement


 * and marked in bold have been added on the 1.03 version, see l'advertisement


 * and marked in bold have been added compared to the previous version Emmabuntüs Equitable.


 * included remarkable software in this distribution

Environnement
Xubuntu 12.04 « Precise Pangolin » : A variant of Ubuntu, using the same basic concepts, Ubuntu is lighter, can be installed on computers rather old, and with poor hardware. The most visible difference is the use of lightweight desktop environment Xfce instead of Unity.

LXDE/OpenBox : Additional environment included in this release to extend the capabilities of reconditioning machines, see its implementation in FAQ

Cairo-Dock : Application launch bar animated (or dock, how to Mac OS X) making accessible all the software described below on the desktop.

In this version the dock is available in seven languages:
 * English (En)
 * French (Fr)
 * Spanish (Es)
 * Arabic (Ar)
 * German (De)
 * Italian (It)
 * Portuguese (Pt)

Equitable : Automatic backup script for MBR during installation.

Browsers
Mozilla Firefox : The preferred browser of the editorial board!
 * Chromium : The free (as free speech) Web browser based on Google Chrome

Extensions included in the browsers
Blocksi : Finally the parental controls is built into Internet browsers. Remember to configure this extension, and to block access by password ;-)
 * Firefox Flash player : is a plugin or a standalone media player using the Flash technique. It's not free, but unfortunately necessary while waiting for the HTML5
 * Moonlight is a free and open source implementation of Silverlight, to visualize some public channels TVs for example :-(
 * Adblock Plus : is used to filter the content of web pages in order to block certain elements, especially banner ads
 * All-in-One Gestures : allows the control the navigation only with the mouse

Ghostery : Protects your privacy on the web ;-)

Syncplaces : Can synchronize your bookmarks and passwords between your browser.

Public Fox : to facilitate parental control in Emmabuntüs 2

Mail readers
Mozilla Thunderbird : Probably the mail handler who will forget Out...
 * Evolution : The Gnome email client including address book, calendar, portal information

Instant Messaging

 * Pidgin (ex Gaim) : The instant messaging client, multi-protocol
 * Skype : is a proprietary software based on a closed communication protocol, which raises ethical and safety (Skype is banned in French universities) concerns. Free alternatives exist : Ekiga and Empathy.
 * Ekiga : Ekiga (ex Gnomeeting), The Free IP Telephony !

File Transfer
Wammu : Tool for managing many mobile phones
 * FileZilla : An excellent FTP client

qBittorrent : Bittorrent client very light

Collaborative work
Framapad : The collaborative online text editor, made ​​available by Framasoft using the code EtherPad

Google-docs : Online and collaborative suit

Online Storage
UbuntuOne : Service for synchronizing and sharing your images, music, contacts and notes between all your computers and mobile devices using a personal storage space on the Web provided by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd. canonical]

Dropbox : An online storage and sharing copies of local files

Office

 * AbiWord : An excellent lightweight free word processor very effective for beginners
 * Gnumeric : The most excellent spreadsheet of the world Gnome

LibreOffice : The truly free Office suite ... including grammar checker LanguageTool


 * Verbiste : To review its french conjugations ;-)

Geany : An editor tailored for developers


 * ePDFviewer : A very light file reader PDF
 * Cuneiform & YAGF : Character recognition software (OCR)

Calibre : is e-book reader that organizes, saves and manages e-books, supporting a variety of formats

FBReader : A book reader ePub format

Kiwix : The offline reader Wikipedia

Audio
Clementine : Music player and modern manager of your music library
 * Rhythmbox : The music player of the Gnome project
 * Audacious : An easy to use audio player, but complete for audiophiles
 * gpodder : Podcast aggregator
 * Audacity : A very good and free editor sounds .Wav, .Ogg and .mp3
 * Pulse Audio : cross-platform sound server. Here you may control the volume by application

Easytag : A tag editor for audio files offer a simple and concise, especially using the freedb database to retrieve the music news

Sound Juicer : Rip your audio CDs freely;-)

Sound Converter : is a small program that is designed to easily convert batches of audio files into other formats

PulseAudio Equalizer : is a 15 bands graphic equalizer for adjusting the sound of your system

Radio Tray : Online radio streaming player

Video
VLC media player (VideoLan Client) : The best solution for watching video broadcast without codec

Kaffeine : Media player very complete


 * Movie Player (Totem) : The Gnome interface video player, it is installed by default and thus benefits a very good integration
 * Cheese : Smile and say « cheese » !
 * MythTV : Digital recording software (Analog, Digital, WebTV, etc.) expandable to a station via a comprehensive multimedia system extensions

Openshot : Video editor of new generation of non-linear video editing

WinFF : Encode easily your videos

KDEnLive : is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor

Arista : Video conversion software which supports many formats

RecordMyDesktop : Software to make screencast, that is to say, capture a video of what is happening on your desktop

Photo
Gimp : The king of image editors of the Free World
 * Shotwell : Organizing images designed for Gnome and F-Spot
 * Picasa : Software image management, visualization and organization on the Web, but not so Free :(
 * Fotoxx : A simple software management and photo editing
 * DigiKam : A new generation photo manager
 * Gnome Photo Printer : Application that can print pictures just as boards

Inkscape : Open Source vector graphics editor

Burn
gCDEmu : CD/DVD Emulator
 * K3b : Perhaps the best reference for burning in Linux
 * Brasero : The Gnome project burner software
 * Xfburn : The burner software included in the environment XFCE

Leisures
PlayOnLinux : To install games coming from proprietary OS-blind ;-)
 * HomeBank : Manage your personal finance easily !
 * Gramps : And what if we create a family tree ?
 * SweetHome3D : Virtual interior design software
 * Stellarium : A planetarium platform for exploring the night sky
 * Celestia : A special astronomy software
 * SuperTux2 : Super Mario with penguins !!!
 * SuperTuxKart : Tux is back in a "Mario Kart Like" ... or "This is not because it is a Ekart need to deviate"
 * TuxGuitar : Software for creating and playing guitar tablature
 * Belooted : To play cards alone or with friends
 * Dominos : To play dominoes, but you have already guessed !!! (Does not work on a 16/9 screen)

WarMUX : is a free and open-source game in the genre of "turn-based artillery games"

Education

 * TuxPaint : Drawing learning for the young and those that still believe to be.
 * TuxMath : To learn or to relearn our multiplication tables
 * TuxTyping : Learn to type with the mascot of linux
 * OmniTux : Following edutainment software
 * GCompris : Excellent educational software (2 to 10 years old approx.)
 * PySyCache : Mouse usage learning software for kids
 * ChildsPlay : A series of edutainment activities from 3 years old.
 * Le Terrier : Educationnal package for children
 * Mister Patato (KTuberling) : To rediscover Mr. Potato

OOo4Kids : Finally an adapted office tool for students and children!

Utilities
HPLIP : HP printers drivers
 * Drivers Canon : Professional drivers for Canon printers
 * pyRenamer : To easily rename a file, without using the horrible Linux command line !!!
 * CatFish : It helps you recover your lost files
 * VirtualBox : Virtualization software
 * Wine : The famous non-Window emulators ...
 * BOINC : Powerful distributed computing platform to help science

xl-wallpaper : is a very lightweight wallpapers changer

ARandR : Tool to manage the display settings of your screens

Caffeine : to disable the screensaver while watching a movie. Available under Xubuntu Menu (top left of the screen) -> Accessories -> Caffeine and settings in the Systray

Maintenance
Ubuntu Tweak : System management and cleaning software

BleachBit : quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy

MultiSystem : With MultiSystem, simply create your MultiBoot LiveUSB


 * Sysinfo : Some info on your system: CPU, RAM, peripherals, etc.
 * Htop : System Monitor with interface
 * Gparted : To partition your disks

Déjà Dup : Very simple backup utility. It aims to hide the complexities relating to the proper way to make backup copies (encryption, backups or local network, frequency of taking backups)

TeamViewer : Non-free software for viewing and controlling a remote computer via Internet

MintWifi : Command line utility to configure the WiFi card, from the Linux Mint distribution

Gufw : GUI for configuring the firewall installed by default in Ubuntu: UFW

MintNanny : Tool to create blacklists of domain names in order to secure the network. It comes from the Linux Mint distribution

Remark : Descriptions of the above software comes from the following sites :


 * Framasoft Library


 * The Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia

= Credits = I also want to thank the artists for their wonderful work, and many elements, artworks that are reproduced here or included on the DVD distribution.

See details on the French version

= Thanks =

I want to thank for their support, their aid, and encouragement all members of the Collective Emmabuntüs, without whom this adventure would not have been possible.

See details on the French version