Gak

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About

Gak is a livecd based on Ubuntu Minimal. Gak's major applications include web browsing, torrenting, and functional programming.

Screenshots

Wallpaper

Terminal

Flash

What's the default login?

Username: gak
Password: gak

Packages

• Alsa - Audio configuration
• Feh - Wallpaper configuration
• GCC - C/C++ compilation
• gksu - Graphical privilege escalation
• Google Chrome - Web browser with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript 1.7/Flash 10 support
• Haskell - Functional programming language
• Ivman - Automount external hard drives
• Openbox - Lightweight window manager
• OpenSSH Server - Remote command line service
• Rar and Unrar - Create and extract RAR files
• Remastersys - Backup utility
• Scrot - Screenshots
• Transmission - BitTorrent client
• Unzip - Create and extract ZIP files
• Uxterm - Graphical terminal emulator
• Vim - Command line text editor
• VLC - Media player
• Xarchiver - Graphical archive utility
• XFE - File manager
• Xfwrite - Graphical text editor
• Xpdf - PDF viewer

Installation

1. At the boot menu, choose Start or Install (it doesn't matter which).
2. Right-click -> Terminal
3. Enter ubiquity
4. Follow the instructions

Oddities

No need to login manually, thanks to a custom startup script, ob.sh.

Google Chrome hotkeys are fixed with the Backspace As Back/Forward for Linux extension.

How to take a screenshot

1. Right-click the Gak background.
2. Select Screenshot from the menu.
3. After a delay of three seconds, a screenshot will be captured.
4. The result is timestamped and saved in /home/gak.

Requirements

• Intel x86 CPU
• 256 MB RAM
• 2 GB HD