September 2nd, 2010· Chromium instead of Firefox because it is snappier, more stable, has built-in page translations, and has a cleaner albeit at first non-intuitive UI. HTML5 video codecs included.
· Shotwell instead of F-Spot - a nice fast tool, it is happening in Ubuntu 10.10 as well.
· Pidgin instead of Empathy - while I am sure that Empathy and the Telepathy stack is the way in the future, Pidgin is more mature at this point.
· VLC 1.1.3 along with Totem . VLC just handles better regular movies, DVDs, and subtitles. Totem is kept because Chromium annoyingly (but wisely) does not support Mozilla browser plugins that don't use XEmbed and are written instead in the old way using X Intrinsics.
· Adobe Flashplugin and the gstreamer ungood bunch for mp3 and various other codecs.
· Libdvdcss2 for encrypted DVD support
· Evolution removed as most home users are on webmail. The nice desktop-webmail helper app included
· p7zip and rar tools added to help file-roller deal with archives sent by Windows users.
· Gnote instead of Tomboy - more or less equivalent
· Compiz extra settings config
· Firmware to support the Speedtouch 330 USB modem driver - the initial reason to create this derivative is still shipped on the CD, but now fewer people need it having migrated to saner ISP connection equipment.
· Removed Mono, Erlang + CouchDB, Telepathy, Gwibber - as space needed to be freed for the above software the ones that were removed are those I considered stuff for more savvy users and less used by beginners.
May 2nd, 2009· The supported languages on the CD are English, Hungarian and Romanian.
· GUI for pppoeconf and support for Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem firmware.
· A graphical tool for restoring GRUB boot menus lost after installing other OSes.
· Evolution removed, no mail client at all on the CD
· Flashplugin-nonfree and gstreamer codecs for restricted audio and video formats
· Encrypted DVD playback via libdvdcss2
· Compiz extra settings GUI
· p7zip, unrar
December 18th, 2008· Kiwi Linux 8.12 is a desktop CD based on Ubuntu 8.10 for the x86 architecture. It contains packages necessary for playing restricted multimedia formats by default and supports the Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem. The list of available languages is English, French, German, Hungarian and Romanian. Differences between Ubuntu 8.10 and Kiwi Linux 8.08: packages up to date as of 2008-12-15; added Wubi; OpenOffice.org 3.0 with up to date Romanian translation; GUI for pppoeconf; a graphical tool for restoring GRUB boot menus lost after installing other operating system; Evolution removed; Flash plugin and GStreamer codecs for restricted audio and video formats....
August 30th, 2008· Kiwi Linux 8.08 is a desktop CD derivative based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS for the x86 architecture. It contains packages necessary for playing restricted audio, video and Flash formats by default and supports the SpeedTouch 330 USB ADSL modem. Differences with respect to Ubuntu 8.04.1: packages up to date as of 28 August 2008; Thunderbird as the default mail client, Audacious as the default music player; Flash plugin and all GStreamer codecs; Compiz extra settings GUI; unrar and MS TrueType fonts; a graphical tool for restoring GRUB; Midnight Commander; the Medibuntu repositories enabled by default to allow installing w32codecs, Skype and Google Earth.
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