GNOME
Who says you can't get full-blown gnome onto your internet tablet!


Firstly, i would like to thank fatalsaint and Stskeeps for helping, thank you.

Currently their are two ways to install Gnome Option 1 is to install Gnome thrue Stskeeps installer (currently nit-env-gnome-basic is available) and Option2, thrue theas instructions. (If you want to install full blown Gnome, follow theas instructions, I am currently busy with nit-env-gnome-full and will update this post when it is complete.)

Also, two screenshots are provided at the bottom of this post with the last one being my costom desktop with the marrine gtk theme engine.


What works~
*Power management- even login/logout in gdm
*wierless- in Debian beta4
*the powermenu will launch with the power button!
*sound ~ (unconfermed for me)
*Basicly allmost everything
what needs work: Gnome splash screen manager ~ (Refuses to install other splash themes.)


How to:

Minimum requirments:

*At least a 4gig memory card
*Debian beta4 (for less memory consumion i'd use "nit-evn-x")
*Extreme pashints (depending on your connection, this may take a verry long time (4-5 hours), i'd recomend to start this early in the morning because it may not be done until around noon.


installation:

Step1 Read the instructions on Stskeep's website and download/run the Debian installer making shure that you have all dependincys installed.


Step2 If the install went well, run "chroot /mnt/nit-debian" If the install did not go well, run "chroot /mnt/nit-debian" before continuing and then run "apt-get -f install".


Step3 Now it's time to install gnome , if you wish to get gnome with a full blown office sute and media sute (gimp, openoffice, Abiword, Xournal, ect..) With everything installed, run "apt-get -f install gnome", this will take up about 1.5 gb of memory. However, if you just want a desktop environment, just run "apt-get -f install gnome-desktop-enviornment", this will take up about 700-900 mb of memory.


Step 4 Now we need to edit the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file so we can use the desktop with the touch screen, just add theas to the file, also, the "AutomaticLogin=user" would be your user password:

[daemon]
# Automatic login, if true the first attached screen will automatically logged
# in as user as set with AutomaticLogin key.
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=user

[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0 -mouse tslib -nozap -dpi 96 -wr -nolisten tcp
flexible=true


Step 5 Now to install the matchbox-keyboard so we can type in gnome, Just run "apt-get -f install matchbox-keyboard"

Step6 run "exit" and "umount /mnt/nit-debian" and reboot.