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It has been a bit since I’ve posted here. I’ve been trying to update things more in the forums. Speaking of forums, I’ve expanded the categories / forums that are available in preparation for the upcoming Lemur 5 release. As for the pending release…all I can say is, we are closer. There have been a … Continue reading “What’s New”

As mentioned in a forum post, I’m taking Lemur back to its original green theme. Here is a sample…

I decided to spice up the current wallpaper today. So, I fired up Gimp 3.x to see what I could come up with. After spending 20 minutes fighting with said Gimp 3.x due to crashes, filters not working right, brushes all messed up, etc. I gave up and went back to my trusty Gimp 2.x … Continue reading “New Wallpaper”

This is my current setup that I use daily. This is the Lemur 5 base with Hybrid mode enabled. I prefer the Hybrid setup over the stock Window Maker. There is still a lot to do before a release will be ready but I’m making progress. Stay tuned for more…

Here is a screenshot of the Lemur 5 base. This is full Window Maker (not the usual Lemur Hybrid). It is by no means polished and fine tuned. I will get to adding the custom graphics, themes, icons, etc. soon. My main focus is the custom Lemur scripts and apps, that I will have to … Continue reading “Lemur 5 Base”

Some of you might wonder why I’m back at Lemur development again and why won’t I just let Lemur die. Well, the answer is not that simple and is really two-fold. First, if you’ve read the About page or you’re already familiar with Lemur and myself you will know my first answer. Lemur is and … Continue reading “Why won’t Lemur die?”

I’m not sure where to begin with this post. Lemur has been on a roller coaster ride for awhile now. And it took me with it! So, here we are again… I’ve tried many times to bring Lemur back, but each time either I had trouble with the build or too much going on in … Continue reading “The Return of Lemur – The Sequel”

I’ve been away from all things Liquid Lemur for awhile now. I started rebuilding Lemur from the ground up a couple years ago. I managed to get a prototype running on Debian 11. However, when I moved to Debian 11 (the last Lemur, 4.1 was on Debian 10) a lot of things broke. Several of … Continue reading “The Return of Lemur”

Liquid Lemur is about to be reborn with Lemur 5. Yesterday I finally figured out the issues with running a default Window Maker layout and the dockapps. As seen in the above screenshot from my laptop, it’s working fine. Due to this recent discovery, I am changing Lemur back to a default Window Maker layout. … Continue reading “Lemur 5 Reborn!”

Development is underway on the next release of Liquid Lemur Linux, Lemur 5. The release will bring some major changes to the Lemur OS and fix a lot of issues. The Debian base that Lemur uses will still be Debian 10 as in Lemur 4, but it will be rebuilt from scratch this time. The … Continue reading “Lemur 5 Coming Soon!”

As I have mentioned previously, I’m having trouble with the Window Maker dock apps used in Lemur. This has been an ongoing problem since day one of the Window Maker Lemurs. However, it seems to get worse with each Debian update. This is why, years ago, I started the Window Maker Resurrection Project (WMRP). I … Continue reading “The Future Lemur…”

Liquid Lemur Linux 4.1 has been released. It should be available on the download server by the time you read this post. Unfortunately, there is no upgrade path from previous Lemurs (including 4.0) due to the entire Lemur update system being re-written. Going forward from this release, you will be able to upgrade without doing … Continue reading “Lemur 4.1 Released!”

It has been a long time coming, but Liquid Lemur Linux 4.0 has been released! I’ll get the forums back online in the next day or two… Lemur 4 still comes in the pre-morphed state. I planned to release it in the default Window Maker layout. However, after updating to Debian 10 (Buster) a lot … Continue reading “Lemur 4 Released!”

Above you will see a simple screenshot of Liquid Lemur 4.0 that is currently under development. This is an early prototype and not ready for testing. Lemur 4.0 is running on Debian Buster. I trimmed down the default Conky, removing the redundant bits. I am slowly working to rebuild the Lemur custom apps and other … Continue reading “Liquid Lemur 4.0”

So, as you may know, I’ve been having trouble with spammers on the Lemur Forums. So much that I shut off registrations. There are some other issues with the forums that need attention as well. And that takes time. As I have mentioned a time or two, my free time is short these days. In … Continue reading “Lemur Forums”

Let’s get back to building a better Lemur! Over the last few months I’ve been building and rebuilding all things Liquid Lemur. During that time a lot has happened. I had a career change, continued to devote time to my own business, family, and life in general. I had a huge setback with the data … Continue reading “The (re)Building Begins”

I thought I would update everyone with the current state of all things Lemur… As you may know, Lemur development has been moving at a snail’s pace lately. To add to the slow development, I’ve had a couple of family members that were sick and in the hospital. I’ve had to work different shifts at … Continue reading “State of the Lemur”

Liquid Lemur is working its way back to where it once was, minus a few desktop editions of course. The image above is from the first “official” Liquid Lemur Linux release years ago. This was the release where Liquid OS became Liquid Lemur. This was the Xfce edition (no longer in production). It was built … Continue reading “Latest Lemur News”

So, I recently released the first Alpha of Lemur 3.0 (Seen in the image above). It actually was more of a pre-Alpha release. I probably should have held it back, but I needed to test the waters on a few things. Yes, it was missing a thing or two…okay, it was missing a lot! However, … Continue reading “Liquid Lemur 3.0”

It’s hard to believe that Liquid Lemur is over 10 years old! I originally started it back in 2007 (It officially became known as Liquid Lemur in 2009). It started out as Palemoon Linux and later became Liquid OS. I was never happy with those names and those distros were more experimental than anything else. … Continue reading “We begin again…”