GNOME Live Demos

GNOME Live Media

The GNOME Demos contain all the latest and greatest GNOME software and provide a great way to test GNOME without requiring to install it on your PC.

GNOME offers a number of different ways to test or try GNOME in the environment of your choice. These are all "Live" systems, meaning full GNU/Linux systems with GNOME included using various virtualization technologies. The current Live Media for download are based on GNOME 2.26 (release notes).

GNOME 2.26 Live Media available for download

VMware and VirtualBox

Run GNOME in VMWare Player or in VirtualBox in a GNU/Linux virtual machine. You can get the VMWare Player here, or you can install the VirtualBox package of your distribution. Download the GNOME 2.26 VMware Live Demo:

Download:

VMware player/workstation:

• gnome-2.26-x86.vmware.tar.gz.torrent
• gnome-2.26-x86.vmware.tar.gz

VMware ESX Server:

• gnome-2.26-x86.esx.tar.gz.torrent
• gnome-2.26-x86.esx.tar.gz

QEMU and Parallels

Run GNOME on a virtual machine using QEMU on GNU/Linux or Parallels for Mac or GNU/Linux. Download the GNOME 2.26 Live Demo raw hard disk image:

Download:

• gnome-2.26-x86.hdd.gz.torrent
• gnome-2.26-x86.hdd.gz

To run in QEMU or KVM in a terminal type:

gunzip gnome-2.26-x86.hdd.gz
qemu -mem 256 gnome-2.26-x86.hdd

GNOME Installable DVD

To GNOME install onto your own computer, or into a virtual machine of your choice, download, burn to CD, and boot your computer.

Download:

• gnome-2.26-x86-dvd1.iso
• gnome-2.26-x86-dvd1.iso

For more information, visit the GnomeLiveMedia wiki page.