.. Public domain 2014 Luis Felipe López Acevedo <felipe.lopac@gmail.com>
 
    This work is dedicated to the public domain. To the extent possible under
    law, Luis Felipe López Acevedo has waived all copyright and related or
    neighboring rights to Aurora documentation.


.. _overview:

Overview
========

`gNewSense <http://www.gnewsense.org/>`_ is an operating system based on
`Debian <http://debian.org/>`_. The upcoming version of gNewSense, version 4,
will be based on Debian 7, also known as Wheezy. As a derivative, gNewSense
needs to modify some components of the system so that they look like
gNewSense and refer to gNewSense resources instead of Debian's.

Aurora is a visual theme for gNewSense made to replace Debian's default
appearance. It includes *wallpapers*, background images for different
components of the system, an icon theme and themes for different desktop
environments such as `GNOME <http://www.gnome.org/>`_,
`KDE <http://www.kde.org/>`_ and `Xfce <http://www.xfce.org/>`_.



System installer
----------------

.. figure:: /_static/aurora-installer-splash.png
   :alt: Installer main menu
   
   Splash image for the Installer's main menu

.. figure:: /_static/aurora-installer-banner.png
   :alt: Banner in GUI Installer
   
   Banner image for the GUI Installer



Boot loader
-----------

.. figure:: /_static/aurora-grub.png
   :alt: GNU GRUB 2 menu with Aurora background
   
   Background image for GNU GRUB 2



Desktop themes
--------------

.. figure:: /_static/gnewsense-4-gnome-desktop.png
   :alt: GNOME Desktop in gNewSense 4
   
   GNOME 3 Desktop theme