Shift Linux 0.5 RC-2 Released

Shift Linux is a project that was created by the Neowin community. Shift is Debian based, therefore it has access to all of the software and applications as other Debian distributions. Neowin's Shift Linux is designed to give the user an experience of being part of the Neowin community as well as having a simple, easy-to-use Live CD that can be installed to your hard drive, if you enjoy the way our distribution works. Shift is a free, GPL-based Linux distribution that can be freely distributed or modified. There are no restrictions with Shift.

Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-2) includes three fully branded versions: KDE, Gnome, and Flux, all Live CDs. Included in this version are most of the most popular packages to include wireless support and a desktop installer. In addition, we have newly created packages such as:
1. k3b (All versions)
2. Rhythmbox (All versions)
3. Bluetooth Support (All versions)
4. HP Printer Drivers (All versions)
5. Power management and laptop detection (All versions)
6. NTFS Read/Write support (All versions)
7. Envy (All versions)
8. New branding!
9. Extremely fast...You'll forget it's a CD in 5 minutes.

Feel free to download and try our newest release. It has been designed for increased loading speeds. Please post any bugs found in our Bug Tracker.


Shift 0.5 (RC-2) Gnome:
http://files.neowin.net/download.php?file=5

Shift 0.5 (RC-2) KDE:
http://files.neowin.net/download.php?file=6

Shift 0.5 (RC-2) Fluxbox:
http://files.neowin.net/download.php?file=7

Thanks again to the Neowin members who have made this distribution possible. This is by far, the best release yet!

Lots of new graphics....... anyone who would like to post screenies here, please do!

impressive.

Can somebody please post some pictureS?

I am sure that they will be coming shortly......

Screenshot of Shift Linux Gnome desktop running under VM Fusion on MBP.

Click to view attachment

^ Awesome Background

Can i run the above Live CD's on am AMD64 processor or do I need to wait for the x64 versions.

Here is a screen of Shift Linux KDE running on VMware Workstation:

Guys, are the Mono Project and MonoDevelop integrated with Shift Linux?

No one has requested this until now.... we will look into it as soon as possible.

Hi everyone. I'm pretty much a total newb when it comes to Linux (yes, I'm used to Windows), but I like the looks of this version, and I have "messed around" with a few of the linux distributions in the past.

Which version of the three is the best for a newb like me?

It depends on what Desktop Environment you prefer, I guess. I never found Gnome a good fit for me, and used to prefer KDE. The past few years, I have been 100% fluxbox, and would not want to go back to a KDE/Gnome environment.


Is there a torrent being set up, so I can help seed?

will this run in IBOOK g3 500MHZ, 256MB RAM?

Not yet, that I know, Mark...... but there will be one soon, I am sure.




I do not know.......



We plan on creating a 64-bit edition, but this CD ran fine on my 64-bit AMD2. Try it out.....


**And we need some Fluxbox edition screen shots if anyone is running that now.........

No.

x86 only.

Thanks Barney!

Like I said in the comments, when you integrate it, I'll be using Shift as my Linux development VM.

I'm on it

Fluxbox screen shots here: http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/kre...hift/flux05rc2/


Edit: I only got 3 for now because I'm running in qemu and it's slow as hell. I don't know what's wrong with this program lately but it's making everything slow even with ram set to 512mb. I'll have to load these into VMWare or Virtualbox for a better experience. Anyway here's the link

Edit 2: Okay after running it in Virtualbox, which was nice and fast I added 2 more screenshots. You may notice they look different because I changed the GTK theme to clearlooks as it looks better and I wanted to show that it could be done so people don't have to see the ugly default theme

why i cant get 1280x1024 resolution?? my video card is a radeon x800 pci xpress

Hey, just to let you guys know, the root password is "root". Simple enough huh? I suggest burning CD's and actually trying this out, a virtual machine only goes so far!

The password can be set if you open a terminal and use hit enter and then type your new password.

Shall be setting the torrents up momenterraly

Created torrents for all 3, available at:

http://tracker.ste-roberts.be/



ste

kewl

Downloading & seeding...

And the fine folks at Distrowatch have picked us up again:

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04459

lol like how thet only link to my tracker

ste

Does it bundled with C/C++ & Java development tools? Want to run it off LiveCD without downloading those development tools separately

Current Downloads:

Neowin-

Gnome: 1199

KDE: 1508

Flux: 451


Torrents-

Gnome: 69

KDE: 145

Flux: 72


and that is after only one day

Be careful, Kreuger, I have "people" to deal with criticizers

Barney: that's insane, once again!

And the development goes on...lots of downloads, lots of feedback...lots more coming!

/end teaser/

And, DaViD_BRaNDoN, I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but gcc, make, automake, autoconf, gdb, and libc6-dev are included. No Java development tools, but if it's GPL, we'd look into including it.

i think he means the JDK, the JDK is now GPL

ste

Anyone have any driver problems? I installed shift on to a hd, and my mouse would move at all. Anyone have an idea?

Thanks for the clarification. Glad that it has GCC. And ste was right on the JDK.

Whyever all those ppl want KDE - I'd still prefer the lightweight Fluxbox.

Thanks for the release, it's good to see that there's another Debian based distribution made by users, not by money-making companies. I'll see it I get time to do sth with it.

For a newbie, what is recommended? Gnome? KDE? Flux?
Those are UIs, right? Sorry, total newbie here to Linux.

Those are UIs, yes...

KDE is very much Windows-like, so most ppl with enhanced Linux experience consider it bloated.
Fluxbox is sort of a "KDE light", but older (afaik), and GNOME is sth completely different...

See kde.org and gnome.org.

Flux is not KDE light in any sense what so ever. It's completely different. Gnome is more similar to KDE than Fluxbox is.

Yeah. Fluxbox is very minimal. No desktop icons. No "control panel" for system properties. No "start menu" on the desktop, you right-click and get your menu there.

And the origins of the *box Window Managers may be 'older' than KDE, but that doesn't mean *boxes are obsolete or use 'old code'.

Ah ... well, I mixed it up with fvwm... and was misled by the screenshots. Don't matter.

Update on downloads (09/12/07):

shiftgnome-rc2.iso 2690
shiftkde-rc2.iso 6092
shiftflux-rc2.iso 1407


Torrents:

shiftgnome-rc2.iso 117
shiftkde-rc2.iso 241
shiftflux-rc2.iso 113

10,660. WOW!

Shift 0.5 RC2, Gnome edition.

System:
HP Compaq dc5750 Small Factory Factor

Does not load Shift Linux (Expert not for me ):
PnPBIOS: dev_node_info: function not supported on this system.
PnPBIOS: Unable to get node info. Aborting.

Gelp!

VmWare loads OK.

Feel free to download and try our newest release. It has been designed for increased loading speeds. Please post any bugs found in our Bug Tracker.
Shift 0.5 (RC-2) Gnome:
http://files.neowin.net/download.php?file=5

Shift 0.5 (RC-2) KDE:
http://files.neowin.net/download.php?file=6

Shift 0.5 (RC-2) Fluxbox:
http://files.neowin.net/download.php?file=7


What are the system requirements for each of these....
Is Shift meant for low resource Pentium 100's and k6's will it run on those
or do you need a vista machine.....

What was it designed to run on.....

tnx

burdicda

^ Linux is designed to run on any Pentium processor. However, if you have a lower level CPU, or a minimum amount of RAM (64 MB is the lowest reasonable amount.... and that is pushing it) then you should opt for Fluxbox. That desk manager is designed for low resource computers.

I've been a neowin user and fan for long time, but couldn't participate in the Shift Linux drive that you guys have been running... I had seen it when you guys were running the logo competition... I've also been an active Linux contributor at SuSE... Hoping to be part of team to build the next version, if you guys have room!!

Just buzz me, when you have the next build starting!! Will be downloading, working and will give feedback on this one for the moment!!

Its 80% downloaded and Im getting HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable ... Any ideas why this would happen??

Wow, I haven't heard of that... I'll check with Dave and get back to you ......

I posted this in the thread on the front page yesterday. No replies and I didn't notice the link on that page to here, so I'm postin it here now.

Man, I just couldn't wait. Have to admit, I'm trying this on this old a** raggedy box I mentioned above, but I just downloaded and burned the iso. Went to try the live cd, and there was that message I've gotten on this machine with EVERY Linux distro I've tried on here as it's booting up:

You have passed an undefined paramater something or other and I never get to a desktop.
Don't have another computer on, at the moment, to start searching for answers, and don't remember/know the commands off the top of my head to do anything with it. I know it's the video. I have Intel integrated 82810 chip.

What do I need to do to get this thing off the ground, so I can start playing/re-learning this distro, so I can be ready to pretend to know what I'm doing when the final release comes out? I'm attempting to use the Flux version.

Thank you

^ Thanks for the nice response. We are trying to make this distro the very best there is! I hope that we do not disappoint you.

Barney

It looks very smooth and just looks great! I may try it out later if I get away from Photoshop and Windows.

Thanks RedFlow...stick around for our Final release....the best is still to be unveiled!