CrimsonRedMk Member Posted August 26, 2007 Member Share Posted August 26, 2007 Well, I finally burned 3 Shift CDs, and WOW, I'm impressed! This is the first Live CD I've used (Ubuntu, Slax, PCLinuxOS, etc user...) that actually shows no signs of being a CD...everything is really, really fast and works just as if it were on the hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted August 26, 2007 Author Administrators Share Posted August 26, 2007 From Dave Legg: Weekend's final download numbers for Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1).. 26 August 2007 Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) Gnome: 3297 Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) KDE: 4818 Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) Flux: 725 plus whatever's on the tracker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Veteran Posted August 26, 2007 Veteran Share Posted August 26, 2007 Torrent stats: Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) Gnome: 169 (+7 in process) Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) KDE: 184 (+15 in process) Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) Flux: 141 (+10 in process also available from http://tracker.ste-roberts.be/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted August 26, 2007 Author Administrators Share Posted August 26, 2007 Torrent stats:Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) Gnome: 169 (+7 in process) Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) KDE: 184 (+15 in process) Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) Flux: 141 (+10 in process also available from http://tracker.ste-roberts.be/ ^ that's great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 impressive downloads :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David3k Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Is the gnome shift installable to a 1gb usb flash drive? I mean, I don't want it to run like a LiveCD inside the drive, I want it installed to the drive. Is this possible? If it is, can you show me how, or at least point me in the right direction? BTW: My flash drive can only have 1 partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted August 27, 2007 Author Administrators Share Posted August 27, 2007 Is the gnome shift installable to a 1gb usb flash drive?I mean, I don't want it to run like a LiveCD inside the drive, I want it installed to the drive. Is this possible? If it is, can you show me how, or at least point me in the right direction? BTW: My flash drive can only have 1 partition. Not currently, but we will look into this as a future option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoNode Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 What is the root password? What is the root password? What is the root password? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilhelmus Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 What is the root password?What is the root password? What is the root password? root login and wireless dectection: Thanks! I'll write that down to set a default root password in the next version of Shift...for now, open up Konsole and typesudo passwd root Set up a password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosilver4u Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 OK, stop being obnoxious. I am very slow at these things. Since you didn't get a very good answer, here's a slightly better one (hopefully). Fedora installs packages via rpms which can be retrieved via yum. rpms have historically been slower, and not very much fun to work with. One would typically hear the term 'dependency hell' when referring to rpms. Yum has changed the dependency issues a bit, but rpms are still slow. Since 'Shift is Debian based, it uses dpkgs distributed through apt. It is typically faster to install/upgrade things, and the package base is significantly larger, somewhere in the 20,000 range for number of packages available. That's probably the most significant difference that I know of (although there are probably others). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted September 5, 2007 Author Administrators Share Posted September 5, 2007 And using apt tends to solve the dependency issues without other manipulation of files. The Debian repositories are the largest and most used of all the distros (to my knowledge), considering that Ubuntu, Knoppix, as well as others all use some form of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonRedMk Member Posted September 7, 2007 Member Share Posted September 7, 2007 And, if apt-get dosen't want to install dependencies, you can try apt-get install -f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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