Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-2) released


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Current Downloads:

Neowin-

Gnome: 1199

KDE: 1508

Flux: 451

Torrents-

Gnome: 69

KDE: 145

Flux: 72

and that is after only one day :)

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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 :)

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

Barney: that's insane, once again!

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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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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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'.

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

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

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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

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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!

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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.

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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

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^ 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.

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  • 2 weeks later...

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!!

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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 ......

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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

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^ 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

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