ff.eternal Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Hi 1. Does Shift 0.6.2 KDE have an updater which will update the distro to the next version released? 2. Is it possible to install Shift 0.6.2 from a USB stick? Many thanks Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted February 4, 2008 Administrators Share Posted February 4, 2008 Hi1. Does Shift 0.6.2 KDE have an updater which will update the distro to the next version released? 2. Is it possible to install Shift 0.6.2 from a USB stick? Many thanks Sam In answer to your questions: 1. Shift uses Apt (or Synaptic) and can be updated as any other debian based distro. 2. We have not specifically made a Shift distro for a USB stick (yet). It is in the plans, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Veteran Posted February 5, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2008 You can keep KDE 0.6.2 up to date, however we won't support going from 0.6.2 to 0.7 without a fresh install, unless there's enough demand. It's a lot of work to prepare an upgrade like that, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted February 5, 2008 Administrators Share Posted February 5, 2008 You can keep KDE 0.6.2 up to date, however we won't support going from 0.6.2 to 0.7 without a fresh install, unless there's enough demand. It's a lot of work to prepare an upgrade like that, unfortunately. Yeah, an upgrade of Shift is a different story... at least for the present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Don't want to take this thread off on a tangent, but just wondering what's going to happen when April comes? Is my Shift install going to offer to upgrade to Hardy Heron? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted February 5, 2008 Administrators Share Posted February 5, 2008 Don't want to take this thread off on a tangent, but just wondering what's going to happen when April comes? Is my Shift install going to offer to upgrade to Hardy Heron? Currently, we plan to release our next version in about 6 months. We will look less like Ubuntu and much more customized. If plans change, we will let everyone know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I may be mistaken, and correct me if I'm wrong, but if Shift is using Ubuntu's repos, then surely once Hardy is released my update manager will tell me, and ask if I want to dist-upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04, even though I'm using Shift. How's that going to work? Do we have to keep ignoring it? Unless the Shift wizards have done some jiggery-pokery so that it automatically ignores the update...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted February 6, 2008 Administrators Share Posted February 6, 2008 You are probably right, however, we haven't moved that far into our newest version to speak about upgrades as of yet. But, we hold no secrets... so as soon as we decide on how we want Shift to handle this, we'll be the first to let you know. Promise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonRedMk Member Posted February 11, 2008 Member Share Posted February 11, 2008 Yeah, Shift will want to become Hardy :p . If we had our own repository, then we could push updates, but we're sticking to Ubuntu for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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