what I thnk would make Shift Linux all other distros

[DGMurdockIII]

get better sound support for on board card this might help with it http://www.opensound.com/ & http://www.alsa-project.org/

better plug in play support

allow you to use the auto update feature in firefox and other app that have a auto update feature

a simple control panel that contains all the system setup utilities in one places kinda like windows one dose

a separate program to add and remove programs

have one app for your hardware info like device manger on windows

Easy was to configer you video card

on the cd if you all ready installed and you get a file missing on the installer have a way to repair the OS install

add a installer like wubi for people who want to install it right from windows to make a dual boot systal

nice installer like fedora has witch is called Anaconda http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda

Use packagekit to improve standardization - http://packagekit.org/

add Memtest86+ to live cd menu for memory test

media center version of shift linux

have a program that can collect hardware info and send it back to the dev so they can make a date base of what ever one is using and get better support for it and have it have let you tell the dev if there is hardware and what hardware you cant get to work so you guys could try to see if you can get ti to work

Get this distro LSB Certified - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB

that all i can think of now if those get add i thnk shif linux will be on its way to being more user friendly and a good linux os

[markwolfe Veteran]

Most of those things are tied into what Ubuntu and Linux can already support. (like Plug-n-Play)

The "control panel" is already a system menu with those items, not sure there is an advantage into making a Linux work like Windows by opening a separate window that has the same items presented in a window instead of a menu.

The add/remove programs app is already there. Synaptic

There might already be a 'system info' option. If not, is "sysinfo" what you are thinking of? http://www.chinwong.com/grafx/sysinfo.gif

Anaconda is pretty tied-into Red Hat.

PackageKit seems to be just like synaptic.

Memtest is already included.

[Nic]

Which distro is Shift based off of? Ubuntu?

[markwolfe Veteran]

Yes. Shift, at the moment, is mostly Ubuntu but with some differing packages pre-selected, and different action items to be worked on (like including an updated memtest, as the Ubuntu offering is not current), plus custom items suited toward Neowin members and their input.

The project switched from a Morphix base to an Ubuntu base, and underwent a sort of restructuring, so there is mostly re-learning going on with the Ubuntu base. Future versions will start to deviate more, based on input from Neowin members like this thread. For example, the "system info" app, sysinfo doesn't seem to be included by default in Ubuntu. If there is no equivalent app, this could be included in a location easy to find, so Neowin members can call it up and post the relevant info here in the forums if they run into problems.

[DGMurdockIII]

yes im sysinfo is somthing im thinking of but unlike in windows it wont show you if there is a driver that is not installed correctly like device manger will that one think i would like to see it or a simarly app do

what about using packagekit did any of you look at that - http://packagekit.org/

what about adding Envy to the OS http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

and what about also adding support for Autopackage too http://www.autopackage.org/

and improving the sound support because right now I get no sound on shift linux or any linux distro i have tryed in the past the only one i did get sound on was desktopBSD