Arch-based Shift Tech Demo, or any Alpha software?

[LTSmash]

Ok, the question is simple.

Is there already any alpha or demo of shift under Linux going on right now?

I want to begin working with it, so i'd like to know where to begin.

[Evolution]

Since they just announced it, it's very unlikely, just try working with Arch alone right now.

[changturkey]

Where would we get up-to-date news?

[_neutrino Veteran]

you should be able to track the news and other information here

http://www.shiftlinux.net/

[changturkey]

I can't find the IRC channel..

[rson451]

I can't find the IRC channel..

The channel is #shiftlinux on irc.neowin.net

[p858snake]

you can find out about the IRC server here http://services.neowin.net/irc/ and the shift channel is #shiftlinux

[hopp58902 Member]

Tech preview coming just as soon as the mouse works!

[squiggy]

Tech preview coming just as soon as the mouse works!

Thats awesome,cant wait to give it a try!!

[hopp58902 Member]

Still working on the ******* mouse. The new Xorg changed the way mice are handled - nice. Here.

[4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran]

I am personally very interested in this Shift Arch distro. I know Arch is faster and leaner than Ubuntu. I'm looking forward to trying it out! I have a five year old laptop and Ubuntu is speedy on it but I want more! lol

[rrplay]

Still working on the ******* mouse. The new Xorg changed the way mice are handled - nice. Here.

I can relate and wait for the beta not sure how many new users to arch would like to # Xorg -configure then install the other necessary drivers on a much anticipated distro.

[hopp58902 Member]

OK, these news are a bit old but, we have X running in a dirt way that we don't really like, but it's a start. I'm currently in Final Exams mode, but I have break starting Saturday. So, basically, expect a development proof of concept alpha sometime near January 1st (if all goes well).

[Simon Veteran]

I'm done with exams now and can go back to managing the distro how I wanted to. The shift (pun intended) of power was at an inconvenient time, I only had a week before I needed to dedicate more time to studying.

So if you're wondering why we had a few days of activity then silence... there it is.

[hopp58902 Member]

I'm done with exams too! Convenient we both ended on the same day huh simon360?

[hopp58902 Member]

Before I make an ISO for testing, i need a bootscreen and a wallpaper. See GRUB guidelines for the bootscreen. I NEED those as we can't legally have "Arch Linux" anywhere basically, they've got their name and logo copyrighted.

[LTSmash]

Before I make an ISO for testing, i need a bootscreen and a wallpaper. See GRUB guidelines for the bootscreen. I NEED those as we can't legally have "Arch Linux" anywhere basically, they've got their name and logo copyrighted.

I don't believe this would be an issue if only developers had acess to this release... I don't believe early bases for the system would be of any use to users, even if they just wanted to take a look because they would be basically watching ArchLinux, not yet Shift for that purpose...

Please hurry uploading that ISO so we can everybody get to work on it :p

[hopp58902 Member]

About that ISO - We've added some basic *new* wifi drivers to this release and are going to split with Arch on this one - we're not using Arch's network modules, instead, we're bringing over Gnome's NetworkManager for managing the wifi. That might sound like a bunch of garbage, but, get this, I was able to set up wifi on my laptop - a first! No downloads needed, no installation (but there MIGHT be one configuration file to change, changing the name of the interface "wlan0" might register as something else on other computers - I don't know.)

In short - Better Wifi.

Edit: Arch Linux's network daemon, not modules.