Announcement: Revival of Shiftlinux.net

[hopp58902 Member]

Shiftlinux.net has been a place for outsiders (from Neowin's community) to learn about Shift Linux, and, let's face it, it is truly and completely out of date. I've started updating the content a little, is there anything you guys would suggest adding or removing or changing?

[Stephen Veteran]

link to repo site?

information on the repos? etc

[LTSmash]

Well, yes, you should change the contests to tell people we're actually working on a new version from scratch (i mean, from Arch!) and errase the old versions since noone seems to be using that...

Also, the wiki should be started from zero.

[hopp58902 Member]

Wiki! I'll look at where that is. By the way, all of the packages for the Preview are ready. Now updating some packages and setting some settings ;)

[LTSmash]

Wiki! I'll look at where that is. By the way, all of the packages for the Preview are ready. Now updating some packages and setting some settings ;)

OFFTOPIC: How do I get the Shift linux group membership?

[redeemed]

By working as a dev on the ShiftLinux project.

[markwolfe Veteran]

I would like to see links to sites that have the often-used closed-source apps that Linuxers would want. Things like Skype and such.

[LTSmash]

I would like to see links to sites that have the often-used closed-source apps that Linuxers would want. Things like Skype and such.

Check Archlinux's AUR:

http://aur.archlinux.org

(E.G. Skype: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9296)

[hopp58902 Member]

We'll put Skype into the Shift repo now that you mention it. pacman -S skype anyone? Thanks LTSmash. As for how to get into the group - once the ISO of the preview is out, we'll need a list of bugs and the best way to be a part of Shift is to add to it. If you can fix some of the bugs and know your way around an Arch box (I think you do), we'll consider it. Of course, I'm not the one who decides who's in and who's not, but I'll forward it to the appropriate place.

[Lechio]

Put up the tutorials in the website too, once you have time of course. :)

That would sure help people who wish to contribute with themes and such

[LTSmash]

We'll put Skype into the Shift repo now that you mention it. pacman -S skype anyone? Thanks LTSmash. As for how to get into the group - once the ISO of the preview is out, we'll need a list of bugs and the best way to be a part of Shift is to add to it. If you can fix some of the bugs and know your way around an Arch box (I think you do), we'll consider it. Of course, I'm not the one who decides who's in and who's not, but I'll forward it to the appropriate place.

Skype is in Arch's [Comunity] repo... I guess there's no need to move. but then again, I believe I do not yet undertand what you plan to do with the repos.

And yeah, I know my way on Arch (2+ years using it :p)

[hopp58902 Member]

Ah, didn't see Skype there - you're right LTSmash. The repos will have packages not in default repos, built using makepkg either from AUR or our own applications. Themes, icon packs, and other goodies will be in there too.