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Aurora : A Rebrand , a new direction

June 28th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

Hi All,

So you’ve all seen the big changes so far!? Im guessing so otherwise you wouldn’t be on the blog :D

Eeebuntu is Dead : Long live Aurora!

Its been 12 months in the making and we are happy that we can finally put it all out in the open for true community involvement. Over the next few weeks we will be opening the doors for you guys to get involved more and more if you wish!

So what to expect from Aurora? Well we are working now towards Aurora 0.5 (beta / eb4 beta2) with a tonne of fixes over before! The main body of work is going into our own custom installer known as exogenesis. Its a truly amazing piece of work by Steve who’s put in ALOT of hours to get it where it is!

We will be moving the development of exogenesis into a git repository and posting the remaining work to be in the hope we can get some other developers on board :D . Any experience with vala then please get involved in this brilliant project!

As well as the installer we also are working on our own custom kernels to greater improve wireless support out of the box. On our latest test builds we are seeing 90% or more of the hardware on netbooks being supported ; which is brilliant! These kernels will be available for testing in the coming weeks.

The next point to bring up is our Ambitious Aurora Guides project. Some of us aren’t coders or designers but brilliant at annotating our ideas into tutorials and the like! This is your channel to get involved. We aim to create a set of tutorials for free download on the site and then offer these as hard copies by a magazine subscription every quarter. The tutorial subjects and aim of the magazine will be up for FULL community discussion and decision. We have been looking around and the best choice of collaboration / discussion applications around and have settled on google wave for the time being. In the coming weeks we will add some more detail to the guides section of  the site and hopefully put on some Q/A and Discussion sessions to see / gauge the level of interest from users to get involved in this.

The final point I think worth mentioning is the new adopt a package idea. We are interested in getting users to maintain an application they use day to day; ensuring we always have the latest beta and stable editions available for general use in our 2 repo tree’s. If you are interested please let us know in the getinvolved forum. We will be generating a list for the wiki over the next few weeks so people can start looking into the applications and putting their names down.

Thanks for bearing with us for the release of Aurora – we can’t work quick enough to get it sorted for you!

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  • Eumel

    Hey devs, i really like your work and the redesign and rebranding is amazing imo. When could we expect some experiments with the Cream desktop environment? :-)

    greetz eumel

  • guitaraholic

    haha already been working on getting cream to work on our builds :) Have pulled the latest from git and it now builds but seg faults on first run :) I'll be working on this over the next week or 2 and post some teasers once we get it working :D

  • Eumel

    sounds nice. recently i looked in the ubuntuforum on cream and found a thread at http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/cream-desktop… where the dev's also working on segfaults. but i'm sure you will manage that ;)

  • guitaraholic

    yea we met the developers first hand @ linuxtag and it looks pretty promising that it will be in the default iso :)

    They are very interested in working with us on implementing cream so we should be able to sort the segfaults – probably due to some python package version or similar :)

  • Zilito

    Ciao,

    Linux sounds like a magic word.
    And I’m trying to enter into this world.
    Thank you! to keep this burning flame.

    Maurizio.

  • uniteee

    Is Cream like Gnome Shell or different ??

  • guitaraholic

    The cream project can be found here : http://cream-project.org

    they are an enthusiastic and ambitious group (not so unlike ourselves) who's aim is to build ontop on gnome into their own DE. The project were currently looking at is a widget system called melange.

    Its pretty quick, stable and all widgets can be coded in web technologies like html5 so its easy to write your own! Were working on getting a deb package built soon and getting it into the beta repo's ready for the aurora beta

  • http://twitter.com/bryantthesmith Bryant Smith

    Love the new look and name. The site is really a step up from the eeebuntu days. One suggestion I would make is to perhaps shrink the header on the main pages. On a netbook (which I believe many of your users have) the large header image pushes much of the navigation off the bottom of the screen. Other than that, everything looks great!

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