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Aurora Weekly Update : Week 12

September 20th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

Hi All,

A quiet month it seems I know but I can assure you a lot has been going on with Aurora. September is a busy month for most with Kids heading back to school, workload increasing in work, going back to uni / college, ramped up projects before christmas etc and the Team have had the same! We have all been a little busy but still made sure we are working away on Aurora as much as we can!

Development Work

We have been progressing in a number of areas and trying to address afew niggles in certain parts of the beta in preperation for a Aurora beta 1 ( 2nd beta). This will be including the installer.

Exogenesis Installer

The original plan was to give everyone a glimse afew weeks ago via some mockups and screenshots. Most of the work on exogenesis is now the backend configuration and installation. We decided it would be appropriate to complete the visual aspects of the installer before we posted mockups which were not 100% accurate. MonkeyAbout is currently working on some excellent slides for the installation time and there coming along well!

SystemD

Is now running on 3 test machines – boot times haven’t seen a massive improvement : YET. This is due to SystemD still using the exisiting bash scripts to run applications – we will be starting to convert a few core parts of the system over to system D ( including the network-manager script :P ) which will make a significant impact.

HAL and Banshee!

hal is now officially dead – libhal is still linked as a dependancy for gnome but should start to see further deprication from 2.32 in october. Banshee 1.8 is out this month and comes with some great support for ipods, iphones and android devices which were really looking forward to bundling! Banshee is now using the GIO and Udev backend so it ALOT snappier imho.

Aurora Kernels

We have almost polished off our kernels and any day now will be adding these to the eb4 b1 repo’s for public testing. They are also being moved into a git repo for community contributions and involement in further development. More news in a blog post very soon :)

And Finally

Thanks for bearing with us – its been a busy month but we are still on course with development and will be working towards a second beta ( could be RC depending on bugs / issues). so keep tuned! We will try and keep the blog updated as much as possible!

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  • Yenlowang

    ah yes – my two EEEPc's are waiting for a major update.
    EB3 still works fine – but it's about time for something new!
    And the beta in my virtual maschine look good – but not good enought to install it on my netbooks!
    So please hurry up and finish Aurora!

    Thanks a lot!

  • labatts

    Keep up the good work, guys. =)

  • Elektro

    My asus 1008p is waiting to destroy his win7 and get Aurora.

    Good job. :)

  • earboxer

    So is it safe to say beta 1.0 will be out next month?

  • guitaraholic

    possibly – we dont want to set a date as it will be ready when its ready so to speak :)
    The installer is progressing very nicely and is the main component we are waiting for. We already have some test systems booting on systemd with sysvinit and upstart totally removed :)

  • guitaraholic

    Yea EB4 b1 was a very early snapshop to allow users to help us test as we built aurora :)

    Its alot more polished now and as soon as its ready we will have it online for your enjoyment!

  • guest

    I'm not sure that was such a good idea to launch the aurora project site waaaay before there is anything to show for.

    Don't get me wrong. I think you guys are doing a great job! But showcasing what the new os is going to be like is one thing. Actually showing the os is something completely different.

    I think it would've been wise to go on under the old project name and launch the aurora brand with the first rc.

    Becuse to the casual observer it looks like nothing is happening – which couldn't be farther from the truth, I know. But, again, the casual observer can't see what's going on.

  • guitaraholic

    Fair point and that was the original idea : the reasons we decided on launching the name earlier was to attact develop interest and help us link with other exisiting projects to work together.

    Without the increased interest and new information on aurora available we wouldn't have gained the extra developers we currently helped :P

    Boths sides of the coin merited different outcomes :)

  • Drpbl

    This is almost becoming a religious observance for me…checking the Aurora site for a release date…

  • TRiPgod

    It's more like how Blizzard had their Starcraft2 Beta. Lots of core changes have been made during the beta, and the final version will be close to the status of the last week of the Beta.

  • Aimede

    Hoping that sound troubles (flash sound or banshee in one session, not permitting switches between apps) and hibernation issues will disappear soon :)

    Keep up the good work

  • Jean-Marc Petit

    Hello,

    I've been trying EB4-b1 on my EeePC, and noted that it is more power hungry than EasyPeasy 1.1 I'm currently running on my computer. In a simple test, I was running the system without wifi and with a USB key. When EasyPeasy 1.1 was using ~6.8 watts, EB4-b1 was using 8.3-8.4 watts. I understand this is related to the use of the newer kernel (2.6.32) which has a known bug with the load balancing scheduler which tends to wake up the system constantly. Since Aurora OS aims at being the perfect OS for Netbooks and laptop, it would be better to stick to an older kernel that allows for lower power consumption. Any plan in such a direction ?

    Keep up the good work,

    Jean-Marc Petit

  • Billlie Walsh

    I've used Eeebuntu from the very beginning on my Eee with some very good results. That makes me anxious for the release of Aurora. BUT, I'm beginning to wonder. Will there ever be an Aurora release. I'm sure someone is doing something but there is no “news” coming out of the group to let us know they are still alive. Maybe someone in the know should take a few minutes and post something to let us all know there is still life in the project. Preferably more often than once a month (+). Even a “we've hit a snag” post would be better than nothing at all.

  • shade82000

    I had Eeebuntu 3 on my old Asus then I read sometime at the beginning of this year that 4 was being released, but I'm bored of waiting now . . .

  • Agent241

    Same with my EeePC Seashell. I have Kubuntu and would like to dual-boot, but Win 7 starter is NOT an acceptable dual-boot.

  • B_Jimmy_Smits

    I have been very pleased with the EB4b1 release, but it is very beta. Since new developments have slowed quite a bit I've been testing all sorts of Linux distros on my Netbook. Even though it is very beta, I find that it suites me just as good as some 1.0 releases. Recently I've tried Jolicloud 1.0 (too restrictive and too Ubuntu), Linux Mint Debian Edition (Poor performance–very sluggish compared to EB4b1) and very briefly gave Android and Meego a try (Both too restrictive–I need a real OS). Keep up the good work guys. I can't wait for the next release.
    -B_Jimmy_Smits aka bryantthesmith