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Sorry for the wait, we’re back!

December 9th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

The development team can only apologise for the lack of progress recently. We are limited in number and have been involved in, dare I say, Paying projects…

Paul (guitaraholic) has been extremely busy with his new job as a middleware expert for a large, well know media company that rhymes with urgin’.

I’ve been tied up on paying company business and swamped with so much code that I could vomit at the sight of another “if” statement.

Excuses Done

It’s back to the rock and to chip away at the encrustation that has formed on the installer code, kernel mods et al. Pick axe in hand (pneumatic drill required) we’re at it again.

Still based on debian, SID, SystemD and still with our own installer, going with a themed gnome-shell.

The installer code is in subversion, if you fancy lending a vala hand then get in touch, the more the merrier and the faster it’ll be done.

The repo’s are down after a server crash. They were outdated so they’ll be offline for a while whilst we populate with newer packages ready for the ISO release early next year (2012! Before someone coughs ).

Further updates soon, and please, get in touch if you want to help out, package maintainers, vala coders, plymouth designers, shell themers… we do need your help. Paul and I can’t possibly deliver everything we plan to get in the release without YOUR help. Please get in touch and get involved. We had so many ideas and so little resource to deliver.

Thanks,

Steve.

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  • http://twitter.com/lnx4tw Lnx4tw

    Woohoo!!!

  • Savarese

    I’ve been a user of EEEbuntu since 2009, and when the old repositories “died”, I became forced to turn into a “distro castaway”, hopping between distros with unhappy results.

    I was almost convinced that AuroraOS was a dead project, and now you appear with this great news, so all I can say is “Glad to know that you’re back, guys!”.

    Feel free to contact me if you need any help with spanish translation issues or the like.

  • kuro_kid

    hope i can help but, i don’t know how to do those thing

  • Martin

    Glad to see you are back, but I only saw this by accident.  I had given the project up for dead as there has not been a single update to the site in months.  I completely understand that you have other commitments (and I’m not the one spending their spare time developing such a great product) but it would have been very helpful to have quick, one line, post every month or so explaining the situation.  I’m sure there are many Aurora fans out there that presume the project is dead.

    This is water under the bridge now but could you promise that if there is another time when you have to suspend the project because of work commitments that you post a message so people will check back occasionally?

    Good luck!