Hi All,

A quick update on some upcoming changes to the website infrastrucure and technology used on the Aurora Web Servers…. We are looking at merging the current forums , Main site and blog into ONE running under WordPress – this is for easier management , site intergration , and future developments I will not yet discuss

To tie into this we will be making some visual changes to the site over the coming weeks. Once the redesign is completed it will relaunch in WordPress with no visible changes ( all the work will be the in backend ) but it will allow us a much better control of future projects and additions to the site.

We will be hoping to either intergrate the existing phpBB build we use for the forums or migrate all user data into the bbPress forum solution – the reasons for this are due to authentication and our Single Sign On plans for the future – we will ensure any migration is completed with minimal risk and that we will only complete if it offers a like-for-like or better User experience to our current forum.

We will also be working on a mailing list functionality including discussions and a monthly newsletter ensuring you are kept in the loop!

With the current changes already we have been able to tigher intergrate the facebook group and twitter profile so the latest news and changes are available. We will be hoping we can engage members of the community who want to help in creating a more regular blog roll aiming at teaching new users how to use Aurora. Screencasts, Tutorials and more!

Hay A a short but sweet update just to show you things aren’t back at the beginning Read more…

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.

I promised an update this week so here it is

Where we are heading….

Aurora is not aiming to be the “best” Linux distribution , it’s not trying to re-invent the wheel, it’s not trying to do something new. Aurora is here to put the pieces together and make a great product. We have thought long and hard about what that entails and have had SERIOUS version 1.0 feature creep but we think we have finally bolted down our requirements and have the end in our sights!

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