Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Shift Linux 0.6.5 Released
>
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> | Shift Linux 0.6.5 is the first public preview release of Shift Linux One. The
> | version number may be confusing, but the team is focused on a solid 1.0
> | release soon. Shift Linux comes in 3 different flavors, Gnome, Lite, and KDE.
> | All 3 are based on brand-new Ubuntu Hardy Beta 1 packages.
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>
> http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/03/24/shift-linux-065-released
>
> Build by tens of hundreds or thousands of developers, packaged by a few. Puts
> many competitors to shame.
>
And you COLA "advocates" wonder why Linux is going nowhere. Glory boys
are now releasing betas of their own branches of the real innovators
betas in an attempt to get some customer base and make support
money. Absolutely ridiculous.
Fragmented Gui, fragmented user base, fragged hope.
And people agree
**** "Another uninspiring Ubuntu derivative" ****
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| Shift Linux 0.6 Review
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| | I did not seen any reasoning or logic for creating Shift Linux. What the
| | project website describes as need is the need for gnome/KDE/fluxbox theme,
| | not an Ubuntu derivative. I tried really hard to find at least some other
| | difference but failed. Shift Linux just provides an additional theme, and as
| | a matter of fact, an ugly theme.
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| http://simplyjat.blogspot.com/2008/03/shift-linux-06-review.html
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So lets read some more what "choice" is all about:
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| Secondly, the theme is greatly disconnected. The initial splash screen
| has the original Ubuntu light brown screen. And I was never able to see
| the grub splash screen because of irrelevant errors at boot time.
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| Multimedia
| Out of box multimedia support is missing from the default installation.
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And garageware hippies making a mess of the UI again:
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| The first thing that I noticed about Shift Linux was eye-straining
| theme. I was reminded of energy saving efforts by Blacke Google; but
| even Blacke was not much irritating to eye as Shift Linux was.
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Unbelievable. Another crap distro stolen from the real innovators,
hacked and released on the unsuspecting public who might try it only to
go running back to Windows.
And you guys STILL don't get it.
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