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 I could vomit at the site 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 They were outdated so they'll be offline for a while whilst we populate with newer packages ready for the ISO release early next year (2012!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.

Excellent news!

Hello again!

2012 could mean anywhere from January to December. Can you please be a bit more specific?
Happy New Year.
Edit: O.k., I just noticed the word EARLY next year. Hopefully, this means sometime before April.

Hi,

I'm very glad to hear that you're picking up Aurora again! I was on the point of trying to cram another distro onto my 701 4GB but not now (not after a disastrous attempt to dist-upgrade to squeeze ... ). Eagerly awaiting updated packages

Thank you all so much for your efforts with Aurora, it really is a lifesaver for Eee owners

Rich

So glad to hear!

Is there any chance of the old repos being put back up in the mean time? or do we just have to be patient until you release the new build?

I'd like to get Aurora running, but I don't want to be stuck without being able to udpate/install anything

I love this project! Keep it up!

PS I'll help in any way I can.. I'm beginning to read up on Vala

I have waited over a year. I like eeebuntu but I will not wait another.
Please be honest about your progress - people rely on it.

I waited one year and that was one year too long. I now have Puppy installed and I love it. So long Aurora hello Puppy!

Hello to everyone!
It is still live?
My laptop says:
E: Can not receive http://repos.eeebuntu.org/pool/main/XXXXXXXXXX.deb: 404 Not Found

I already think to install clear ubuntu...
Any news about it?

Knock, Knock. Is anyone here?

Users are ready for the Eeevolution..........

I've had EB4 on my wife's laptop for what seems like over two years now. I check back every so often and this is the closest I've seen to any hint of a 5-beta appearing. Is there any source of more recent material than I've got, the old EB4. She doesn't even know she's on a Beta distribution and I'm going to keep it that way but I'd love to give here a face lift.

Hmmm..."We're back!" posted on 09 Dec 2011 and two other Dev Team postings within 24 hours...then? silence? No Dev Team postings!

It appears that the proclamation may have been somewhat premature, eh?

Looking forward to some evidence of positive activity!!!

* * * Still running EB3, here. * * *

G8r.Ray

I still moderate the board.

That's nice. But what about development? Why continue the board if the Aurora project is dead?

Years ago I though about installing Eeebuntu 3.0 on my eeePC 901 (now still Ubuntu 8.10 with some modifications) but I decided to wait for Aurora to come out of beta. We have been hearing apologies with half year intervals, bur nothing tangible for.... how long? In the Aurora Team Blog there were some pictures of the Exogenesis installer in January 2011 (real or mockups?) and a list of required libs and apps in January 2012, and that's about it.

So what is happening? Is anything happening?

The Exogenesis installer is all real. I saw it with my own eyes during production. I've seen Steve and Paul posting on facebook. They're both quite busy at work.

In the meantime, if you'd like a system upgrade, I recommend Fewt's Fuduntu project at fuduntu.org . Keep in touch with Aurora. I wouldn't call it dead yet.