TidOS Public Alpha release (New Arch Linux based distro)

I'm a regular lurker on the 4chan technology board (AKA /g/) and I've been following a project known as TidOS by the user "King Neckbeard". Think of it as a preconfigured/prericed Arch Linux installation for those that want a quick and dirty setup, something like Archbang with xmonad instead.
King Neckbeard wrote:
xmonad + conky + trayer + nm-applet make up the DE of sorts
applications started via dmenu (firefox has a shortcut key)
mpd, preconfigured
Just Works
POSSIBLE BUGS:
>networkmanager applet not visible, to fix press win + r and type netfix or run netfix in a console
>music not playing, to fix restart mpd and run mpc play
Screenshots:
Github:
http://github.com/TidOS/TidOS
ISO image download (i686 only, x86_64 users can compile an image themselves from the github sources):
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PJLRZ5I4
Last edited by zowki (2010-05-13 16:24:34)

jordanmthomas wrote:TidOS is dead by the way.  /g/ did not seem to care much about it so I haven't done anything to it since I made the first image.
aww.
well you are all welcome to poke your nose in at #witchlinux on irc.freenode.net , it's still alive, n welcomes everyone else's input.
there's the arch rowan witch release, a half made archiso, which is basically to be pretty much the same as where the debian rowan witch.iso left off, and then later once it's built to some reasonably satasfactory standard, a larger fuller witch called jamella is planned to feature loads of tiling window managers, xmonad of course included, as well as awesome, and others, as well as a raft of programmer tools n toys, and then later a refined sleak but complete witch after that.   so goes my plan anyways, but of course, anyone can run off n make their own witch, and are encouraged to do so.    so if u want a preconfigured arch with xmonad, once we get rowan out of the stalls, jamella will soon follow after.   (i been distracted with other interests this past month or so tho, so my contributions dropping off have slowed things, but it's still alive, i assure you.)
or....
to stop me going on about witch... tidos could be revived!  XD
and i wish you all the best with that.

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