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Late yesterday Anirudh Acharya, aka infra_red_dude, started a new support thread for the Mac4Lin Transformation Pack on the Ubuntu Forums. The old thread was moved to the archive section of the forums some time back and a couple weeks ago it had been locked so there was no good way to get assistance for it. But Anirudh, the developer of Mac4Lin, has opened a new thread so people with questions about it can go there.
In addition he has put out a Release Candidate for Mac4Lin 1.0. It’s been in the works for quite some time, and it isn’t 100% complete yet as the installation script still forces some manual installation of components and the documentation isn’t complete yet. In the announcement he says
This is the version 1.0 Release Candidate. Some components are still under development. Currently the shell script is not able to set the GDM theme, cursor theme, sounds, emerald theme. They need to be manually set.
Also components like Firefox3, Thunderbird theme, awn theme/plugins etc. are still under development. The Mozilla themes may not be stable. Hence use the non-core components of Mac4Lin at your own risk. Documentation is still in the pipeline. I decided to release the RC anyway so that patrons can start using it and update to the stable version when development is complete.
Here’s a list of the improvements and additions awaiting users in Mac4Lin version 1.0.
- New! Automated Installer in the form of a shell script
- New GDM theme
- Supports the newest version of GNOME and Xfce
- New Mozilla themes specifically built for Mac4Lin
- Adium style AWN status icons for Pidgin
- Mac style scrollbars, menus
- Other tweaks in GTK theme
- Adium sounds for Pidgin
- New usplash
The install instructions are pretty simple now.
Download the Mac4Lin_v1.0_RC.tar.gz archive to any folder. Extract the archive and run Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0_RC.sh file.
Earlier this year Mac4Lin 0.4 was selected as a recipient of the 2008 FOSS India Award and is available from UptoDown.com. Version 1.0 looks even better from the beta releases. (Yes, I’ve been a beta tester but Anirudh asked me to keep that to myself until it was released. I’m hoping the release of the RC is close enough.) You can get the RC from SourceForge, and look for a final release in the near future.
