Bringing modern features and Material Design to Linux

[z3ro]

Papyros is a modern operating system which adheres to Google's Material Design guidelines and is based on Arch Linux.

http://papyros.io/

[khofo]

First of, as a matter of taste and opinion I do not like the interface, but you said it's based of arch which is obviously wrong if you look at the Terminal, where there is an "apt-get" command which is on Debian, (Arch uses pacman). Also on the first line you can see "Rebecca" which is a mint version.


So this basically mint/ubuntu with a custom google theme and some tools.


On a positive note, I like how the linux community is evolving to include a lot of people from different backgrounds and not only developers and Computer Enthusiast. imo the future is in opensource

[z3ro]

Woah. You're right. I didn't notice these. My bad.
I found the website and thought I'd be fun to have my desktop feel like my Android and shared it here.

Sorry.

[0E 800]

You can see in the pictures that the lowest image is not the same as the ones above it (hint: taskbar)

I checked out the website and it clearly says its built ontop of arch.

Kind of vague, and no release yet.

You can however install their packages on your own arch system:

The operating system, desktop shell, and material design framework is still in active development and is in a pre-alpha state. We don’t have any installer ISOs or stable repositories. However, we now have an initial package repository for users to try out the Papyros shell on ArchLinux! These packages are automatically built each night by a Buildbot instance running on the Papyros servers.

DISCLAIMER: Keep in mind this is very much in a pre-alpha state, and many things are not implemented yet. The packages themselves should work though, as I’ve tested them locally. No guarantees though!

First, add the following lines to your /etc/pacman.conf file, above the default repositories:

[papyros]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://dash.papyros.io/repos/$repo/$arch
Then, run

pacman -Syu
pacman -S papyros-shell
You can test the shell by running it in a new window on top of your desktop:

papyros-session
We’re getting closer to our first release, but there are still some missing features and many bugs. Stay tuned for more updates!

Happy testing!

^ Proves it is indeed arch.

[gray-fox]

From reading  their site I understood it in the way that OS  itself is being based on Arch, but they are trying to make their apps work in any distro. So I guess those are papyros apps test running on Mint  or something and not the Papyros OS itself if I got this right.

From their site:

We’d like to use this technology to build modern application bundling support for Papyros, allowing you to install Papyros apps on any distro or any bundled app on Papyros, even if it was built and packaged on another distro.

Edit: Just by looking UI or the whole concept really it's not something that I would be intrested in. But if in some day Linux takes over Windows position in average PC users homes I wouldn't  be suprised if it's going to be something like this that does it.

But intresting share anyways @z3ro

[khofo]

From reading  their site I understood it in the way that OS  itself is being based on Arch, but they are trying to make their apps work in any distro. So I guess those are papyros apps test running on Mint  or something and not the Papyros OS itself if I got this right.

From their site:


Edit: Just by looking UI or the whole concept really it's not something that I would be intrested in. But if in some day Linux takes over Windows position in average PC users homes I wouldn't  be suprised if it's going to be something like this that does it.

But intresting share anyways @z3ro

I second gray-fox on that, but let's cut out the which os is based from crap, since as gray-fox said computing is taking a really great turn towards linux as a mainstream distros, and distros like ubuntu, Papyros or Mint are really good for people who want a basic computer and do basic everyday tasks without paying 150+ $ for Windows which is being paid with your info