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Sun Announces It Will Ship Solaris With Eazel

Posted by timothy on from the cooties-cooties dept.

miester writes: "Sun has recently announced that it will take advantage of Eazel's Nautilus software. The article also mentions that Dell has invested in Eazel and will be shipping all Dell Linux workstations with Nautilus as well." The Nautilus previews have been slick and pretty -- you can tell that the Mac folks involved haven't lost their touch. And more hardware vendors installing a nice Open Source file manager can only be good for users.

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  1. Internet Explorer is the interface of the future? by skoda · · Score: 4

    The Nautilus previews have been slick and pretty -- you can tell that the Mac folks involved haven't lost their touch.

    I must be missing something, because all I see in the screenshots are pictures of a green-themed Internet Explorer with improved file icons being used to navigate the directory structure.

    This has been available on PCs since Win95.

    Most people don't use this mode, though, because the typical browser is a bad interface choice for system & file operations.

    I'm guessing that the Nautilus team is composed solely of ex-Apple graphic designers and doesn't include any user-interface experts.

    Maybe I'm just being cranky, but these screenshots are singularly uninspiring. I dare say if the MS folks announced this as the foundation of their next-gen GUI, they'd be laughed off the stage.
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