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Sun Drops Sawfish for Metacity
Cardhore writes: "According to this article, Sun's and Wipro's developers are now working on Metacity, instead of Sawfish. Metacity and Sawfish are two window managers for the GNOME desktop, and Sun has decided to use Metacity over Sawfish for GNOME 2. This decision has been based on issues such as accessibility, maintainability of the code [1], documentation, multi-head support and a general eagerness from the community to commit to Metacity in the future." Here's a brief description of Garret LeSage's experience with Metacity, which is described here as a "boring window manager for the adult in you." Anyone with Metacity screenshots, please post below :)
Could someone please detail the current status of the Enlightenment window manager?
A couple years ago, it was infinitely superior to the alternatives, but the intervening time has changed that...
From what I understand, progress on e17 had stopped altogether a few months ago?
Sun will be using multiple AMD's 64bit K8 (Opterons) in a new range of Cobalt servers instead of their sparcs.
Also they have decided to preinstall these computers with Linux reather than Solaris.
Is Sun going to become a reseller and drop its last products?
Mouse powered Chips, Open source Processors and Lego
Sun will be using multiple AMD's 64bit K8 (Opterons) in a new range of Cobalt servers instead of their sparcs.
Also they have decided to preinstall these computers with Linux reather than Solaris.
Is Sun going to become a reseller and drop its last products?
Mouse powered Chips, Open source Processors and Lego
Brother, do you have any idea how *few* SWF LDS read Slashdot? Maybe if you mention Johnny Lingo you'll get a better response... ;)
Got Rhinos?
It would really be nice if Red Hat would start
shipping some new themes. I'm getting really
bored with the defaults and Themes.org sucks
these days.
rhythmbox.
IAAL,BIANLY
That's what everything was designed to handle. I'm surprised they don't tout it as much, considering it was Rob and Hemo's pet project from a while back...
what's an lds? a mormon?
see what a bad girl you are? :}
What is your Slash Rating?
One of the aspects of a good troll is that it makes a few false statements for biters to correct. However, this one was a bit obvious...
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
Oh, and here I am assuming that's some VLIW ASM code ..
-- 2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2
Gourmet cereals? Ha! Now there's an oxymoron for ya. Fortune 500 running linux on the desktop? Metacity saved your business? Whoo boy... Whatcha been smokin? I want some.
Johnny Lingo...
So he's not crazy after all, just vain.
I don't think you grok[1] "grok[2]". Of course you'd probably be groggy because of grokking[4] too much grog[5], which is semi-grokkable[6].
[1] Ref: Jargon4.3.0: cf. "Stranger in a Strange Land"[3]: 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge.
[2] Ref: Your post (...just grokked this off...)[7]
[3] Yes, I've read the other posts.
[4] Ref: "SiaSL": To drink.
[5] Ref: Webster1913: A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.
[6] Ref: Grok[1]. Semi-grok: Understandable.
[7] You want "grep". All this could be avoided if you grabbed "dict"[8][9], and used it grep for terms liberally.
[8] DICT Protocol Client. See "man 1 dict".[9]
[9] Just don't read these sentences out loud.
HTH. HAND.