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OEone HomeBase Desktop

Posted by michael on from the training-wheels dept.

Mike Potter writes "OEone has released its OEone HomeBase product as an open source project, and a free download. HomeBase is a complete operating environment that runs on top of Mozilla, with the base operating system being RedHat Linux 7.1 or 7.2. There's a review of it over at Newsforge. Some of the OEone software has already been released as open source to other projects. For instance, OEone's calendar was the basis of the Mozilla Calendar project."

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  1. Does this seem familiar? by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Doesn't this seem to be something very similar to the Ximian desktop? I am still weeding pieces of that shitball out of my system. I run RedHat and after installing it, I couldn't upgrade from 7.1 to
    7.2 for my life. I had to go in and hand delete all the Ximian packages, and even after doing that, it still left little turds all over my system that conflicted with later version releases to this day.
    I will NEVER install a third-party desktop again!!

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  2. Re:Hang on here... by Quixadhal · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So, what you're saying is that when I run an application inside this framework, it has to be rendered by the "homebase" rendering system, which invokes the mozilla renderer, which in turn will call on my gnome/kde window manager's rendering engine (for widgets), which has to invoke X11's rendering system to manipulate the background structures of the generic X11 system, which then has to be rendered into the specific display actions for the display it's being routed to, which has to go through the device drivers to be turned into actual commands for my accelerated video card to then render into pixels that my monitor can display?

    And exactly how is this going to make anything faster, better, or simpler?