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OEone New Releases and Review
Mike Potter writes "After our initial launch, we received a ton of requests asking for support for RedHat 7.3 and Mandrake 8.2. OEone is happy to announce that HomeBase DESKTOP is now available as a free download for those two platforms. There's a great review of OEone DESKTOP at Linux Orbit."
The install script
lynx -source http://install.oeone.com/ |sh
is run in a terminal window as root.
Hahahaha.... NO. What bigger motivation is there for some misguided soul to go buck wild and compromise that server? People will be running remote code as root, hoping to get this shiny new software. Er, no thanks. The review doesn't mention it, but there HAS to be a better way to install it than this.
mstyne: real name, no gimmicks
It's just applications and a way to run
them. All I do anymore is install kde libs
and gnome libs, blackbox, bbconf, bbkeys,
and link to the applications I like/need/etc.
Too many people hop from one thing to another
as soon as something new is announced in the
hopes that it's going to be the next big perfect
thing instead of taking the time to actually
learn how to configure what they had.
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As I write this I think maybe only one person who has posted actually understands why something like this is not only usefull, but important.
No most geeks do not need something like this. However you have to consider the fact that, 98 percent of your computer users are not geeks. On top of that, a good chunk of those people can hardly use their computer.
Example... My grand parents where set up with a computer last year. They love their computer... but they are VERY timid with it. They are afraid to break things.
Right now they are using windows ME. Actually I think XP might have been a better choice but at the time it was not really an option.
Many of the things on their desktop, they dont know how to use. Not only that, they dont WANT to figure out what these things do. They would rather spend their time trying to remember how you go about accessing stock quotes, or reading email than learning new functionality.
What most people dont understand is the fact that things like window management is intimidateing! Why do I need to worry about what size some window is... how I make it full screen... how to get it back once I clicked some button and made it disapear!
The idea behind OEone's desktop is not actually a new one. However it is quite a good idea. (and urgh... Microsoft is in the process of developing their own version of this... they have been for a while actually.) The user should not need to know which applications do what... let alone know how to MANAGE the applications, Instead the user is presented with documents and tasks. If the user wants to browse a web page... thats all they should have to deal with. The web page should become their interface. If the user wants to make a document, their computer nees to BE a word processor.
Anyways, sorry for being a bit ranty. I did not sleep at all last night and Im quite tired =)
Luke
I hate repeating myself on Slashdot, but please check OEone's open source release page:
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http://www.oeone.com/developers/
Source code is available via anonymous CVS. OEone also has an IRC channel (#penzilla on irc.openprojects.net) and a developers mailing list:
https://mail.oeone.com/mailman/listinfo/developer
Cheers,
Vic