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OEone New Releases and Review

Posted by michael on from the linux-for-the-masses dept.

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."

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  1. :((( EULA with DRM... by WetCat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That OE wants to install DRManagement module
    with itself.
    No thanks. I do not want to install any DRM crap on my comoputer.
    I did NOT agree with their EULA.

  2. Open-source... GPL... better. by SimpleSphere · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yep, that's what I think... soon enough, someone will look at this, and start an open-source, GPL'd, community project to rival it. Hopefully, however, instead of separating users even more (as DEs such as GNOME and KDE have done) it will unite them... is this possible? Hmm...

  3. You'll still need to request a key, but... by lute3 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The install script's job is to checks to see if your OS is one of the RedHat or Mandrake distros just added to the support list. Once it finishes this validation, it downloads the installer binary. Here its just in case you'd like to try it out on a distro like Gentoo or SuSE.

    installer-rpm-glibc2.2-i386.gz

  4. slashdot for sale? by tps12 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is the second story on a boring, non-Free program we've seen today. If this product were under the GPL and available on Sourceforge, then we wouldn't be seeing a story about it here. The same goes for Trolltech's Ogg Vorbis CD ripper.

    Is it that someone trying to make money writing Linux software is newsworthy? Or is Slashdot getting a piece of the action?

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  5. Re:OEone install experiences by GusherJizmac · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Overall though its not a bad choice. The lack of a window manager is a big win for newbs. Instead there is a task bar and you swap back and forth between tasks. If the task isn't running it starts it up automatically. This is a good idea. I wonder when the condesending bone heads working on windowmaker will figure this out. :P

    This is a really important point, and this is the behavior of the oft-maligned OS X Dock. You see application icons in the Dock. You click them to use the application. If the application isn't running, it starts. It almost totally abstracts the user from the concept of which applications are running (much like a Palm interace). I would love to have this on Linux. Seperating out launchers from running tasks just makes no sense to me. You can see the major desktops starting to realize this. Both Windows and Gnome (maybe KDE?) are going towards rolling windows from the same task into the same taskbar entry. Now, if we can just make those entries the launchers (like it sounds like OEOne and OS X do), that would be great!

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