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Enlightenment goes 1.0
ChrisJones writes "According to rasterman, Enlightenment has hit 1.0!
Tarball is available here. Happy building!" And you guys all thought it would never happen! BGDM!
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Enlightenment 1.0... puh-lease
either its april fools or hell froze over
Is Duke Nukem Forever next? ;-)
Acquiescence leads to obliteration
...Or people will feel my wrath for tempting me with the thing I want MOST!
Machine9dotNet
...install a version 1.0 of a product release. Wait for the patches, or you might corrupt your Nirvana installs...
John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
I was so excited. Then I looked at the date. BAH!
I have to change my underpants now.
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Take comfort in your ignorance.
Grandmaster Plague
Yeah, enlightenment is still at its .16 release.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
I've been running it under the Berlin windowing system on my GNU/Hurd box for 12 hours, and it r0x...
Its really helped my productivity. I've got an amazing amount of work done today.
[OK, I admit it. That last bit was clearly an April Fool]
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
I remember in years past, you had to really look closely at a /. story on April 1 because the fake stories were so well-woven. This year, they aren't even trying and even worse, they're posting dupes!
Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold.
Daikatana 2 is on its way.
Microsoft releases security patches for security patches found during internal security testing.
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Is it just me or were the April 1 jokes better in previous years...
because it conincides with my dyslexic friends celebration of "Polar Foils" day. Or was it "Flora Spoil" day? "Frail Loops"? "Sailor Flop"? "Pail Floors"?
Error: Erection reset by beer.
However, the link to the tarball being a 404 is a dead giveaway :(
with team fortress 2
Everyone wish me a happy birthday
No.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Everybody could just save the time and instead of reading Slashdot today, just go to this page and read 10 or so "articles". Works the same...
Marcelo Vanzin
Wow! I just grabbed the tarball, and did the autoconf, configure, make jig. I must say I am impressed! First of all, the size of the installation is pretty small compared to all other environments. AND... this really beats the pants off of KDE and GNOME. As usual, there is lots of innovation. All the window widgets can be moved around to suit the needs and tastes of the user rather than forcing them to use one style. They've added the ability to incorporate scents into the themes! (I am using the Evergreen scent right now... Ahhh fresh!) But what's impressed me the most so far is the predictive nature of the interface. There is some mechanism that Raster has worked out to detect the readiness potential in your brain before you actually click on something. This results in menus and objects performing operations just before you actually decide to utilize those menus and objects. Pretty slick! So far it's been dead on every time. as I think, Mozilla is loading up web pages and links in extra tabs behind this page. Kind of interesting to find out what you are going to look at just a fraction of a second before you realize it. The file manager is JUST INCREDIBLE!!! No more of that silly hierarchical jazz... Now we finally have a file manager that works just like we think. For any document you create, the files are offloaded to paper hardcopies. This results in a more tangible object with a limited, but pretty reliable user interface. To re-open and edit the file, You just slam it on the flatbed and E 1.0 will automatically scan and OCR it back into the application of your choice! How cool is that? the best thing is that you no longer have to worry about magnetic media failure with regard to your docs. Ahhh.. I think I'm in love! Enlightenment 1.0, you light up my life!
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
It looks like the server is slashdotted, because All I get is a 404 error.
Fortunately some friends of E have posted a mirror. here
dick.
Machine9dotNet
This is something that pisses me off about many free software projects these days -- artificially low version numbers. It always used to be the case that 1.0 was the first public release of something. You'd reserve 0.x for a limited beta program, typically only lasting a couple of months at most to shake out any major bugs before release. But nowadays, it seems like the vast majority of free software is pre-1.0. You can't reasonably claim that Enlightenment is still beta. It's used by thousands of people around the world, and was at 1.0 level many years ago. I.e., the first public release of the code has long been and gone. I blame Linus -- Linux spent too long at 0.99.x, when it was actually quite usable long before then. But it set a bad precedent.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
I'll be happily browing the web with Phallus 0.7 on my Enlightenment 1.0 setup any minute now!
I think geeks need to improve in this department, somewhat. The Spaghetti Harvest was a work of sheer creative brilliance, despite the simplicity of the sketch and the simplicity of the props.
These are the kinds of pranks that work well, and are remembered. So simple, it's "got to be true", without assuming that the audience is as simple as the prank.
I'll give this year's attempts a 3/5 for effort, 4/5 for volume, and 2/5 for the "got to be true" factor. Hey, that's not a bad score, but it does show that this is an area that needs practice.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
According to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, "Ricky and I go back a long way. I have always respected his outlook on software intellectual property rights. It turns out he was right all along; companies don't need to make money."
Richard Stallman, head of the GNU organization, the creator of the Hurd, said "GNU is very pleased to be working with our brethren Microsoft on this venture. GNU and the FSF have always had great respect for Microsoft and Bill Gates, and we believe that the combination of their Office suite and the rock-solid (and complete) Hurd kernel will allow the end user to experience a vastly superior Windows."
Asked whether a name change may be on the horizon for the Windows line, Bill Gates thought for a second and replied: "Yes. Yes, I think there might. How does Gnudows sound?"
Microsoft shareholders could not be reached for comment.
Anybody else having problems with ./configure?
/usr/bin/install -c ... missing
checking for a BSD-compatible install...
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for kernel32.dll
ERROR: kernel32.dll not found, cannot install E1.0
(Score:-1, Wrong)