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Posted by Hemos on Sunday June 1, 2003 @11:03PM from the extra-extra-read-all-about-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Joe Barr at LinuxWorld has a hands-on look at the new Ximian desktop and he seems to like it a lot. The story is currently running on Linuxworld.com"

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nostalgic by lingqi · 2003-06-01 23:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

it looks like windows on the bottom-part (task bar) and Mac on the top part (menu)... it must be... linux!

ahem... certainly not designed with normal people (i.e. those still operating on 800x600, like my parents only until a few monthes ago) in mind.

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Necessary? by Gothmolly · 2003-06-01 23:14 · Score: 4, Insightful

From the article, it seems that you get some games, some sexy pre-defined themes, and some non-standard app behavior (Opera, etc). How is this a meaningful review, and where is the motivation for change? What does this actually do that Gnome or KDE don't? Linux on the desktop requires a good WM and Desktop, but this doesn't seem to add anything ...

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Re:Why the emphasis on a polished desktop? by Aliencow · 2003-06-01 23:25 · Score: 4, Insightful

Can you tell me exactly what is wrong with X ? Ok, it could use a little help in the fonts department, but it runs on old machines, it runs on my P4, it runs on PDAs, it runs on mainframes, it's client/server, doesn't force you to use a particular vm...
Re:Looks deadly by dreamchaser · 2003-06-01 23:50 · Score: 4, Insightful

It's GNOME, so it won't be a low user or resources. Then again, that doesn't matter to many people who have oodles of RAM to spare for their window manager.