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Ximian Desktop 2 Reviewed
Bruha writes "Lewt over at Warcry News Network has written his review for Ximian Desktop 2 targeted at the home users that are looking for a good desktop solution. He mentions this is a good product that could be bundled with Redhat or Mandrake to provide a one stop solution for the desktop user where they dont have to install any extra software to fully surf the web. Which you do with KDE/Gnome installs of most distro's."
It's more like a long blurb. Where's the beef?
............. kris
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You've already reviewed more than that blasted review did. It didn't even _mention_ integrated OO and printing.
This is the first time I've heard of it.
Sadly, that was more informative than the review itself.
It's new and, uh, stuff.
And new stuff is cool!
Think I could make headlines on Slashdot?
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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With the recent thread on the decline in white-collar jobs.. I'm not surprised, when they post nonsense like this to some of the world's biggest sites.
I think it's time some of the editors were given the finger and let some nice Indian people give us quality links for $5 an hour. Slashdot would live on, have more money, be of a higher quality, and so on. (CmdrTaco could stay on as general manager though.)
Yeah, I learned more from reading the fortune at the bottom of this page than I got from that "review".
Normally reviews are cluttered with screenshots or useless information about how a product actually functions and is better than another product. Or even worse where they talk about limitations that a paticular product has over something else and recommend a best fit.
This review was exactly what you want, very little useful information, a claim around it being better without really explaining the short-falls of other options, and a killer feature of recognising menus, which is clearly the most important element of a suite of products that aims to present a user-focused simple desktop solution.
I applaud the Slashdot editors for doing away with reviews that leave us informed or challenged and have instead opted for reviews based just on opinions of someone only a few grades above Joe Sixpack.
This is truly a change for the better on Slashdot and I look forwards to the Windows Server 2003 review where it tells me that installing IIS6.0 was a breeze.
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This review was meant for those with a severe hangover. Short, no confusing screenshots and no coherent new feature list. If te-kill-ya shots were what your last night was about then you would be thankful for this review.
Bruha writes "Lewt [THAT'S ME!!!] over at Warcry News Network has written his [MY] review for Ximian Desktop 2 targeted at the home users that are looking for a good desktop solution. He [I] mentions this is a good product that could be bundled with Redhat or Mandrake to provide a one stop solution for the desktop user where they dont have to install any extra software to fully surf the web. Which you do with KDE/Gnome installs of most distro's. Thanks for reading my crappy so-called review, boosting my site's traffic and increasing my Karma, my pageviews and my ad revenue.''
Since many of you do not have the time to read such an elaborate, sprawling column, allow me to summarize:
"0MGz!!!1! X1m14N 1Z t3H r0X0R!!!1!"
You will note that, in summarizing, I have attempted to remain consistent with the author's breathtaking command of the English language, meticulous attention to detail and stunning grammatical prowess.
I stronly suspect Ximian marketing pay /. to post articles about XD2, mono, etc
/. editors searched long and hard and eventually found a positive (but unfortunately lame) review (DEF positive review: a review that doesn't say something along the lines of "gnome is just a dock, XD2 is an expensive dock with a better default theme")
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right now Ximian PR persons are composing angry emails to cmdr'taco, demanding a refund.
DISCLAIMER: this is only a conjecture
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Wait.. It took you three hours to write that..??