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."

Comments

This barely qualifies as a review

[Kris Magnusson]

It's more like a long blurb. Where's the beef?

............. kris

My Review

[daemonc]

It's new and, uh, stuff.

And new stuff is cool!

Think I could make headlines on Slashdot?

Time to outsource Slashdot editor jobs to India

[Peter Cooper]

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.)

Best Review ever

[MosesJones]

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.

Bruha = Lewt = Karma-Whore

[HardcoreGamer]

Let me rewrite the intro to more accurately reflect what this is about.

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.''

Review summary!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Extra Software

[Miguel de Icaza]

I stronly suspect Ximian marketing pay /. to post articles about XD2, mono, etc

the /. 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")

right now Ximian PR persons are composing angry emails to cmdr'taco, demanding a refund.

DISCLAIMER: this is only a conjecture