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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."
Is it just me, or does this review amount to little more than "Ximian Desktop reorganised my menus nicely for me". It seems hardly worth posting on Slashdot at any rate.
It doesn't even have screenshots! I thought it was accepted here that reviews without screenshots are worthless?!
You do? I never have.... ALL distros I have ever used that set up a KDE or GNOME desktop for you, have a web browser, normally Mozilla/Konqueror.
Personally I snarfed the Ximian artwork/theme and stuck with my RH9 desktop. It does everything I need, and is pretty well organised. Nonetheless, for business I would definately consider it, if only for the integrated OO and printing work.
in soviet russia, ximian reviews you!
"The meek shall inherit the earth, the rest of us shall go to the stars." Isaac Asimov
for the 99 dollars it really stands as very affordable for the home user also.
If you value 10 minutes of work for installing java and flash to $99, then it's definitely affordable.
It seems to me a trifle thing to use the same package names your vendor does and work within how things in your distro are already done.
Never overestimate the end user. -jeramy b. smith
Nice. You'd think if someone was going to hype his own review to /. he'd at least manage to use an email address that didn't identify him as the review's author.
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No, everyone's complaining because it was a badly written, uninformative and utterly useless review. Don't try to pawn it off on people just not liking what you want to hear, it's not going to work.
1) Read the definition of "review" in a dictionary. I don't think you fully grasp the meaning yet.
2) Learn to write. You know, properly. "Redcarpet really looks cool." Oh, wonderful. What looks cool about it? Guess you forgot that part..and just about everything else that entails a review.
3) Make sure you've finished one and two before you ever submit a story again, if for nothing else than respect for the other visitors.
*sigh* I hate to be the next guy bashing your review since it's gotten bashed enough by now and people already get the idea, but... all that mumbo jumbo as you put it, is by many considered to be the basis of any decent review. A review that just says "I tried it, I liked it, it has nice colors" is not a review. It's good enough to be used in a conversation with your pals, but a review consists of a little more than subjetive shallow remarks about a product. When writing a review, and especialy before posting it on such a high traffic website as slashdot, you gotta ask yourself if the world realy needs to hear your message; if this is important enough to bother tens of thousands of people with. In fact, too little people think about this before they post something on the web. You could just as well have written this in 10 seconds instead of wasting 10 minutes of your day on this by just writing: "Ximian Desktop 2: Ooh, shiny!!!"
Install windows on my workstation? You crazy? Got any idea how much I paid for the damn thing?
Wtf are you on about? How can Debian users be on their high horses? Are you talking about Debian developers?
Sorry, that should be "some Debian users". Not all Debian users are on a high horse.
I frequently hear things like "I just use apt-get, it does all the work for me" or "Apt just works" or "You should just use Debian" when I describe an rpm/RedHat install problem. Apt may be superior to anything on a RedHat system (And is much better then up2date), but Apt doesn't always "just work". Somtime it fails miserably, just like any solution on RedHat (I've tried up2date, apt-rpm, and RedCarpet). Debs can be mispackaged, just like rpms.
Not too long ago, I tried to install Gnome on a Debian Woody system via these instructions. I don't remember the details, but I had to fix at least a dozen problems by hand before apt would download and install everything automatically. Most of the problems involved an old package on the sytem preventing a new package from being installed. It didn't automatically remove the old package like I expected. Sometimes, I had to fiddle with the sources list and download alternative packages.
describe there suggests that your sources.list or something were faulty.
So how is that different then my RedHat rpm's requiring the wrong dependancy?
Look, Debian is a great distro. Apt/dpkg is a good packaging system. I'm going to install it on my second system here when I get the chance.
But apt is not without it's own problems.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."