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Ximian Desktop 2 Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-this-the-future dept.

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."

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  1. Pants review by danrees · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?!

  2. What? by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.

    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.

  3. Does it still break your system? by jeramybsmith · · Score: 5, Insightful
    My biggest problem with Ximian is that it breaks your distro's dependency tree. Sometiems they will use split packages wheres your vendor doesn't. Installing ximian means you break your upgrade path, now why would anyone want that?

    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
  4. Re:Hrmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.