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E17 Available From CVS
Lisandro writes "As stated by Rasterman on his site, Enlightenment 0.17's window manager is now available on CVS, which means you can build e17 completely from it, as it is, and give it a try. Of course, it's still work in progress, and lacking in several areas, but it is usable, and looks as gorgeous as ever. Also, in related news, the XFCE team, one of the best 'light' desktop environments for *NIX, has released the first release candidate for XFCE 4.2, with a lot of long due improvements." About e17, Rasterman's note says "It's limited in its support for ICCCM, no NETWM support and it has no iconification, virtual desktops, shading, keybindings or button bindings, but it does WORK (just). it's also fast and beautiful."
"It's limited in its support for ICCCM, no NETWM support and it has no iconification, virtual desktops, shading, keybindings or button bindings, but it does WORK (just). it's also fast and beautiful."
If you don't mind, I'll wait until it actually does something other than "work" before I get too excited.
I've never got why people call enlightenment beautiful. Every time someone has described an enlightenment screenshot as beautiful I've thought it was hideous.
It's like enlightenment's attitude is "Hey, let's put pixmaps everywhere!".
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No, it doesn't.
Windows will NEVER be as fast as a properly configured Linux machine, nor will it ever be as stable.
As for it not being ready for general distribution in 15 years, HA! It will never be ready for the general public, they're morons. I don't think I need to prove this one considering the content of your post.