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Elive Beta: Enlightenment Sans Commitment

Posted by timothy on from the giant-candy-pacifier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Elive, the ultra-slick Debian based Enlightenment (16.7 and 17) liveCD project has released version 0.1 for download. See the package and features list for more information. A screenshot tour is also available."

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  1. Re:E-Pants? by Narchie+Troll · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. biff has been called biff since time immemorial. Every OS has illogical or obtuse application names -- hell, what's the difference between "Finder", "Chooser", and "Sherlock"?
    2. Who's "you guys?" The development team of the Linux kernel? Every Linux user? I certainly don't want to lose my choice to use the Ion window manager and the naim instant messaging client and the Mozilla browser just because of some ill-advised quest for market share.
    3. OS X has what, 4, 5 percent of the market?
    4. Let's not even get into the i-apps on OS X. How is that any better than G or K or X or E-everything?
    5. Firefox is Firefox, not Linux. The prefs are in different menu locations because of different conventions on the different platforms. Firefox already looks and feels too much like a Windows application on Linux.
    6. Many distributions have graphical interfaces for manipulating system settings. All of the prominent desktop environments have settings dialogs as well. This shouldn't and doesn't prevent me from using a distribution (Slackware) that relies on directly editing configuration files.
    7. When Windows has even the slightest amount of consistency in terms of preference windows (or, hell, file choosers), you may have a point.
    8. Actually, you still wouldn't. KDE and GNOME applications both have perfectly good reasons to maintain consistency within themselves. Fans of GNOME don't want the clutter of KDE, and fans of KDE don't want the stark minimalism of GNOME. I don't want either.
    9. Some people work on eye candy. Some don't. People work on what they want to.
    10. Again, let me reiterate: I don't give a flying fuck what the PC manufacturers take notice of. As long as Slackware works fine on my machine, I'm perfectly content. "World domination" is not a goal. There's no valid reason that Linux should be prominent over any other free (as in freedom) operating system. Choice is good.
    11. Finally: Enlightenment users are currently a minority of Linux users. You can't use a specific complaint about the former to damn the latter.