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Enlightenment DR17 On the Linux Desktop

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the zen-and-the-art-of-x dept.

StephenJoiner writes "There's a new review on Mad Penguin of the latest VectorLinux release, which includes the in-development Enlightenment DR17 desktop. As far as I know, this is the first time DR17 has appeared on a production desktop... even as a "technology preview". All I have to say is Enlightenment on VectorLinux is absolutely off the scale." Enlightenment was in Slashdot news earlier for both the involvement with Elive and their use of Epeg bits to deal with thumbnailing.

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  1. Link to actual review by winkydink · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here.

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  2. I'm torn. by keilinw · · Score: -1, Redundant

    When I was first exposed to Open Source (perhpas FREE) software I thought that the business model was flawed. Yet, here i am today using TONS of OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE.

    Enlightenment is realy cool... but its been BETA forever.

    Looking at Mac OS X I think I see where the future lies. We need Open Source but we also need the resources of private industry to move things forward. Mac OS X is UNIX done right. Enlightenment, with all of its cool features, is still in my opinion unusable. Although I have not tried it lately - perhaps it has made leaps and bounds in improvements.

    But this begs the question: what role should OSS play in today's world? What is the proper balance between free and pay? In the end, don't you get what you pay for?

  3. Re:But... by FudRucker · · Score: -1, Redundant

    in Soviet Russia Linux runs Enlightenment...

    wait...

    here too :P

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  4. Enlightenment is, was and ever shall be... by eno2001 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...the greatest desktop known to man and machine. It is what convinced me to dump Windows altogether. It is THE killer app. That is all.

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  5. Re:Got it on FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    8 years of development, version 0.17. Yep, the full release should be out by 2053.