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Beryl User Interface for Linux Reviewed
techie writes "OSWeekly.com has published a review of Beryl, a very cool looking UI for Linux. Matt Hartley writes, "This release, in my opinion, was the most over-hyped and bug-filled to date. You will have to really hit Technorati to see more of what I'm talking about, but Feisty is as buggy as the beta I tested a short time ago. After completely tossing into the wilds of the ubber-buggy "network-manager," anything running with Edgy supported RT2500 driver shows up, but it will not connect without a special script. Those of you who are on Feisty and need help with your RT2500 cards are welcome to e-mail me for the bash script."
Anyone who has shipped a commercial software package can attest to how 80-90 percent of the work on a project is in the final few percent of completion.
These continuous borked releases just shows what a gulf there is between the quality of commercial software and open source projects. When you are getting paid to make software you don't have the luxury of shipping crap like this release. You stay late. You skip lunch. You come in on weekends and get the shit done.
You don't hang out on Slashdot posting snide +5 Insightful modded comments to people reviewing your incomplete or buggy open source project "You didn't pay for it, don't complain" "Did you file a bug?" "Works for me you clearly didnt' RTFM"...
Was this yet another attempt by a programmer to make a non-intuitive GUI overladen with features that the average user would never touch?
I have tried both the beta and the full realease and I can say for me at least there was problem after problem after problem. I would say that anytime you need to spend several hours search the forums just to be able to get your system to give you a choice to display the proper resolution, that there is no way any normal person is going to switch from windows to this. Beryl was also filled with bugs if you use NVIDIA. Hell you cant even resize windows anymore when using beryl. I would say..crap-tastic!
that reasoning sounds familiar...were you an Apple fanboy in a previous life?
In all seriousness, though...I haven't had any problems with Feisty, and Beryl, well, who cares? I mean, really? I don't think many linux geeks care about Beryl other than maybe to turn it on and say "wow, that's neat" and turn it back off.
The target audience for something like beryl doesn't know enough to use linux anyhow. These are people who are captivated by glitz and chrome. They're prisoners of Bill through and through.
Don't get me wrong; I think it's neat that it was developed. It goes to show that OSS can be as pretty as proprietary software. But other than proof of concept, it adds little value.
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This release, in my opinion, was the most over-hyped and bug-filled to date
How amazing! That makes it a perfect analogy for Lunix as a whole!
Format your drive and install Windows XP.
fuck off, nobody cares what you have to say.
Here it is in plain English:
"It really kills me to see people spend so much time to get this running when the "wow" factor wears off fairly quickly."
That is EXACTLY WHY Feisty is buggy, as I've been saying for some time now.
The distros are spending WAY too much time implementing sexy but useless eye candy to compete with Vista while allowing the rest of the distro to lag, especially wireless and laptop support which are CRITICAL for new users.
Shuttleworth (and the rest of the distro heads), WAKE YOUR ASS UP! Start spending more on testing and implementing APPS THAT WORK rather than eye candy! Leave the beta crap for in a beta repository for people who LIKE to break their systems!
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!