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New Linux Desktop Environment Built on Firefox

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the believe-it-when-it's-useful dept.

IL-CSIXTY4 writes "'Pyro is a new kind of desktop environment for Linux built on Mozilla Firefox. Its goal is to enable true integration between the Web and modern desktop computing.' This looks like an interesting marriage of the web and the desktop. In Pyro, Web apps run in windows on the desktop, right alongside desktop apps (through compositing). Features expected in a desktop environment, like task/window selection and an Expose-like function, are written in Javascript." "

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  1. slashdotted after the first comment by discord5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Already slashdotted after the first comment, so ... this is what the future web-desktop will be like huh?

    1. Re:slashdotted after the first comment by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

      Like they always say, "Those who don't learn Windows are doomed to repeat it."

      I think that's how that goes right?

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      Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
  2. Re:Haven't we done this before? by suv4x4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wasn't this done with MS in Windows 98, the Active Desktop? See how well that worked? Why would anyone want this?

    That was done in 1998. It was early Web 1.0, and people didn't dig web stuff so much. But now, it's different. There are plenty of uses for a web based desktop, and to quote their site:

    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@pyrodesktop.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    I think Microsoft is totally shaking in their boots at the thought of Pyro: just consider, a connected, integrated, web desktop. It's just like .NET 3.0 except it's much slower, much less secure and runs on JavaScript. Complete winner!