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A Look At the Lightweight Equinox Desktop Environment
Linux.com (who share Slashdot's corporate overlords) takes a look at the Equinox Desktop Environment and why, even though it is extremely lightweight, it may still lack the ability for widespread appeal. "the Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) is the fastest desktop environment I know of -- but its lack of standards support and a few missing features may be troubling to some users. [...] EDE feels as light as a window manager but also offers the features mentioned above. The speed advantage of EDE most likely lies in its foundation, a modified version of the Fast Light ToolKit GUI library. EDE started almost instantly on the 500MHz machine I tested it on, whereas the other environments needed at least a few seconds. EDE provides a coherent and simple interface that requires little effort to learn."
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The ASCIIpr0n starts to get old after a while though
Frankly, I think that was one of the happiest times I've had on a computer in a long while. So why did you stop?
(Perhaps you were fed up missing out on images?)
someone sent him a funny youtube link
no, it was the summer before I left for college. I was working at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator facility as an intern in Instrumentation and Control of the Free Electron Laser. After spending all day staring at high-resolution monitors counting pixels because I was working on spotsize detection, the last thing I needed was bright lights and tiny print when I came home.
When I went to school, I had to use X because I had to program in Java and do stupid Swing things.
About half way into my first semester my girlfriend ditched me after 5 years and I had sort of a break down and ended up switching to the English department, where being a sad, whiny little bitch gets you bonus points.
Then all I did was write papers. I never learned LaTeX, and even if I knew it, I'd have been too lazy to use it, so it was StarOffice and then OpenOffice.org - again, under X.
I'm going back to get another degree in engineering though, so I'm getting out of "lazy mode."
its not so much the images -- w3m can display them in frame buffer.
After 3 months of ASCII porn, he started to get excited while reading books.
It tried but was snubbed by the Exherbo developers. True story:
EDT - Exherbo Dev Team, EDE - Equinox Desktop Environment
EDT: Exherbo is one bad ass muthafucking distro! Seriously!
EDE: Cool! I wan to run on Exherbo.
EDT: No, you don't.
EDE: No really, I do.
EDT: OK. But we will have to break you since our distro is so badass that it does everything badly.
EDE: eeep
7) Confusing the idiot who comes to install your Cable Modem.
Me to Confused Techie: "What are you looking for?".
Techie: "My Network Places".
Me: "Arf!".
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
It turns out he really was reading Playboy for the articles.
"Talking "we need something lighter than WindowMaker" here, of course ;)"
What, like Open Look with a decent file manager? I've been fond of that since forever ago - since 486 and 8 megs ago. Can anyone get more lightweight than that?
Gimme back my oval buttons, bitch.
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BMO
Should this be marked, "Funny" or "Informative"? ;)
Bark less. Wag more.
If someone could please tell me wtf was so funny about that, I'd be much obliged. None of it seemed particularly funny to me while living it.
They want their GUI interface back.
There have been so many great UI innovations in the last decade, this seems pretty niche to me...
Innovations like... wobbly windows! Boo-ya!
Sarcastic? Me?
Does laptop refer to the laptop metaphor?