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Samsung Sponsors the Development of Enlightenment

Posted by timothy on from the don't-forget-who-pays-for-your-mantra dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Enlightenment window manager project has shared on its website that it now has the backing of a major (top-five) electronics manufacturer that will be actively sponsoring the project and using Enlightenment on its devices. No manufacturer was named, but Phoronix has dug deeper and found out that Samsung is sponsoring Enlightenment. Phoronix provides independent confirmation along with citing a new Enlightenment program that Samsung sponsored and then released under the LGPL-3. They also have videos of some of the new work to this window manager that Samsung funded."

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  1. Seems Obvious by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Samsung is awesome, so is enlightenment.

    It's like Fluxbox in terms of resource use (and unfortunately on flashy little GUI indicators) but looks amazing!

    Kudos on this! Let's get windows management handled! It's been so many years of updates on something that should have been handled by now!

    1. Re:Seems Obvious by junglee_iitk · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Lets hope that Samsung manages to get e17 out of door in 2010.

      Wow, I was trying it out 5 years ago and it still hasn't seen a release.

  2. LGPL-3? by Kartoffel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Enlightment is BSD licensed. You can't just change it to LGPL-3.

    1. Re:LGPL-3? by yet-another-lobbyist · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think he means that the new program (=application) that Samsung created was LGPL-3 licensed (and not Enlightenment itself). Shouldn't that be possible despite Enlightenment being BSD licensed?

    2. Re:LGPL-3? by Minwee · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Samsung could, of course, hand over a fist full of dollars to the copyright holders and walk away with a copy of the code under whatever license they ask for.

      Or maybe I'm just making this up.

  3. v2.0? by MonsterTrimble · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This can only be considered a good thing - another well funded GUI to go against Gnome, KDE & XCFE. Myself I have been looking over OpenGEU for a while (even ran it for a week) and while I really like some of the features it's not ready for prime time. I partially blame the integration of GTK pieces into Enlightenment but I feel that is a necessity at this moment. If funding from Samsung can improve Enlightenment to where it has a stable, 100% native suite then only good things can happen.

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  4. I've always liked enlightenment. by QJimbo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I used it back in the days of SuSE 6.3 and really liked it then. It had the most eye candy and "slickness" at the time (1999 or so), blowing other WMs and Win98 out the water, I mean who couldn't love the semi-transparent "eTerm" windows?

    Other WMs have caught up now with the eye candy, but enlightenment is and was one of the few window managers that actually displayed innovation instead of simply tailing after windows and mac. It's nice to see it getting recognition.

  5. Re:Kill the X Boondoggle Already by Tom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Funny how this argument mostly comes from people who know virtually nothing about X. Most importantly, not the difference between the concept, the protocol and the implementation.

    And just because it's 20 years old doesn't mean it sucks. How old is TCP/IP? The mouse? The binary system?

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  6. Re:E17 is pretty stable now by Tom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The developers had released a roadmap showing that perhaps it would be ready for a Christmas release.

    Did they mention the year? Or at least the decade?

    I remember waiting for E17. That was about two years before I switched to OS X, so it must be what, five years now?

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  7. Re:Kill the X Boondoggle Already by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with PulseAudio isn't PulseAudio. The problem is that the presently known-to-be-unstable PulseAudio/ALSA/apps combo is pushed to "stable" desktop distros. It's like KDE 4.0 "stable beta" release, only it's taking longer, and people are understandingly getting more impatient.

    Some guy out there simply knows that if he has PulseAudio, his sound is crap, and if he removes it using his package manager (which could well be Ubuntu "Add/Remove Software" or something similarly easy), it starts working.