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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. 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. 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.

  3. 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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