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Hawaii Desktop Stable Released, Powered By Qt 5.2 & Wayland

Posted by timothy on from the take-a-vacation dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Maui OS Project has made their first stable release of the Hawaii Desktop. Hawaii is still catching up with GNOME, Xfce, and KDE in terms of features, but it's written from scratch atop next-generation open-source technologies. In particular, Hawaii 0.2.0 is powered by the brand new Qt 5.2 tool-kit and runs natively on Wayland's Weston 1.3 compositor. Hawaii 0.2.0 carries all standard Linux desktop features but more advanced desktop functionality is planned while focusing around a Wayland design and eventually their own Green Island Compositor."

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  1. "next generation" my ass! by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Funny

    QT is last generation. Next generation is javascript using node. It never blocks! It never wastes time creating new threads! That's why it's faster.

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    1. Re:"next generation" my ass! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sadly, web monkeys really do believe this even if the parent is joking (and one really, really hopes they are joking).

    2. Re:"next generation" my ass! by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 2, Funny

      The problem is what QT isn't web scale!

    3. Re:"next generation" my ass! by Desler · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why would QuickTime need to be web scale?

  2. Waiting for it to mature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll check it out when Hawaii reaches 0.5.0, and it better have the theme song play when I log in.

  3. Re:Way behind! by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 3, Funny

    Other than network transparency, what exactly of value does X do that Wayland doesn't?

    "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

  4. Re:Network Transparency ... solved by mrchaotica · · Score: 4, Funny

    You sed:

    sed s/sed/said/

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