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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. 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.

  2. Re:Screenshots? by normaldotcom · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are a few screenshots available on the Maui Project site: http://www.maui-project.org/#showcase