Lynnaea writes "An interview from Linuxpower gets Mandrake and Rasterman together to talk about the future development of E, what it's like to work at VA, and whether/how E will play with KDE and GNOME. " Also nice to see what the boys are up to. Not eating vegemite is a possible answer.
Re:What bugs me about E...
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Definitely something that I would want, also. you'll notice from some of the screenshots that raster and myself put up that those sorts of tools are coming, even though slowly. A lot of the user-end customization can already be done through easy-to-use menus. You will be seeing more of this. -- Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net) Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
Interesting to see that Raster and Mandrake are looking to possibly make E into a full desktop, a la GNOME and KDE. But I have to wonder if their efforts would be mislaid in that case...wouldn't it be better for them to properly contribute their knowledge and insight directly to GNOME or KDE, or better, both?
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Re:E is a pig; now we know why.
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Actually, I run E on much lower machines than you do, and it runs fine. The point behind these big machines isn't so that we can actually run stuff. The point is so that we can compile and test and debug at a faster rate. I don't know about you, but compiling two megs of source code takes a while on all my other machines. I have a fast SMP machine because I want to be able to compile and test E while I'm still thinking about the code I just wrote. Keeps stuff fresh in my mind. I run E on everything from a low-end UDB (those multia alphas (ick)) to a p133, to a 486, to a couple of 66 mhz ppcs, to the machine you read about in the interview, which is my primary machine. Making E work efficiently in as little resources as possible is a VERY real issue for us. Please don't assume that it isn't. -- Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net) Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
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Definitely something that I would want, also. you'll notice from some of the screenshots that raster and myself put up that those sorts of tools are coming, even though slowly. A lot of the user-end customization can already be done through easy-to-use menus. You will be seeing more of this.
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Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
Geoff "Mandrake" Harrison
Some Random UI Hacker
For the secret message, check out the boldface letters. :-)
cya
Ethelred
Everyone wants to be Ethelred. Even I want to be Ethelred.
Actually, I run E on much lower machines than you do, and it runs fine. The point behind these big machines isn't so that we can actually run stuff. The point is so that we can compile and test and debug at a faster rate. I don't know about you, but compiling two megs of source code takes a while on all my other machines. I have a fast SMP machine because I want to be able to compile and test E while I'm still thinking about the code I just wrote. Keeps stuff fresh in my mind. I run E on everything from a low-end UDB (those multia alphas (ick)) to a p133, to a 486, to a couple of 66 mhz ppcs, to the machine you read about in the interview, which is my primary machine. Making E work efficiently in as little resources as possible is a VERY real issue for us. Please don't assume that it isn't.
--
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
Geoff "Mandrake" Harrison
Some Random UI Hacker