Hello all, I think this is a very exciting time for Linux on the desktop, and I would like to share some of the things that I think are important with the group. We are on the verge of the two major Linux desktops releasing the first .x release to their latest major desktop revisions. As Aaron said recently, KDE will release version 3.1 of their desktop environment very soon. The latest release is 3.1RC6 and you can check it out at http://www.kde.org/info/3.1.html The Gnome project is also very close to releasing version 2.2 of their desktop, and it looks like there are some very cool new features in development. The latest release is 2.1.5 and you can check it out at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.1/ Some other smaller desktops have also been very busy lately. My favorite window manager turned desktop shell Enlightenment has finally released some news about their development work on E17. There is no release date yet, but at least we know they are doing something :-). You can check out the latest happenings at http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/news.html The XFCE project is also hard at work at version 4 of their desktop environment. Some new screenshots have recently been released and you can check them out at http://members.home.nl/jbhuijsmans/screenshots/ and you can get more info. on the project at http://www.xfce.org/ Finally this one relates to a recent thread "Should the unix fs be hidden from desktop users?" which can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01489.html There is a project called newdocms that attempts to create a database of files rather than having the user search the filesystem. It sounds allot like what MS is proposing for the next version of Windows, but this can already be implemented in KDE, and the guy is hoping to make ports for Gnome and OpenOffice as well. What do you guys think of this? You can get more information at http://m-arriaga.net/software/newdocms/
Have a good weekend, Jesse
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