Hey Civil, Do we know when E 0.17 will be released? Will this be included in MDK 8.1? Or at least a beta release? tdh -- T. Holmes ----------------- UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3:25pm up 5 days, 7:12, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | On Saturday 15 September 2001 19:53, Tim Holmes wrote: | Sawfish is a "light" WindowManager which can support GNOME as a desktop | manager. There are others not supplied by mandrake that can do the same, and | there is Enlightenment which can also rrun under GNOME. | | GNOME is a desktop environment designed to run with a compliant window | manager, not alone. | | Enlightenment is heavy on the eyecandy but surprisingly fast. Sawfish is | extremely fast which makes up for its lack of native features (except a nice | ability to run themes), so GNOME with Sawfish is much much faster than GNOME | with Enlightenment. As a result, many GNOME users would call E a resource | hog. | | Now we are approaching the time when E will have its own File manager, and | everything about E has been rewritten for reliability, modular organization, | code reuse and speed. The result is that we will likely have Four Desktop | environments to choose from, KDE, GNOME, Xfce and E version 0.17. | | The situation could be nicer for the user. We could have 5:-). | | Actually, I think the competition inspires innovation and I don't want to see | us (any of us) settle on one WM/DM any time soon. GNOME and KDE have | recently become both more and less friendly to newbies, doing more for them, | but offering a huge number of new options and a number of new features that | can best be characterized as "engineer's toys". Now the new E promises a | lightweight, fast approach to doing most of the same things with the added | feature of some of the greatest eye candy available on a flat screen. | | Users will tell us by their usage patterns which idea is more viable. | | Civileme | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ------------------------------------------------------------------
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