Re: ANNOUNCE: Public Desktop Environment

1997-04-10 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm writing this from KDE which I d/l'd earlier tonight. In my opinion KDE is just another variation of Win95. It may be nice in the end for the inexperienced, ofcourse what window manager isn't simple enough once configured properly? I'll be sticking with Aft

Re: ANNOUNCE: Public Desktop Environment

1997-04-10 Thread Paul Seelig
On 9 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: > If someone build a debian package with Freedom Desktop, in my understanding, > it should go to non-free. What a mess! > I tried it out some time ago and i have to state that it's not worth the downloading effort. KDE is the way to go although QT is r

Re: ANNOUNCE: Public Desktop Environment

1997-04-10 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Looking at http://www.fsw.com/fdlite/copyright.html one can see things like: "The commercial use of this Software shall be governed by a separate License agreement. Any individual or institution wishing to make commercial use of the Software must sign a license agreement with Freedom Software."

ANNOUNCE: Public Desktop Environment

1997-04-09 Thread Edgar Galvis
You might be interested in the following announcement of a public desktop environment for Linux (and other OSes). Regards, Dan Evans Freedom Desktop Lite Announcement (1.01) We are pleased to announce the public availability of the Freedom Desktop Lite. Freedom Desktop Lite is a