Enlightenment goes 1.0

ChrisJones writes "According to rasterman, Enlightenment has hit 1.0! Tarball is available here. Happy building!" And you guys all thought it would never happen! BGDM!

Never...

[Ubergrendle]

...install a version 1.0 of a product release. Wait for the patches, or you might corrupt your Nirvana installs...

Not even trying

[barzok]

I remember in years past, you had to really look closely at a /. story on April 1 because the fake stories were so well-woven. This year, they aren't even trying and even worse, they're posting dupes!

Re:Never...

[TopShelf]

Exactly - even if this weren't a joke, what an inauspicious launch date!

Re:Once again, a joke....

[Tet]

I'd be surprised if Enlightenment ever hits .20.

This is something that pisses me off about many free software projects these days -- artificially low version numbers. It always used to be the case that 1.0 was the first public release of something. You'd reserve 0.x for a limited beta program, typically only lasting a couple of months at most to shake out any major bugs before release. But nowadays, it seems like the vast majority of free software is pre-1.0. You can't reasonably claim that Enlightenment is still beta. It's used by thousands of people around the world, and was at 1.0 level many years ago. I.e., the first public release of the code has long been and gone. I blame Linus -- Linux spent too long at 0.99.x, when it was actually quite usable long before then. But it set a bad precedent.