Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17

In development for the better part of the last decade, the 0.17 release of the Enlightenment window manager is slated for November 5th. Leading up to this, the H has an enlightening interview with project lead Rasterman on what to expect. From the article: "Today Enlightenment offers most of what you get from GNOME and KDE, and probably the same if not a bit more than XFCE. It just doesn't try and ship a suite of apps with it. It is the desktop (Window manager, settings, file manager, application launching and management) minus the apps. ... The biggest thing E17 brings to the table is universal compositing. This means you can use a composited desktop without any GPU acceleration at all, and use it nicely. We don't rely on software fallback implementations of OpenGL. We literally have a specific software engine that is so fast that some developers spent weeks using it accidentally, not realizing they had software compositing on their setup."

Re:Very Cool...

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

So. Slashdot will die, as it began - with dev update news on the Enlightenment project. :-)

Where's my Windowmaker submission?

Re:Elightenment is nice but also terrible

[Thud457]

Then you are going to utterly LOVE Windows 8. It's built on wierd.

No, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere (/., probably) that Windows 8 was built on a old Indian burial ground.

Re:Elightenment is nice but also terrible

[jd2112]

Wrong, it was built in the pit of Hell by sadistic demons for the purpose of punishing mankind for Comcast throttling Satan's Internet connection.

Re:GNOME

[gamanimatron]

Wow. It's rare that you can actually see sarcasm dipping from a comment.