[GRLUG] Bodhi Linux

[Topher]

On Aug 31, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyway care to provide a small word salad
> about what e17 is?  

Enlightenment's stated purpose has always been "look awesome".  The lead developer is an artist who learned c specifically so he could make a window manager that wasn't ugly.

Back then E was considered disgustingly heavy and slow.  E16 today is the same codebase and considered crazy light and fast.  This humors me to no end.

E17 is the next version of E, and is VERY different from E16.  It's a different window manager altogether, if you've tried one you can't say you've tried both.


> 
> On the subject, is anyone actually strapped
> for speed?  i.e., what is it you do that requires
> more speed than you have?  I suppose this 
> would get in to how old the iron is one is 
> running.  Today it wold take effort to get
> less than a dual core processor, and quad
> core is common and inexpensive enough.
> 
>     -- Bob
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:15 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:54:56AM -0400, Topher wrote:
> > >On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 08:57:40AM -0400, Topher wrote:
> > >>Anyone tried this?  Ubuntu based, E17 front end, really stripped
> > >>down for speed.
> > >
> > >-1
> > >
> > >It's very unstable (at least in a VM).  e17 is not ready.  Still.  After
> > >a decade.  I used to follow its development closely (frequently
> > >recompiling to stay current).  It's a crapshoot.  It's amazing what it
> > >can do on low-end hardware (no, really; it's incredible) but it's not
> > >stable.  Bodhi is a great way to try e17, but if you like stability you
> > >will be disappointed.
> >
> > And since Debian threw e16 under the bus you can't even fix it by
> > going to e16.  Bleh.  Because it WOULD be cool with e16.
> 
> I was very surprised when Debian removed e16, since e17 is no where near
> ready to replace it.  I'm sure it had to do with a dwindling userbase
> and the lack of a maintainer.
> 
> You can always compile from source.  :-)  But you know that.
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