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OEone HomeBase Desktop
LinuxPosted by michael on Tuesday August 13, @10:21AM
from the training-wheels dept.
Mike Potter writes "OEone has released its OEone HomeBase product as an open source project, and a free download. HomeBase is a complete operating environment that runs on top of Mozilla, with the base operating system being RedHat Linux 7.1 or 7.2. There's a review of it over at Newsforge. Some of the OEone software has already been released as open source to other projects. For instance, OEone's calendar was the basis of the Mozilla Calendar project."

 

 
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Hang on here... (Score:3, Insightful)
by Clay Mitchell on Tuesday August 13, @10:22AM (#4061243)
(User #43630 Info | http://www.pfd.net)
It's an OS that runs on top of a BROWSER that run on top of another OS...

Could somebody explain to me the benefits of this? Please? Because I haven't the foggiest clue... Seems like a case of going around your elbow to get to your backside, but that's just me...
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  • Re:Hang on here... by passthecrackpipe (Score:2) Tuesday August 13, @10:28AM
  • Re:Hang on here... by Jucius Maximus (Score:3) Tuesday August 13, @10:32AM
    • Re:Hang on here... (Score:4, Informative)
    by Jack Hughes on Tuesday August 13, @10:34AM (#4061347)
    (User #5351 Info)
    It isn't built on top of the browser.. it is built on some of the the same building blocks that Mozilla is built on. Perhaps the most important is XUL [mozilla.org] (XML User Interface Language).

    So rather than using KDE/QT or GTK+ or Motif or whatever it is using XUL and a load of other technologies to create the interface, widgets, look and feel and whatever.

    The intention is to create a relatively clear and simple user interface that can be used for key tasks but also lends itself to "kiosk" type applications - for example embedded systems such as set top boxes.

    They aren't necessarily trying to come up with a completely new general purpose desktop system but one which is appropriate for a, potentially, significant niche - set top boxes, internet kiosks and so on. They hope to make money by flogging the system to OEMs

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.mac clone (Score:2)
by paradesign on Tuesday August 13, @10:33AM (#4061333)
(User #561561 Info | http://vidgame0.tripod.com/)
the homebase anywhere suite appears to be a clone of the .mac/itools services, with its backup/synchronization features. itll be interesting to see if billy g picks up the idea as well.

otherwise it looks good, it looks real good, people friendly even.

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I think it's a good idea (Score:1)
by chrisseaton on Tuesday August 13, @10:34AM (#4061342)
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This is perfect for web browsing only computers such as those in libraries and schools.
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Bringing OpenSource to the masses (Score:3, Insightful)
by passthecrackpipe on Tuesday August 13, @10:34AM (#4061344)
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This actually looks like a potential OpenSource killer app. It gives most non-techie users what they need, what they want and what they will use, for a fair price. Like Lindows, but without the crappy attitude and marketing tripe. The screenshots look slick, and the stuff looks easy to use. Not something I would go all that wild over, but I can see my wife, or her parents for that matter, using this without any major hassles. Add OpenOffice.org to the mix, and you are done. Cool stuff!
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An Idea (Score:3, Funny)
by af_robot on Tuesday August 13, @10:35AM (#4061359)
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"HomeBase is a complete operating environment that runs on top of Mozilla, with the base operating system being RedHat Linux 7.1 or 7.2"

Oki Oki, how about Running it Under Wine in Internet Explorer window, which will be running VMWare plugin, inside which there will be RedHat Linux 7.2 running Mozilla and HomeBase on top of it... That will be really cool :)
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  • Re:An Idea by Elbereth (Score:2) Tuesday August 13, @11:05AM
  • Re:An Idea by JudgeFurious (Score:2) Tuesday August 13, @11:07AM
Its interesting (Score:4, Interesting)
by ACK!! (bailes_1j@_2big_3foot.com) on Tuesday August 13, @10:36AM (#4061364)
(User #10229 Info)
At least someone is trying a tactic to finally get beyond the STANDARD desktop model. Instead with this setup you have a combo concept where you have a desktop model merged into a home page model. I doubt if you can count it as revolutionary but at least they tried to push the edge a bit.

For an end user I think it might actually be better than some lame approach of merely emulating a windows desktop on top of linux the way a couple of distros seem to be going like the Lindows stuff.

What would be interesting to see is how a real life end user would react to such a setup.

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It locked up Netscape (Score:2)
by SwedishChef on Tuesday August 13, @10:41AM (#4061391)
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I'll have to wait til I get to work to see if the demo will work on Galeon. How ironic if this Linux-based environment has a demo that will only work on MSIE.
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Interesting... (Score:1)
by Hugh Kir on Tuesday August 13, @10:42AM (#4061392)
(User #162782 Info)
Well, I must say, for me, this system has little appeal: one of the main reasons I prefer Linux to Windows is that I can tell the difference between my desktop and my web browser (and I have many options for the latter, as well as at least two options for the former). On the other hand, I could see this appealing to the common user, and the idea of having the same desktop regardless of the underlying system is rather neat. That said, I think Microsoft is already moving in the same direction (IE and Windows become more intertwined with every release, and the MSN homepage is looking more and more like a desktop), which could spell trouble for these folks.

Come to think of it, weren't there rumors a while back that AOL was planning on doing something like this, using Netscape as the basis for a desktop? At any rate, it's neat to see the concept transformed into something solid, regardless of the eventual outcome. I'll probably throw this on my machine at home, just to see what it's like.
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Pretty slick (Score:2, Insightful)
by CHK6 on Tuesday August 13, @10:43AM (#4061404)
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I think this is a great concept in the desktop race for simple users. Though simple, it still carries what the end user wants. I know it's not for the hard core. But haven't we all had our eye on the end-user prize for some time? Also, I don't think it's a seperate OS with Mozilla as the emulator. I think Mozilla's features were enhanced to do more things.
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It has its place. (Score:3, Insightful)
by Fugly on Tuesday August 13, @10:48AM (#4061441)
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Well, I watched the flash demo and I have to say it looks like a very slick environment. Without using it, it's hard to say, but I think this is the kind of thing I could give to my mom to use.

You can argue about the technical merits of their implementation all day long but look at how elegant and aesthetically pleasing the interface is compared to say the screen shots on the website of say... your favorite window manager...
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Penzilla's Mascot is Tux? (Score:1, Offtopic)
by JudgeFurious on Tuesday August 13, @10:49AM (#4061450)
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That didn't look like Tux to me.
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Ok, but.. (Score:2, Informative)
by FreeLinux on Tuesday August 13, @10:52AM (#4061466)
(User #555387 Info)
While this "desktop" does look rather elegant and has a pleasing appearance it has some rather significant issues that may not be immediately apparent.

First there is the question of speed. Layering browser type apps on top of Mozilla, on top of Red Hat is surely going to mean a performance hit.

Then of course is the age-old problem of application compatibility. Or, more specifically, file format compatibility. Here we have yet another office suite with the most important file format glaringly absent. How long will it take developers to realize that .doc *is* the standard, regardless of whether we like it or not. Without support for this file format and the other MS Office formats these Yet Another Office Apps(YAOA) don't have a chance.

There is also the question, a *major* one in my mind, of why a Linux based company builds their website targeting IE and Netscape base browsers. I take major issue with this, regarless of the fact that IE is the dominant browser. If you are going to use, sell or advocate open source and open standards then your web site should too. But oeone gives us Yet Another IE Site(YAIS), and one that requires Flash to view the screen shots. At least they, thankfully, didn't host the site with IIS.

Sorry oeone, I've already lost all interest.
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Abiword plugin for mozilla, sweet (Score:1)
by gnugnugnu on Tuesday August 13, @11:05AM (#4061541)
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checkout the abiword plugin for mozilla at
http://abimoz.mozdev.org [mozdev.org]

pretty cool
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Interesting AOL related quote (Score:2)
by galaga79 on Tuesday August 13, @11:05AM (#4061549)
(User #307346 Info | http://www.scrapbook.melb.net/)
Considering the recent story on AOL and Mozilla/Netscape/Gecko I thought some of you would find this quote interesting. Personally I would like to see them pull off something like this.

Eid is also talking to AOL. Imagine a PC with a desktop based on a Mozilla or Netscape browser, one with an AOL logo on it, that is as tightly integrated with the AOL service as Microsoft would like all PCs to be with its own .NET, MSN, and Passport services.
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Knoppix cds (Score:1)
by mr. marbles on Tuesday August 13, @11:06AM (#4061557)
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i'd like to see this kind of simple desktop on one CD you can run on any system, Knoppix style. It would be cool just to be able to carry a cd around and have a nice simple desktop with you all the time. Beats loging on in WinXP on the computers all over my campus.
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like netscape constellation?? (Score:1)
by vic20beta on Tuesday August 13, @11:11AM (#4061590)
(User #573096 Info)
I remember reading in Byte ages ago about the future "network appliances" at the time. It was when win 95 had the shell extensions to have your background a web page and web channels and so on...Netscape had something simmilar called constellation, but I've never saw it, does anyone remember it/saw it working?? Cheers! /v
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Linux terminal for high-endusers (Score:4, Funny)
by BroadbandBradley on Tuesday August 13, @11:21AM (#4061671)
(User #237267 Info | http://zillavilla.com/)
in the nice demo tour at thier website, near the end it shows top running in a terminal window, the caption says:
Linux terminal for high-endusers

of course I thought, hey it's great someone is thinking about us stoners and providing the features that us really high end users need.

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A step towards ... (Score:1, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13, @11:24AM (#4061699)
...Having Linux on more desktops. I havent tried it yet and it doesnt appeal to me directly (although I will install it soon..), but at least it's a step towards orginality on Linux desktops, and more "User-Friendly"-ness much needed for Linux.

And those who think it's a ridiculous idea, I'd like to know one thing: What are YOU doing to make things easier for end-users (I.E. Winbloze users mostly) to help them use Linux on the desktop?

We have to start thinking in terms of whats cool for such newbies, and really stop having that "I dont use GUI and Im better than you lowlife win user", otherwise you're just going to be turning people away from a wonderful OS which has a lot to offer. And whats to say, that some users after some time won't start becoming "Power-Users" and use Linux like most of us.... You catch more flies with honey remember?

Spread the love, Tux love!
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ahem.. (Score:2)
by vr (f.u.cn.rd.ths.u.r.prbly.a.gk@hihi.boo) on Tuesday August 13, @11:25AM (#4061703)
(User #9777 Info | http://dirtyhack.org/)
I'd just like to emphasize that it apparently is an operating _environment_, not operating _system_. I guess there's a difference somewhere.. Also; they're pitching it at ugly people. Or so it appears.. They have a bunch of them on their webpage.
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I don't like it (Score:1)
by gotak on Tuesday August 13, @11:29AM (#4061734)
(User #547354 Info | http://slashdot.org/)
Seems like another one of those "Gee this is a great idea" ideas that just fall flat on it's face.

This DESKTOP seems lot like just a new interface with remote storage for a price thrown in. Whatever happened to all those dot.coms that offered webbased remote storage?

Right now i see about as much use for this as used toilet paper.
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Before you install... (Score:3, Informative)
by Jodrell on Tuesday August 13, @11:30AM (#4061740)
(User #191685 Info | http://jodrell.net/)
You might want to know the following before you install...

  • The installer appears to be based on Ximian's Red Carpet [ximian.com]. This is actually a pretty snazzy tool, but it can be unresponsive while it resolves dependencies. It will download any packages it needs into /var/cache/redcarpet and clobber the installer file in that directory, so backup if you think you're going to need it.

  • It wants to install a huge great pile of dependencies (115MB on my system), like Abiword and OpenSSL and many others, even some perl modules, even though most of them were already installed. So be warned that it may clobber (and possibly break) a lot of your existing software. My advice is to use a sacrificial machine if you want to try it out.

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Sorry RedHat only (NO THANKS) (Score:1)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13, @11:35AM (#4061780)
This POS wont install on Mandrake which IS mostly RedHat. So I guess Debian, SuSe and others are out of question. I say Thanks, but NO THANKS.

If you dont know how to make it work on other distros, let US do it, because I aint buying your dumbed down version of Linux.
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Here's the power in this (Score:4, Insightful)
by psicE on Tuesday August 13, @11:37AM (#4061795)
(User #126646 Info | http://slashdot.org/)
So somebody releases another Linux desktop. Not important. What is important is that it's based on XUL, theoretically a fully cross-platform toolkit; many simple XUL-based applets can run, unedited, on Mozilla on all platforms, at native speed.

Imagine if this OEone desktop can somehow be designed to work equally well on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. So that a user can have a completely identical desktop no matter where they are. It makes transition to Linux much easier than before. Eh?
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Is this really open source? ... doesn't seem so (Score:1)
by Totally_Lost on Tuesday August 13, @11:42AM (#4061834)
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While some components of it appear to be open source the articles obvious claim is the entire thing is open source. Going to the down load page talks about a license, and other links point to open source components, but none point to an open source download of the product as stated.

Feels like a bait and switch hoax to me.
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A half decent looking media player (Score:1)
by gnugnugnu on Tuesday August 13, @11:49AM (#4061881)
(User #178215 Info | http://kuro5hin.org/ | Last Journal: Monday August 05, @09:52AM)
http://www.oeone.com/images/screenshots/sm_wordpro cessor.gif

Nice, finally an open source linux based media player that does not use MDI (Gimp is a great program but man i cannot get used to that interface).
makes sense to have an interface that is not a radical departure from Quicktime/Realplayer/Microsoft media player interfaces.

I wonder what is based on? Gstreamer, i would gess.

Oeone seems to be full of nice litte pieces that would be a welcome addition to the standard desktop.
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Basis for really cheap PC app. (Score:3, Interesting)
by alistair on Tuesday August 13, @11:50AM (#4061886)
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One of the most interesting things to come from the review was the potential for this to be sold as an embedded computing device. I guess many Slashdot readers grew up in the age when we had Atari 400/800s, Vic 20s, Commodore 64s, BBC and Spectrums. The interesting thing about all these devices was that that only required a TV for display and they all had costs which were in the $100 - $350 range, low enough to be affordable to 11 / 12 / 13 years olds. For a long time after that we have been educated that $1000 has been the right price to pay for a PC with Games Consoles holding the low end of the market.

An embedded device with this plus Linux in a single keyboard device surely hold the possibility of a return to those days. This would boot directly into the browser and mail / OpenOffice and thus provide more of the functionality than todays set top boxes usually provide. The interior of Linux would be hidden but would be available for those who wanted to hack on the system. The price could then be lower than even the bare bones systems Wal Mart has been selling recently (and remember many of us in Europe still can't get systems this cheap). By using the TV as an output device it could compete with Games Consoles and run software of similar quality (Doom, Quake World, Tux Racer :-) ). The space advantages of having a keyboard sized device should not be underestimated, many people who have a PC for their home office don't want to take up the same space again for a kids device. As broadband take up increases this could share the bandwidth with other PCs and mobile devices.

If they could get the price back to the level of the much loved home computers of old, I would buy one, if only to boot up Atari and Commodore emulators....
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My Grandpa wants a computer (Score:2)
by Jeppe Salvesen on Tuesday August 13, @02:15PM (#4063152)
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After seeing some of the geneology sites, he got a bit interested. This is a typical example of what I could recommend. It's rather specific, stable and can be remotely administered (given that I set up a proper firewall to shield him as much as possible from portscans from other people than me).
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usermode linux root_fs? (Score:1)
by arf_arf_arf on Tuesday August 13, @02:24PM (#4063217)
(User #543083 Info)
so who's gonna throw together an rh 7.2 usermode linux root file system with this thing? should be pretty easy to do. that'd allow people to look at it without the pain an install might cause if you don't have a box to spare at the moment. i'm thinking my girlfriend might like this. i might just do it myself when i get a chance. but work's a tad busy these days.
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A very good tool (Score:1)
by X-Nc (god@nOSpaM.x-nc.net) on Tuesday August 13, @03:13PM (#4063663)
(User #34250 Info | http://www.x-nc.net/)
I've been running the OEone version of Linux for a number of months now. It's really very nice for what it was designed for. I'm running it on an Athlon @ 1.2 GHz with 396M RAM and it's not exactlly blazing but that's ok. It doesn't need to be blazing. FWLIW, I wouldn't run this ontop of RH or anything other than OEone's Linux version.

I'm trying to get a system for my mother to use. She is 64 and a grandmother of three and not at all interested in computers other than to use them for web, email & occational documents. HomeBase is, IMNSHO, the perfict GUI for someone like her.

There's been a number of reviews/articles in the "My (grand)mother can now run Linux" but none of them take the view of the (grand)mother. They all look at the issue from the techie's POV. If I can get a system for my mom I think I'll try and write a review like that.

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Sounds like some of Netware 6's functionality (Score:1)
by Jim Norton (nowayto@spam.me) on Tuesday August 13, @03:24PM (#4063764)
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This is something like what Novell seems to be doing with Netware 6: a web-based interface to a networked environment. Although their focus seems to be more broad than that, the premise seems to be the same: access to computing resources from any platform, anywhere using a web-based standard interface.

To me, stuff like this is the most significant innovation in networking technology that i've seen in years.
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Pretty cutting-edge development all around (Score:2)
by xant (xant*users.sourceforge.nothin.but.net) on Tuesday August 13, @04:32PM (#4064378)
(User #99438 Info | http://nestofcandles.org/)
They really pay attention to details, I'll give them that. Before I even install the software I have already encountered several examples of Good Thinking.

#1: This is their installer: $ lynx -source http://install.oeone.com/ |sh

This trick has been around for a while (I use it [nuvc.org] myself) but it's good to see a commercial developer paying attention to tricks of the trade. No need to explain to people how to use the command line to run an installer, just paste, please.

#2: CVS pserver. Once again, commercial developer paying attention.

Now, I give them a strike for providing a RedHat-only installation. A binary tarball would have been fine. But...

#3: The source code hasn't just been dumped on the net with a little "here ya go, knock yerselves out" message. They've taken the time [oeone.com] to explain how things work and even provided hints for Going Debian.

#4: Their mascot [oeone.com] doesn't suck. :-) Even though I personally would have named it "Tuxilla."
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Re:Funny. (Score:1)
by bsDaemon (Mr.Spooty@microshaft.org) on Tuesday August 13, @10:26AM (#4061267)
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Isn't that the concept behind "active desktop" in Windows, and using IE as the shell-ish thing?
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Re:how do you pronounce it (Score:2)
by Dannon on Tuesday August 13, @10:30AM (#4061314)
(User #142147 Info)
Remember that scene in The Wizard of Oz, with the Wicked Witch's army? I think it's like that song....
 
Oooooeeeeeon Oeeeeeeeeeeeon.
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Re:if it runs on top of mozilla (Score:2, Informative)
by spdw on Tuesday August 13, @10:34AM (#4061353)
(User #600680 Info)
It's currently only been tested and verified to run on top of redhat 7.1 and redhat 7.2. If you wish to download the pre-packaged binaries they are all in rpm format. Should you want to try to compile it on another system other than redhat 7.1 or 7.2 you're more than welcome to download the source code and give it a try! Dan
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Re:how do you pronounce it (Score:1)
by ShavenYak on Tuesday August 13, @10:35AM (#4061357)
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I'm thinking more along the lines of...

krap

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Re:how do you pronounce it (Score:1)
by prisen ((jbruns) (at) (mmcable.com)) on Tuesday August 13, @10:36AM (#4061369)
(User #578061 Info)
holy crap, i'm still trying to figure out how to pronounce the CEO's name..."Eid Eid"...WTF?
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Re:Screeenshots? (Score:1)
by Ilgaz on Tuesday August 13, @10:47AM (#4061427)
(User #86384 Info)
geez, you hate flash so you can't view their demo?

What do you expect? Animated gif?

pure latest DHTML so they lose 70% of potential interest? (if ever can be done?)

hmm being 133t has some disadvantages it seems *g*
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Re:Screeenshots? (Score:1)
by AyeRoxor! on Tuesday August 13, @11:00AM (#4061505)
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Flash really sucks. I've gone over it before. Just thought I'd mention that I would also like to see the screenshots, but I won't, for the same reasons [slashdot.org].
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Great point except... (Score:1)
by JudgeFurious on Tuesday August 13, @11:04AM (#4061539)
(User #455868 Info)
I am a Mac fan bigtime and I would jump right in and agree with you except that the new PowerMacs are pretty much a minor change with a little bump in speed that frankly doesn't do anything for me. The previous Quicksilver looked better (and damned glad I got one) in my opinion and the "big news" this time is the startling lack of any "big news".

  Now had they popped out a G5 running at 1.5-2Ghz then they might merit more attention. Had they brought something truly different looking even then you might have seen it on the front page. As it stands it's not really much worth mentioning.

 
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Re:Screeenshots? (Score:1)
by spdw on Tuesday August 13, @11:13AM (#4061606)
(User #600680 Info)
There are screenshots available

http://www.oeone.com/products/screenshots.html [oeone.com]
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Re:Does this seem familiar? (Score:2, Informative)
by Darth Maul (msherman@stealthboy.com) on Tuesday August 13, @11:24AM (#4061698)
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Same here! I had to resort to a clean install. The Ximian red-carpet installer totally trashed my system. It kept installing multiple versions of the same package, and dependencies were far more busted than I thought possible. I also couldn't update past 7.1, so I just decided to do a fresh install and never touch Ximian again.

*shudder*

In fact, the whole Ximian Gnome experience was the final nail in my personal Gnome coffin. I made the switch to KDE after all that mess.
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Re:Funny. (Score:1)
by gnugnugnu on Tuesday August 13, @11:34AM (#4061776)
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It is not an OS, it is a custom distribution based on Redhat, using an alternative desktop to Gnome/KDE or anything else.

If you are going to have mozilla open all day anyway why not have it integrated into your whole desktop! These would make for pretty cool web terminals.

Another post asks if this is like Active Desktop, and would say it is (even though in windows the browser is already embedded in Explorer and the whole rest of the desktop so you have already take the performance hit)
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Re:Funny. (Score:1)
by mrscott on Tuesday August 13, @11:38AM (#4061805)
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How many people don't know the first thing about using a browser? Not very many. Almost everyone that has a computer can at least get to a web site and navigate around.

I've kicked around starting a desktop Linux program at my company, but it is extremely difficult due to training aspects and people's comfort level. It is solutions such as this that help to drive people such as me to new installations because we have more tools at our disposal. Don't discount it without trying to use it.

Scott
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Re:My two bits. (Score:1)
by Ilgaz on Tuesday August 13, @12:47PM (#4062360)
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hehe it would be a cool thing, if they added a computer special vbasic acceleration chips, make it a dedicated box to develop Outlook Express viruses.

OEone .)

(waits mozilla gang to -50 him) :))

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Re:My two bits. (Score:1)
by mudshark on Tuesday August 13, @05:11PM (#4064703)
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It's the song the Winged Monkeys in the Wizard of Oz movie sing:

(in low, somewhat menacing Slavic Male Chorus tone)

OEone
Eo-one!
OEone
Eo-one!

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