[olug] More gloating

[Sam Tetherow]

One other distro that I know of is Austrumi which uses E17. Granted it 
is not a major distro like YDL. But actually kind of impressive since it 
is a business card LiveCD.

Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless

Cesar Delgado wrote:
> Well, E17, much like it's older brother E16, will probaly never be
> released.  So E17 really stands for E 0.17, as E16 E 0.16.  That's a
> long way from a 1.0 release.  So for each change in numbers they make,
> there's a lot of change.  I think they number the things in experience
> more than in who close they are to a finished product.  EFL
> (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) change every release as those guys
> learn more and more on code optimization, organization and what works
> and what doesn't.
>
> YDL5 is the first distro to release Enlightenment in any form in a long
> time.  Like I said, we worked quite close with the E people and smashed
> all of the big bugs that we called "show stoppers".  Once that was done
> we just took a snapshot from CVS and have been working on making it
> stable.  That's what we're releasing.
>
> Adam Lassek wrote:
>   
>> Wow, Enlightenment's still around? Have they released E17 yet?
>>
>> On 10/16/06, Cesar Delgado <cdelgad2 at bigred.unl.edu> wrote:
>>     
>>> So this was the other part of my summer.
>>>
>>> I got to work quite closely with the Enlightenment guys to make it
>>> happen.  I mean, if you're going to run Linux on a PS3 might as well go
>>> all out and get a sweet dektop on there.  It's amazing hat those guys
>>> did in the short time we had to get stuff done.  Changes in the back-end
>>> of E, bug squashing.  Those guys get serious kudos for their work.
>>> Brilliant people and an awsome dektop.
>>>
>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/10/16/1342243.shtml
>>>
>>> Cheers all,
>>>
>>> -Cesar
>>>
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