[linux-audio-user] E17 - our choice of WM in the future?

[Thomas Vecchione]

> 
> Pre-alpha status after 6 years of development.  I think they missed
> whatever opportunity they had to become a popular desktop. 

I would completely disagree with this one.  In fact many people I have 
seen recently trying e17 because it is getting nice reviews, even in its 
alpha status and several have been impressed.  Not to mention they are 
starting to get looked at by some of the distros out there, Yellow Dog 
as an example has switched to e17 for their desktop by default in 5.0 
when that is released, which will be running native on the PS3/Cell so 
it should be interesting to see what becomes of that.

Personally I have been using e17 for some time now on my workstation and 
am pretty happy with it.  There is a bit of flakiness I believe because 
of my setup more than anything, a problem with binary drivers and e17's 
libs(Yea I know I should be using Open Source), but other than that it 
is great.  Even what flakiness does exist is very minor and doesn't get 
in my way until I run the thing for a couple of days straight;)

Just because it takes a while doesn't mean it can't be good when it is 
released.  Lightweight + Good Looking = Nice Desktop for me.

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