Sun, 30 May 2004
PC World Reviews Cobind Desktop 0.1 alpha
Matthew Newton, who writes the Free Agent column for PC World, has reviewed Cobind Desktop 0.1 alpha. The more interesting parts of his review include the following:
...the duct tape holding it together shows.
Given the praise heaped on perl for being the duct tape of the internet, I'm flattered.
It's pointless to go into greater detail given that this is version 0.1, and clearly much work remains to be done. For example, one project the Cobind team is taking on is the creation of a friendly GUI for Yum, which Cobind also uses for package fetching. What's obvious at this early stage is that Cobind is a very interesting work in progress. I'll be keeping an eye on it.
Yep, and that'll be coming out real soon now, once we come to some conclusion with Seth Vidal as to whether the code can be integrated into the yum head branch without incurring a cranial infarction.
Cobind also opened my eyes to the XFCE desktop.
Excellent! We've seen a lot of evidence that we've helped to spread the word that XFCE deserves a rightful place alongside desktop heavyweights such as GNOME and KDE. FC2 confirmed that by including XFCE in the GDM menu choices. Kudos to the XFCE team!
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