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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