[KLUG Members] Groklaw - Novell Contributes Xgl and the Community Offers Kororaa LiveCD

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > Has anyone been keeping up with Novell's contribution to the XGL project? 
> Yes; cool!  The window tile-ing actually looks useful.
> What personally stikes me as more important [then some frilly 3d stuff]
> is http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/
> "One application that got a lot of attention is GNOME Terminal which can
> now display the entire contents of the dictionary on the screen
> literally in a second, or in under 2 seconds using antialiased fonts
> (using antialiased fonts it took xterm 1m 13s to do the same!)."

Here is an actual review of the new GNOME -
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/17/0350228  A pretty complete
review except the author says some really puzzling things: (1) "Ekiga
itself has undergone sweeping changes, and now sports video and voice
over IP" (2) "Its [Beagle] largest drawback is its sluggish performance
on Reiser filesystems" (3) "Integrating other functions, such as file
compression, into Nautilus would also make sense,"

[1] - Ekiga (formerly) GNOME Meeting has been a full voice/video over IP
application from DAY ONE, something like three or four YEARS ago.
[2] This just doesn't make any sense.  Did he test it on other
filesystems?  As I understand it Beagle works via GNOME-VFS.
[3] This is there already, and has been for awhile;  the author is
recommending it as a new feature.

But very cool is: (1) "Usefully, Evolution, also supports memos now,"
Yay! (2) Evolution's address book is now integrated with Ekiga.(3)
Pessulus & Sabayon, <cough>finally the LINUX desktop has something that
can at least compete with NT4's POLEDIT </cough>  The use of xnest in
this case is very cool,  I wish I could do that on Windows!
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