Enlightenment E17 Goes Into Beta

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Enlightenment E17 Goes Into Beta

After pushing out eight alpha releases in a feverish pace, Enlightenment E17 is now into a beta state after being in active development for the past decade...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI0NTE

[Adarion]

Now this is a nice start into the weekend. A bunch of good news instead of Secure Boot and MS and stuff like that.

[89c51]

Now this is a nice start into the weekend. A bunch of good news instead of Secure Boot and MS and stuff like that.

As long as we don't have a company dedicated to linux you ll continue to hear bad news on these fronts. As for E17 i sooooooo much want it to succeed and become popular.

[Awesomeness]

As long as we don't have a company dedicated to linux you ll continue to hear bad news on these fronts.

Yeah, too bad Red Hat just disappeared from the face of the earth…

[89c51]

Yeah, too bad Red Hat just disappeared from the face of the earth…

I meant HW company. Laptops desktops that will come with open bioses (ie coreboot) etc.

[Awesomeness]

I meant HW company. Laptops desktops that will come with open bioses (ie coreboot) etc.

And what does that have to do with Linux?
Android devices all run Linux and yet most's bootloaders are locked.
The first major PC with a locked bootloader was the initial Chromebook which also runs Linux.

[curaga]

Haha, I want to see that - linux laptops with locked bootloaders that cannot boot Windows

[Awesomeness]

Haha, I want to see that - linux laptops with locked bootloaders that cannot boot Windows

As I wrote: Chromebooks

[curaga]

Surely you can install Windows on the x86 chromebooks in dev mode?

[Awesomeness]

Surely you can install Windows on the x86 chromebooks in dev mode?

No: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/...c7-chromebook/ (last section talks about Windows)