The NeXT Information Archive is back. "NIA has evolved from being an information place to being the actual place for ALL NeXT related material; We provide you with information, guides, articles - yes, all the classic stuff, that you know us for - but we've also started to bring you software directly on our site. Help you on your way with learning programming and in general just bring resources to you – everything needed for being able to use NeXT as your daily operating system and of course thereby using NeXT software."
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2006-01-18
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I could not agree more. As the owner of a PPC mac mini, I'd love to switch to GNUstep on OpenDarwin, or some other FOSS OS. My machine has lots of servicable years left, but I know that Tiger is as far as I will be able to go with Apple, and the patches and updates will dry up eventually.
With that said, I have yet to see a distribution of Linux or *BSD with GNUstep as the default wm for PPC.
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2006-03-30
i actually just setup a freeBSD box as a desktop machine this weekend. i didnt want to go wait 3 days to compile gnome/kde from ports not to mention im not all that fond of either of them. so i gave windowmaker a try which led me to try out gnustep too flesh out the rest of the desktop enviroment.
so far im finding that it is pretty nice! i just wish you could do something about the ugly grey look of all the GNUstep apps.
Member since:
2005-07-07
I found this a bit ago messing around looking for gnustep stuff:
http://www.etoile-project.org
They seem a bit ambitious, still, creating a cohesive environment that was consistent with the philosophy of GNUstep seems like a good idea, to me. This should definitely receive more interest.
Member since:
2006-02-04
so far im finding that it is pretty nice! i just wish you could do something about the ugly grey look of all the GNUstep apps.
Actually you can do the following:
svn co svn://svn.gna.org/svn/etoile/trunk etoile
cd etoile/Etoile/Bundles/Camaelon
make
make install
The Cameleon theme engine is installed to:
$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library/Bundles/Camaelon.themeEngine
After that, you also need to tell GNUstep where to find the
theme bundle, so write :
defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSAppKitUserBundles '( "YourLocationTo/Camaelon.themeEngine" )'
create the directory
~/GNUstep/Library/Themes/ if it is not already there
download http://www.roard.com/Nesedah.theme.tgz to e.g. ~/gnustep
cd ~/GNUstep/Library/Themes/
tar xzf /home/michi/gnustep/Nesedah.theme.tgz
defaults write Camaelon Theme Nesedah
Here you can find some themes:
http://www.etoile-project.org/etoile/mediawiki/index.php?title=Cama...
Member since:
2005-11-13
I am too young to have known NeXT in all of its glory, but I do think that sites like this are important for current projects like GNUstep. I am a happy GNUstep user and (when I get around to learning Obj-C) would like to at some point contribute to the GNUstep comunity by writing my own GNUstep apps. I am not sure that I would ever have tried GNUstep, though, if I had not read about the NeXT and been curious about it, trying the next closest thing: GNUstep. Remembering NeXT emphasizes the power behind an architecture like GNUstep, while projects like GNUstep keep alive the NeXT way of doing things. In short there is a symbiotic relationship between them, and there is no point bashing either groups as they are both working to keep the NeXT alive.
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2005-07-06
My first real job was as an NT administrator for a customer moving from NeXT. They had the largest production NeXT environment. (8K seats or so) All I can say was that was first real intro to UNIX and I love NeXT. I remember actually working on NetInfo. NIreport NIpush... good fun....
