Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 18th Nov 2008 22:07 UTC, submitted by NicolasRoard
The new 0.4 version of Etoile had just been released. Etoile intends to be an innovative, GNUstep-based, user environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components.
It is created with project and document orientation in mind, in order to allow users to create their own workflow by reshaping or recombining provided Services (aka Applications) and Components. 0.4 is a developer-targeted release on its way towards this goal. As a developer-focussed release, this predominantly consists of frameworks.
A few demonstration applications are also included.
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Etoile is an awesome project. I don't think it really matters what happens as long as they are able to get a few more applications written. At this point there's an almost functional desktop in there. I would like to see an improved finder more along the lines of nautilus/Finder for mac. A completed Vespucci and Melodie would round out most of the desktop for me. I mainly use the web/chat/irc/mail/music. GNUMail.app is ready, TalkSoup is ready. Babbler/Gmplayer ports are progressing. The rest is coming along well. I'll be interested in the 4.1 user release. It's shaping up to be a very mac-alike desktop without the expensive price tag. I just checkout the code and build it myself. I've found binary distros are crap at keeping up with package versions. Unfortunately both gentoo and Sabayon appear to suffer from the same rot.
Edited 2008-11-19 00:51 UTC