Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Dec 2006 10:14 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Gael Duval has announced the first test release of Ulteo, a new distribution started by Mandrake-founder Gael Duval. From the release announcement: "Here is the first public version of Ulteo! Its codename is 'Sirius' because we want to make it a star." From the release notes: "This installable live CD is based on Debian and Ubuntu packages. It's installed on the hard-drive using 'Yuch'. A daemon, called UGD (Ulteo General Daemon), is always connecting to Ulteo servers to see if a newer, more up to date system is available. It can then upgrade to this new system." Ulteo is based on Ubuntu 6.06 and uses kernel 2.6.15, X.Org 7.0, KDE 3.5.2, and Firefox 1.5.0.8. The CD image is available for download. Update: Screenshot tour. Rejoice, boys and girls.
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The average user couldn't care less about UGD, they care about eye-candy.
That's "Marketing" speaking. There is absolutely no evidence of that. The average user doesn't care about eye candy. Only the wannabe-geeks care about eye-candy. The average user only cares about getting things to work.
The *Nix Desktop is not copying Windows. It's the other way around, and has been like that for some years.
Oh, and you shouldn't promote a desktop-oriented OS as "innovative" withount giving some kind of visual "innovation".
That's Marketing bullshit, and you ought to remove all such referencens from your memory immediately. Marketing speech is not compatible with software engineering.
Once Ulteo is finally released, that UI will be outdated (it already is, taking Vista as reference).
Woot? O_o
It's just a skin. Your line of thinking reminds me of the 14 yo "133t - oh, we're so cool" pop kids.
Anyway: Average Joe would happily use Windows 3.1 still - it's the power users and the wannabe-geeks that requires eye-candy. Usually because they are not good enough to fix the flaws in the desktop implementation. Had they been that good, they wouldn't waste the time on "fancy GUI".