The Etoile project has released a release candiate for the 0.2 version of their live CD. “The Etoile project aims to produce a document-centric desktop and post-desktop environment. The project is built on top of GNUstep, a high-quality Free Software implementation of the OpenStep specification from Sun and NeXT and popularised by Apple as Cocoa.”
I’ve been waiting on an RC or new beta. I’m looking forward to a modern GNUStep based desktop.
Cosidering that (at least from my impression) quite a few Étoilé developers have a Macintosh background, I wonder why there’s no PowerPC live CD.
This might be dumb, but I didn’t see it, what is the live cd login/password?
Never mind, found it
Whats happened to the website? everytime news is made about this distribution, I can’t even load the website! Anyone give me a heads up on why the website is broken?
It’s not.
Maybe your ISP can’t connect to that server. Try using a proxy server.
Anybody know the hardware requirements … looking for sth. nice to install on a very old laptop.
IceWM, Fluxbox or regular GNUstep should do the trick.
“IceWM, Fluxbox or regular GNUstep should do the trick.”
Depending on how “old” the laptop actually is, XFCE 3 and 4, IceWM, FluxBox and WindowMaker are a good idea for a GUI system. Even fvwm is imaginable, if you want to do some “cosmetics” after installation. 🙂
(NB: GNUstep != WindowMaker, GNUstep != a window manager or a desktop; == a framework / library / standard specification; WindowMaker is the official window manager for GNUstep, but it is not written using GNUstep, if I remember correctly)
You do. Window Maker is using its own toolkit library called WiNGS (an acronym for WiNGS is not GNUstep).
This is a RC, meaning that if you want to really play with etoile, it’d better to wait for the final release of the livecd (shouldn’t be very long now normally). Compared to the previous pre-0.2 livecd, there’s also less apps to play with.
Its odd Etoile decided to build a document-centric desktop based on something quite application-centric: OpenStep.
Though, based from the screenshots, it doesn’t seem all that much more document-centric than other OpenStep-ish implementations.
Nice website though, a nice change from horribly-designed websites of other distributions. A good first impression.