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Enlightenment 17 released

Enlightenment 17 released

Posted Dec 24, 2012 0:28 UTC (Mon) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899)
Parent article: Enlightenment 17 released

Oh woe! Duke Nuke'm Forever came out in 2011, and now E17 is out, and the world hasn't ended yet, and Steam is on Linux.
I think I need to go lie down now, it's just all too much!</funny-hat>

More seriously:
Congrats to the Enlightenment team, it's surely been a long and windy road, so congratulations for getting it finished. Will be sure to take a look someday soon.


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Enlightenment 17 released

Posted Dec 24, 2012 4:54 UTC (Mon) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

The Amiga X1000 shipped earlier in the year as well, so that just leaves Perl 6.

Enlightenment 17 released

Posted Dec 24, 2012 5:11 UTC (Mon) by sprink (guest, #45735) [Link]

Let's not forget about Samba 4. I think it was in development for a good 7 years?
Good year for open source software.

Enlightenment 17 released

Posted Dec 24, 2012 8:23 UTC (Mon) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

Not to mention Wayland 1.0, AKA X12 in all but name.

Enlightenment 17 released

Posted Dec 24, 2012 9:05 UTC (Mon) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link]

And a slew of Kickstarter game projects had Linux as stretch goals, and made it, making Linux a very legitimate gaming OS, and Humble Bundle has definitely pushed the agenda quite well as well.

Enlightenment 17 released

Posted Dec 24, 2012 12:11 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

We're running out of comically long-term projects to anticipate. Other than hurd, I mean.

This is a wonderful christmas present, thanks to all the E guys.

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