I've been interested in Enlightenment E17 for… seems like close to a decade now, periodically checking in on Carsten Haitzler's web page for updates on its progress.
This most recent time, I see this:
"Now why talk about this? Well I'm here at Samsung. I am a principal engineer, so I talk with some level of authority in saying that Samsung has been working on its own Linux based OS for a while now, with significantly less fanfare than Nokia and MeeGo. Not only is is solidly being worked on and not relegated to irrelevance, but as part of the work, Enlightenment and EFL have become a central focus. Samsung is putting real resources behind EFL and using it to make a production-ready OS. The OS not only is Linux based, It uses all the other infrastructure from Linux (DBus, Glibc, Xorg, and much much much more). It is also going to be Open Source (GPL, LGPL etc.) and with Opensource upstream gaining contributions back from Samsung."
Does anyone know if there's something to this? I disappointedly gave up on my Nokia N900 after the MSFT announcement and am now a proud owner of a Nexus S, but I would be thrilled to see another competitor out there. Especially one based on Enlightenment, as I've always been amazed at how responsive and eye-catching it was, even on lower end hardware.
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I've been interested in Enlightenment E17 for… seems like close to a decade now, periodically checking in on Carsten Haitzler's web page for updates on its progress.
This most recent time, I see this:
"Now why talk about this? Well I'm here at Samsung. I am a principal engineer, so I talk with some level of authority in saying that Samsung has been working on its own Linux based OS for a while now, with significantly less fanfare than Nokia and MeeGo. Not only is is solidly being worked on and not relegated to irrelevance, but as part of the work, Enlightenment and EFL have become a central focus. Samsung is putting real resources behind EFL and using it to make a production-ready OS. The OS not only is Linux based, It uses all the other infrastructure from Linux (DBus, Glibc, Xorg, and much much much more). It is also going to be Open Source (GPL, LGPL etc.) and with Opensource upstream gaining contributions back from Samsung."
Does anyone know if there's something to this? I disappointedly gave up on my Nokia N900 after the MSFT announcement and am now a proud owner of a Nexus S, but I would be thrilled to see another competitor out there. Especially one based on Enlightenment, as I've always been amazed at how responsive and eye-catching it was, even on lower end hardware.
what do you mean "gave up" on n900? enlightenment, in particular its touch WM Illume runs fine on it