Re: this is a modern way to present a project

[Dan Hitt]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
<lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
> I see this as an inspirational source for those who aim to redesign the web 
> pages of GNUstep:
>
> http://elementaryos.org/
>
> for those interested: this is GTK based (sadly not GNUstep) 
> http://elementaryos.org/docs/code/hello-world
>

Hi Lars,

In fact, Elementary has a lot of strengths, and their designers are thoughtful.

They have a vigorous mailing list (like GNUstep does), and good
developers (also like GNUstep).

But one thing that is different about Elementary is that you can
download it, burn it on a cd, stick it in any machine, boot from it,
install it on a partition, and use it day-to-day.

In fact i used it for about 6 months, and enjoyed it very much.

It's ready to go, and no user has to agonize over what system to put it on.

And of course if that could be done with GNUstep distro that would be
so wonderful, because the ideas in GNUstep are still extremely
powerful.

(But systems like Elementary are getting better all the time, and they
are using a very nice language, vala, to program in.  It is written to
provide language-level support for the G-object system.  It is not as
far along as objective-c on NeXTstep was, imvho, but it is getting
better.)

dan