Re: Statement of Direction

[Brett Castleberry <bcc9746 garnet acns fsu edu>]

red-carpet-admin ximian com wrote:

> The Red Carpet developers and the Ximian Core Desktop team have been
> working literally around-the-clock to ensure that Ximian GNOME 1.4 kicks
> total butt. In the meantime, there have been many improvements that have
> been going into RC and its architecture, including making Red Carpet work
> on both RPM 3 and 4 systems simultaneously and having a static binary so
> that the dependencies of RC go away.
> Hold tight; we're still in a beta period and we're working on delivering a
> complete, easy-to-use desktop of which Red Carpet is just one piece.
>
> Joe

Hey! Why don't we all give these people a break.  They're trying to pull 
together a gargantuan complexity of related programs.  Give them some 
space.  If the betas of gnome 1.4, nautilus, and red carpet aren't 
functional for you yet, go back to what works and wait until they are. 
The man says it's not ready yet.  We've come so far so fast.  Could 
anyone have imagined 3 or 4 years ago that Linux would work as well as 
it does now?  Remember what it was like without Gnome?  Would Microsoft 
have ever even answered a request for a statement of direction?  May God 
bless and refresh your tired brains and fingers and eyes, ye Ximian 
programmers, and bring your work to completion, and make ye to lie down 
in green pastures.  Thank you, thank you.

Brett Castleberry
A Librarian