__/ [ William Poaster ] on Tuesday 27 June 2006 23:29 \__
> Anyone who wants to try out an OS with a different approach to things, &
> has a spare drive/partition to install it on, try SymphonyOS -
> http://www.symphonyos.com/
>
> Sceenshots: http://www.symphonyos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=63
>
> It's based on Debian & still in BETA stage, but it's interesting & seems
> quite promising IMHO.
The following link might be of interest:
http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060621SymphonyOS.html
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| Mezzo does away with menus and uses the corners of the screen as click
| points to bring up desklet applications. These apps are simple scripts
| that output html snippets; that ultimately gets drawn on the screen by
| Orchestra. If you know Perl and a little HTML, you can produce your
| own desklets in seconds.
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The screenshots illustrate much of what's available. Very impressive, in my
opinion. Also worth admiration is Sun's Looking Glass:
http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/ (video demo therein)
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