{"id":903,"date":"2012-12-23T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T11:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=903"},"modified":"2012-12-24T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T10:15:23","slug":"e17-theres-no-rushing-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"E17 &#8211; there&#8217;s no rushing a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/12\/22\/0129200\/after-12-years-of-development-e17-is-out\">Slashdot reports<\/a> that E17 &#8211; the latest version of the Enlightenment desktop environment &#8211; has just been released. The previous release of Enlightenment took place in 2000 &#8211; 12 years ago!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/enlightenment.org\/p.php?p=news\/show&amp;l=en&amp;news_id=77\">release announcement<\/a> is very sparse (apart from a list of the E17 developers):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>E17 has been in development for a long time, and there have been a lot of people involved over the years. At this time, the first and final official release of E17, I think it&#8217;s important to name names and thank everyone who has been involved over the years.<\/p>\n<p>(The names follow here)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! Here endeth the release announcement.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 532px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enlightenment.org\/p\/about\/e17\/d\/e-shot-main.png\" width=\"532\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Screenshot of the new e17 release\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of the new E17 release<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve occasionally used Enlightenment and found it to be a very lightweight, nifty desktop environment\/window manager. It comes as the default desktop environment in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodhilinux.com\/\">Bodhi Linux<\/a>, a distribution especially made for running on older hardware.<\/p>\n<p>E17 is also known as Enlightenment 0.17 and the new release has also been codenamed the &#8220;Lucky Rubber Ducky&#8221; by its developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot reports that E17 &#8211; the latest version of the Enlightenment desktop environment &#8211; has just been released. The previous release of Enlightenment took place in 2000 &#8211; 12 years ago! The release announcement is very sparse (apart from a list of the E17 developers): E17 has been in development for a long time, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}