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https://www.trinitydesktop.org/newsentry.php?entry=2014.12.16
The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new TDE R14.0.0 release. The Trinity Desktop Environment is a complete software desktop environment designed for Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software.
Unlike previous releases TDE R14.0.0 has been in development for over two years. This extended development period has allowed us to create a better, more stable and more feature-rich product than previous TDE releases. R14 is brimming with new features, such as a new hardware manager based on udev (HAL is no longer required), full network-manager 0.9 support, a brand new compositor (compton), built-in threading support, and much more!
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Wednesday December 17 2014, @02:40PM
I liked BeOS when it was first released
(Score: 2) by Marand on Thursday December 18 2014, @03:10AM
BeOS was definitely something special. Boot times were ridiculously fast, it was stable, and compared to Windows 95, Linux of the time, and whatever MacOS version Apple had, the GUI was slick, modern, and really nice to use.
I was lucky enough to have hardware that worked well with BeOS5, so I spent a bit of time with it. I liked the unix-like feel of the command line aspects and I absolutely loved the way the titlebars just automatically worked as tabs. The latter is something I really wish other window managers would pick up on. Kwin can do something close but it's really clunky in comparison, and most WMs don't even have anything remotely similar.
It's shame it died off. Compared to what was available at the time it was like a glimpse of desktop computing's future. I was cheering for it even though I knew it didn't have much chance against Apple and Microsoft.