PLF: mockup applications is a desktop operating system, based on GNU/Linux. We really love the new 2.6 kernel because it helps people that wants, like us, use the penguin on the desktop.

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The main problem here is that a lot of people think that Linux is ready for the desktop. Look at MacOS (both Classic and X) and compare it to Fedora, Novell Desktop or Ubuntu. These three mockup applications distribution cannot win the comparison, because they are not the desktop that's in our mind (and probably it's neither the desktop that the Apple guys mean). We're using Qt4 because it's a great, multi platform toolkit. Both GNOME and KDE are not good desktop environments in our humble opinion.

They are bloated, slow and not usable. Also, the so called desktop Linux distributions are not really targeted to desktop. Why a Linux distro ships with a lot of CD-ROMs full of software that won't be used by a lot of people? Why waste time, space and CPU for tons of console-based editors? Just choose one and provide it to your user. This is the philosophy behind Mockup. By creating our simple and fast desktop environment that's designed to run on our GNU/Linux foundation we'll be able to avoid some problems. Every GNU/Linux distro that wants to ship GNOME, KDE and whatever has some problems, it cannot provide stuff only for one environment because people that runs another mockup applications environment will have problems. For example, we'll make a graphical login manager integrated with a sort of bootsplash that runs in user-space. We won't need to think a method to run gdm, kdm or xdm reading a parameter somewhere at some point of the boot procedure. We'll make a bootsplash in user-space that runs an X11 server that will be used by our graphical login manager. There never be a /etc/sysconfig/desktop file for mockup applications