Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/06/nautilus_resurfaces_from_eazel_wreckage/
Nautilus resurfaces from Eazel wreckage
File mangler breathes again
Posted in Software, 6th July 2001 13:32 GMT
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It's a terrible thought, but Eazel's demise may prove to be the best thing ever to happen to Nautilus, the software libre file manager.
Eazel went titsup.tar.gz in March, having burned through $13 million trying to make a business of selling services around Nautilus.
But the GPL software lives on. A new release 1.04 issued yesterday includes both real and cosmetic fixes, and doesn't keep trying to force the now-defunct Eazel services down the user's throats. So it's leaner for that.
A quick list of fixes can be found here at LinuxToday (http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-07-05-028-21-NW-GN), or at the Nautilus home page (http://freshmeat.net/projects/eazelnautilus/) at FreshMeat.
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