Last year about this time, everyone was excited about a distro called Cobind Linux. The folks behind it were developing two promising tools on top of the Fedora Core 2 packages. The first tool, YumGui, was a tool similar to synaptic that Debian users have known for years. The second tools was a graphical tool that you could license to create your own custom distro to meet specific needs within an enterprise.

Will Cobind go to the Fedora Legacy project?

I still believe that it is a great use of XFCE and Nautilus that no one else has used. Gnome seems to be falling out of favor with developers. Personally, I still think KDE is setting itself up for future problems with the all-in-one tool Konqueror. Windows did that and they are still rooting out security issues. In any case, I recently found a XFCE mod that makes it behave like Mac OS X (lost the link). I think a comibination of XFCE with this Mod would be a great desktop platform for lower end machines.

I just hope that Ubuntu doesn’t end up this way. I also hope that PC-BSD will pick up as well. I am personally quite interested in PC-BSD, and if I had any money, I’d send it along.

Besides, my friends in the know are aware that I’ve always dreamed of an OpenBSD or MirBSD desktop.