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For those of us, who want to be more productive or rather expressive, can try ruby bindings: http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ruby/in dex.html Its still doesn't works on M$ Windows(and if you managed to compile it on Windowz, then kindly send me howto?), but is a joy to develop on Linux.Just don't forget to throw in http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinline/ , when you want to do something that really takes CPU cycles and memory. I can't really see the point of Java(yuck) bindings.Though people at KDE camp were happy, finally they can have fully functional java plugin for konqueror. bless them.

There are many good resources on the web. The standard resource is The Linux Documentation Project, or http://www.tldp.org/. Another site, which is much better than it used to be, is http://www.linux.com/. http://www.linuxjournal.com/ has many great articles to guide you through a wide variety of small projects. A great newer site with helpful articles is http://www.howtoforge.com/. For help on the desktop side, http://www.desktoplinux.com/ has many articles you may find of use. Documentation and information about KDE is, of course, available at http://www.kde.org/ and it's affiliated sites (linked from their homepage). IBM is always putting up new articles at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/ that can provide usefull information for development work under Linux. You may also find the articles on http://www.debian.org/, http://www.gentoo.org/, and http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ usefull even though the articles were written for other distros.

If you can't find what you're looking for there, you can always head over to irc.freenode.net. The #suse and #opensuse channels will be of particular interest to you. You may find #kde helpful for KDE applications. ##linux is basically a catch-all channel; we'll generally be able to field just about any question you throw at us there. If we can't, we will point you in the right direction.

Keeping up with the FOSS news can also teach you quite a bit. You already know about Slashdot. http://osnews.com/ is another very nice resource. http://www.kerneltrap.org/ is a less frequently updated site which can provide you with more advanced information. Keeping an eye on http://www.freshmeat.net/ can help you get a better feel for the various software available for Linux. And of course, with gmail you can setup alerts for Linux, KDE, etc.

If you really want to learn more about Linux, there's no better way than distro hopping. Go to http://www.vmware.com/ and download their free VMWare Server 1.0 to allow you to try out various distros without having to wipe your hard drive. This does, however, require you have a decent amount of RAM (I'd recommend at least 1 GB). Go to http://www.distrowatch.com/ for a fairly complete list of the available Linux distros, sorted by popularity.

If all these links really don't solve your problems, take yourself over to your best local bookstore and buy a book or two. The drawback of doing this, however, is that most of them will be pretty much out of date by the time they hit the shelves. On the other hand, they will give you a great foundation upon which you can build (update yourself) easily by utilizing the online resources.

Also, never forget about http://www.google.com/linux!

On the subject of Video Chat, have you tried Kopete? http://kopete.kde.org/ It's a Qt app, which is slightly annoying if you use GNOME- you have to manually change the default browser in KControl if you want to set it to use, say, Epiphany or Fire/Swiftfox. It *does* include full support for MSN video chat, though. It's a fantastically capable messenger. It has the same marmite menu-bloat that you get with all KDE applications, but it's worth spending 20 minutes or so setting it up. Of course, it's nowhere near as advanced as something like MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger. But that's to be expected. (Oh yay. I dare to praise WLM on Slashdot. How long before the anti-"bloat" trolls roll in? Some of us *like* that stuff. :P)

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KIO+Fuse+G ateway

While a little tricky to set up, this allows you to use all of the wonderful KIOSlaves inside *any* application (not just KDE apps) by mounting a gateway directory under FUSE. Want to edit a file over SSH or FTP in the GIMP without explictly copying it locally? No problem.

I don't think KDE using the native window manager and QT on a mac is close to ready yet, a number of people do seem to be working on a port for KDE 4.0, there is a small amount of information at the KDE Wiki.

amarok http://amarok.kde.org/ beats the pants off of iTunes

Or this or this?

I was considering where to donate money, and KDE is something that I use a lot, I tried to look up how to give it money.. and it was in germany or something like that.. No tax deduction there!

Or maybe I'm just confused about the whole tax thing.

http://www.kde.org/support/support.php

I found out that I didn't donate enough percentage of my money to qualify for a tax deduction anyway, It would have had to be well over 10 percent of my income to get a break larger than standard deduction.

I don't see why these so called "online OS" projects don't just use existing X infrastructure to create an easy way to access standard X windows applications and run them remotely over SSH.

You can actually get such solutions.

These are running over FreeNX which is basically a compressed X connection where the local machine pre-guesses parts of the communication to cut down lag. I've tried them and they work quite nicely over a 512K DSL. In principle dial-up should work ok too, but I haven't tried.

Notice that a Dutch provincial agency has switched its 100 desktops to running over FreeNX. They're running their own server though.

That said, I tend to disagree with your point. Part of the idea behind YouOS et.al. is that being on the same machine as everyone else makes collaborative software easier. Just think if you could painlessly set up multiuser editing on any document you were working on. Flickr shows some of the way too.

The last thing is that you can't just pop into the average internet café and fire up an X/ssh connection. Something running in most browsers would work better here. Maybe something like VNC java viewer for NX is the way to go.

What would be really nice is some sort of common protocol for collaborative programs. That way we could both run some program locally (or NX'ed into our own snoop-proof private server) and have them connect to each other when needed. Pretty sure I'll get to see that in my lifetime, but if Open Source was a bit ahead of the curve here it would be so much better for freedom.

Yah but I can develop a XHTML/CSS website to the standard, using one of the mentioned browsers (firefox, mozilla, konqueror

Konqueror doesn't support XHTML.

Considering your requested featureset, might I suggest Amarok ?

Could Inkscape be used to generate art for a videogame?

Yes. Depends on what and how you're planning to do things. The GNOME games migrated to SVG artwork quite a while back.

Another approach is to create your artwork in SVG and then render to bitmap at different sizes. This mirrors a lot of the workflow used for creating icons.

Are there any libraries to render this stuff?

As far as libraries go, there are librsvg and KSVG for a start. For other gaming needs, one can do some interesting things with SVG and XHTML in a browser with a little JavaScript sprinkled in.

actually thanks to rigorous backwards compatibility, you can be perfectly safe from productivity all the way through Vista.

"Backwards compatibility"? A lot of anti-productivity software is designed for Windows; it's not just a bunch of old DOS software.

Not that UN*X+X11 doesn't compete there.

At least Apple doesn't bundle much in the way of anti-productivity software with OS X - no Solitaire, for example.

Hey maybe someone should file an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft for bundling their browser

RFC3546, section 3.1 specifies server name indication. mod_gnutls has supported it since April of 2005. mod_ssl (bug) is waiting on OpenSSL to make support possible. Opera has supported SNI since 8.0. IE7 has since beta 2. Mozilla/NSS/Firefox is ready to go with NSS 3.1.1/Gecko 1.8.1/Firefox 2.0. Konqueror will support it in 4.0 (bug). Safari is the only major browser without support (fresh bug).

Amarok is a great music player. You can find it here. It's in Dappers repositories, just "apt-get install amarok" to install it (or some other way). It's a KDE application, but there's nothing that hinders one from running it under gnome, unless ones using an ancient machine ;)

"He was speaking "all desktops" as in "kde, gnome, enlightenment", etc. IIRC there is no version in planning at all for WinToys"

.-.-.-.-.-

You're wrong, dude! Look here:

First Day KDE 4 Multimedia Meeting:"Max Howell talked about moving to amaroK 2 and the Windows port that will come with that."

no linux distro can crank out an x64 desktop worth a flying paper sack of flaming shit.

I'll bite. My Fedora Core 4 x86-64 box works absolutely perfectly for me, and identically to the FC4 i386 box that sits next to it.

Stupid amarok devs say they won't port to Windows.

More lies, surely? Mark Kretschmann, one of the Amarok leads, recently wrote:

As one of the results of our K3M multimedia meeting in the Netherlands, your favourite media player is now called "Amarok". [some reasons] 4) Amarok is intended to be a software for all desktops, not just KDE. The capital K suggests that it's a KDE only application. [emphasis added]

Also, I like the way you show your appreciation for their work on a media player you obviously like by calling them "stupid". I'm sure it would make them feel really good about sharing their work with you.

If you're running Windows, there's Foxit Reader. It's a 1.5 MB download, uses less memory, and loads almost instantly. In about 2 years of use, I've only encountered a single PDF that it wouldn't open.

If you're not on Windows, there's xpdf, Evince, kpdf, gv, and probably a dozen others.

You come to Slashdot and complain about people with bad taste? Poor move, my man. Poor move.

Merging is only supported using the actual version numbers, not tags. Specifically, the merge command syntax requires the user to determine what version numbers are associated with what tags so as to perform the merge using the version numbers.

Not at all. You clearly have a lot of documentation reading to do, and it's pointless for me to reproduce it here, but let me at least say that you need not specify the version numbers at all, and that you haven't understood that there are SVN tags which, while simply represented by directories (Unix philosophy anyone?), are actually a snapshot of a certain revision and thus interchangeable with revision numbers. Go ahead and tag your every commit with whatever naming scheme you want if it makes you more comfortable, and use those instead.

The "copy" is referred to by SVN zealots as a "cheap copy" because it is an almost constant time operation

So making an objective observation about an O(1) copying operation makes one an SVN zealot? That's a pretty cheap shot. Are computer scientists "linked-list zealots" too when they point out that adding an entry to the beginning of those is usually O(1), and thus are objectively better at that than other data structures? I honestly don't get your aggressive tone against a technology which you don't seem to understand and has done no harm to you, yet serves many of us well. Seriously, have you even used it?

What the documentation says occurs is that links are made to the original repository area and the file deltas are recorded in the new tree. Conceptually this means that space consumption is very small being only a small growth in the size of some control files and creation of some directories. Realistically, there is a practical limit on the number of directory entries that can be made in a system. So for a very large repository containing many modules, tags and branches, then the growth rate in directory entry usage would be significant if not unsustainable.

Uh, no. Had you even once created an FSFS repository you would have noticed that in fact every transaction, no matter how large, adds exactly two (2) new files to your filesystem, one with the revision and one with the revision properties (usually just a few bytes). All the operations described in the documentation are done in the SVN virtual filesystem. When you commit changes, the revision file contains an aggregation of all the reverse deltas of the changes you made in that transaction. When you commit branches/tags, that file contains the difference in the virtual filesystem nodes described in the link. By my count, that file is usually a little over 600 bytes. I don't know the details about BDB but it's similar.

Convinced yet? No? Good! How about you try it?

The migration of a multiple-project CVS repository to SVN appears on the surface to be an unsustainable move. Ideally, the projects would be split into separate repositories if such a migration was to be performed.

Really? You should tell these guys (have a look at their repo). Or them. Or them.

The reasons to stay with CVS would be largely dictated by practical issues.

Finally, we agree. Pretty much the only meaningful reason to stay with CVS these days is backwards compatibility with tools & user training. And even those are fading, as SVN support is added to pretty much everything and it turns out it's not that different from the basic users' point of view (it is different for the more advanced users who need to tag, branch & merge, but those can learn it just as they did CVS; I'd argue that conceptually it's even simpler). Another big reason might be that they simply can't be

For about 7 years now, Red Hat has been badmouthing the Free & Open Source K Desktop Environment and the Qt framework that KDE is built on. Both KDE and Qt are licensed under the GPL, the Free Software license with the strongest copyleft/forced sharing protections that ensure the users' rights to control their own computers.

I know for a fact that Red Hat employees have embarked on a FUD campaign against KDE by spreading outright lies about its licensing. One such lie that they've been perpetuating is that thrid-party companies can't write proprietary software using Qt and KDE: this is plain wrong, because a company that wants to write proprietary software based on Qt can simply play by the proprietary rules and buy a proprietary license from Trolltech (the makers of Qt). This arrangement is only fair, and it provides a financial incentive for companies to write open source software. Furthermore, revenues from prorietary development go directly into improving the Free & Open Source Qt framework. This dual-licensing arrangement is a WIN-WIN situations for ordinary users like you and me.

Now, I'd understand if Microsoft were spreading this FUD, but for a company like Red Hat that pretends to be 100% for open source to be doing this is downright hypocritical.

So, seeing as I work at Last.fm (I founded audioscrobbler), I feel obliged to pimp my last.fm journal, which has some interesting stats (imo) about which media players are most popular, and some graphs of artist popularity. I intend to do a "google trends for music" interface after the next site update (see below).

The KDE player Amarok is getting increasingly popular, which is nice to see. I use it myself; the built in support means no plugin is required. The next version of amarok adds lots more last.fm integration too.

Coming up - we'll be running a beta test of a fairly major update to last.fm towards the end of june, and going live with the new version 1st July.

And a random stat: we currently recieve on average 104 submissions per second from audioscrobbler plugins.

Kubuntu 6.06 has also been released and is fully supported by Canonical. You can download it and order free Kubuntu CDs through Shipit.

Kubuntu features the latest version of the ever popular and advanced K Desktop Environment, which has killer apps such as the AmaroK music player, the Kaffeine movie player, the Konqueror file manager and web browser, and the KOffice suite.

Kubuntu 6.06 has also been released and is fully supported by Canonical. You can download it and order free Kubuntu CDs through Shipit.

Kubuntu features the latest version of the ever popular and advanced K Desktop Environment, which has killer apps such as the AmaroK music player, the Kaffeine movie player, the Konqueror file manager and web browser, and the KOffice suite.

What's really desirable that runs on, say, GNU/Linux but not Windows?

Nonsense. Trolltech cannot make Qt less free, according to a legal guarantee they made with KDE. http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p hp

I can't remember when was the last time I could install anything more sophisticated than a shell script without being superuser in Unix.

Well, as one example, I've done a source install of all of KDE as a normal user. It's fairly straightforward with the use of konstruct, a build system designed to handle the dependencies involved.

I have often installed newer versions of software to test in my home directory (binary versions of OpenOffice, Mozilla/Firefox, etc) as to not interfere with what I know is a working version. In the worst case, it messes up my user preferences making them not backwards compatible. That can be fixed by either removing the user preferences or restoring from backup (I back up important directories like ~/.kde).

Of course, it tends to be the open source apps, in my experience, that work best being installed on a user level (I remember back when Firefox was called Phoenix, and you just unzipped a file and dragged the program file/folder wherever you want).

In general, if you're willing to compile from source you can get nearly anything working at the user-level from your home directory.

Divide et impera (Divide & Konquer)
Or you can strip the latin off, if you want :P
For IE there's a load of options, ranging from "Never use IE" to "Switch to Firefox or Opera".

People love shinies, Flash gives them those shinies, Linux's Flash plugin is bollocks.

That's funny...Flash is one of the few things on Linux that hasn't given me grief.

That and mplayer and xine both having terrible, eye splitting guis make it a nono.

You might want to take a look at some of the flashier frontends out there, like Kaffeine and amaroK. Both of these were available in my OpenSuSE installation, and they look great and work great.

An office suite, a standards compliant browswer, maybe a simple image editor, and maybe a couple of small utility programs.

Yeah, I guess that would be worth paying for....
I mean, it's not like people are giving it away for free.

BTW: I use an editor called textpad, which is quite a pack! http://www.textpad.com/

As for pricing, $15/month for as much new stuff as I want to listen to? I've already got 20 new albums in rotation, stuff I likely wouldn't have bought before but found via the recommendation system, and really enjoy ... Ast $15/month, the amount I would have paid buying that music would have covered the fee for years.

Wow, for fifteen bucks a month plus the cost of all the newest M$ toys and software, I can stream my music to my TV where my $40/month cable subscription already pipes 30 channels of endless hours of music I already don't listen to? Fantastic! Besides that music source I don't listen to, there's plenty of online music streams these days. You know, like the internet archive and their 34,000 live concerts? Don't forget the creative commons people, who also want to promote worth while music. Why would I want to rent a source of music from the usual RIAA pigs again?

What was it that WiMP has that Amarok was lacking? Wait a minute, WiMP does not do lyrics, cover art or even wikipedia lookups?

Sarcasm off. The RIAA and Microsoft are both based on a scarcity that does not exist. The music publishers are damaged and people have routed around them. Microsoft too has been routed around. There are plenty of alternatives to both. Restricting your users while other do not is fatal. Your supposed world of plenty looks awfully limited.

We are not talking about KDE Desktop for MS Windows, since this operationg system already has a native desktop.

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a WDDM Driver. Wonder how much the SDK for that will cost.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enlightenment's is better still

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a WDDM Driver. Wonder how much the SDK for that will cost.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enlightenment's is better still

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a WDDM Driver. Wonder how much the SDK for that will cost.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enlightenment's is better still

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a WDDM Driver. Wonder how much the SDK for that will cost.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enlightenment's is better still

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a WDDM Driver. Wonder how much the SDK for that will cost.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enlightenment's is better still

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a WDDM Driver. Wonder how much the SDK for that will cost.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enlightenment's is better still

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a WDDM Driver. Wonder how much the SDK for that will cost.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enlightenment's is better still

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a WDDM Driver. Wonder how much the SDK for that will cost.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enlightenment's is better still

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a fucking WDDM Driver.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enli ghtenment's is better still, and I still routi

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a fucking WDDM Driver.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enli ghtenment's is better still, and I still routi

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a fucking WDDM Driver.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enli ghtenment's is better still, and I still routi

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a fucking WDDM Driver.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enli ghtenment's is better still, and I still routi

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a fucking WDDM Driver.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enli ghtenment's is better still, and I still routi

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a fucking WDDM Driver.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enli ghtenment's is better still, and I still routi

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a fucking WDDM Driver.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enli ghtenment's is better still, and I still routi

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a fucking WDDM Driver.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enli ghtenment's is better still, and I still routi