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  1. Debunking the Linux FUD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MS Dissatisfaction High, Users Consider Switching

    There is a lot of FUD going on about linux, and some of it is NOT TRUE ANYMORE! Don't believe it! If you use a "31337" distro like Debian or Slackware, then of course youre going to see the problems, but civilised ditrobutions don't!

    There is NO NEED to edit raw text files! All major distros have decent configuation utillities these days!
    There is NO DEPEDANCY hell! That only happens if you try to install a broken package using the raw rpm utillity! If you install it the proper way, EG with yast, Rpmdrake, Synaptic, redcarpet then no problems!

    Hardware dectection works flawlessly. If your having a problem your hardware is either broken or your using an out of date kernel (ie debian). Many major hardware manufacturers are working with kernel development team to get support for their hardware in linux, and the ones that don't are getting reverse engineered pretty quickly!

    X, OpenOffice, Nautilus are no longer SLOW! They have been optimized and they work at high speeds!

    The RTFM culture is dying, most distrobutions come with printed easy to understand documentation, and there are lots of quality forums and howtos out there! The Gentoo ones are a good example, as wellls as gnome-support, KDE forum, and others!

    The fact that ists hard to use isn't true either! Gnome and KDE are both freindly, you want hard? try Ratpoison or TWM! Linux is ready for joe, and all thats left now is to debunk the fud and get joe to try it! So get a knoppix iso, and start showing HOW easy linux is to all the joes and grandmas you know!

  2. Whither Magellan? by Ledge+Kindred · · Score: 5 · on Interview: Ask the KDE Developers
    I don't follow KDE development extremely closely, but it seemed to me that details about Magellan popped into sight very suddenly and vanished again nearly as quickly. Considering the power and capabilities detailed in the article linked above, this sounds like a major component to having a devastatingly powerful desktop based on KDE2, since an easy-to-use EMail client like Magellan would fulfill one of the two basic "killer apps" I imagine an average user would want from a desktop environment. (The other being a decent web browser, which KDE2 looks to also provide with Konqueror.) Is development of Magellan still on track? Can we reasonably expect it to live up to expectations? Or is this considered an "outside" application to what the core KDE2 functionality is expected to provide and therefore outside of what you can comment on?

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  3. Magellan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Interview: Ask the KDE Developers

    How much cooperation (and integration efforts) is there between the KDE 2.0 developers and the Magellan developers? I think Magellan is as exciting to KDE users as KOffice, yet we don't hear much about the former while we do get occaisional news about the latter. Secondly, does the KOffice team have any plans to become a drop-in substitute for MS Office? We are an NT shop right now but have our eyes on Linux on the desktop (already have Solaris in the server room) and this functionality is key to having our people productive cross-platform.

  4. Magellan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Interview: Ask the KDE Developers

    How much cooperation (and integration efforts) is there between the KDE 2.0 developers and the Magellan developers? I think Magellan is as exciting to KDE users as KOffice, yet we don't hear much about the former while we do get occaisional news about the latter. Secondly, does the KOffice team have any plans to become a drop-in substitute for MS Office? We are an NT shop right now but have our eyes on Linux on the desktop (already have Solaris in the server room) and this functionality is key to having our people productive cross-platform.

  5. Link requires authorization?!? by Brian+Knotts · · Score: 2 · on KDE 2.0 Technology Overview
    What's up with that?

    Even http://www.kdeforum.org/ is asking for a username/password.

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    Interested in XFMail? New XFMail home page

  6. Other KDE2 "technology" by Ledge+Kindred · · Score: 2 · on KDE 2.0 Technology Overview
    I've tried a few times to get /. to post this link to a KDEForum article on "Magellan" - KDE2's new information manager system. It's EMail, News and PIM all in one, something like a Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange/Outlook except will be GPL'd. If the article is in any way accurate and not a hoax (it looks horribly functional and I have to take with a grain of salt that a project this massive has been kept under wraps and done up by only a few people working on it...) it will be a Big Win for KDE2 and any *NIX in general that can run it.

    Magellan Overview

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  7. you must see this KDE app by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KDE Looks Ahead

    i came across this very cool link on linuxtoday it was about a once though vaporware for KDE called magellan you must see the screen shots http://www.kdeforum.org/news/Stuff/magel lan/ and read the article at http://www.kdeforum.org/news/939533 382/index_html

  8. you must see this KDE app by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KDE Looks Ahead

    i came across this very cool link on linuxtoday it was about a once though vaporware for KDE called magellan you must see the screen shots http://www.kdeforum.org/news/Stuff/magel lan/ and read the article at http://www.kdeforum.org/news/939533 382/index_html