Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Berlin Packages Released For Debian

Posted by Hemos on Friday August 31, 2001 @08:34AM from the more-fun-with-graphical-displays dept.

A reader writes: "Berlin^? testing packages for Debian are available from the Debian website and should soon be moved to unstable, according to their the Berlin consortium website." The Berlin website (which looks great, IMHO) has an excellent architecture FAQ - the Berlin vs. X is very well done.Update: 09/01 12:41 PM GMT by H : A number of people have e-mailed me about some....wonkiness...if you view the Berlin vs X page using Internet Explorer. I'd advise using something else.

1 of 349 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Interesting decisions they made by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-31 09:00 · Score: 1, Flamebait

KDE dropped Corba because their implementation sucked. It abused C++ templates which autogenerate code up the wazoo, resulting in huge ass libraries that took up too much memory.