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Interview with David Faure of Mandrake & KDE

Posted by timothy on from the providing-us-with-free-good-stuff dept.

JigSaw writes: "OSNews features an interesting interview with David Faure, the french KDE developer who works for Mandrake Software. His code can be found on Konqueror, KFM, KWord and he is also the main bug hunter for KDE. David talks about KDE 3's enhancements and speed improvements, the future of KWord, the debugging tools under Linux, and even Gnome2, .NET, MacOSX and Mozilla."

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  1. Re:he hit the nail on the head with CUPS by garcia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I very much agree. I am pretty well versed in userland apps and setting them up (samba, etc) yet CUPS was a pain in the ass, a real big pain in the ass.

    Anytime I have to sit here and seriously think about what I have to install just is not right.

    An additional complaint is that my HP960c still prints color like all-hell. I have to print over the network from my Win98 laptop if I really want to print some sort of color page if I want it to look at all like it should.

    printtool worked wonders for my HP400 but not for this printer. Old printers aren't around anymore. We need some real support for some real printers :(

  2. Re:this is true by digitalhermit · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This is where I really see Linux taking off, is with distributions specifically made for different niches.


    This is a good point; the appeal of Linux is ultimately the ease by which it can be tailored to different audiences. This is not to say that the audience should do the tailoring, but that an interested party *could* do it. For example, I'm still looking for a distribution tailored to the needs of a student. I.e., one containing a bunch of necessary mathematics and beginning programming applications, good mp3 and DVD support, ability to talk with Macs and Windows with equal ease, good word processing tools with automatic formatting of documents for English 101, etc.. All these packages already exist, but no one actually puts them together as an integrated solution. As a result you have students trying out Linux, but having to boot back into Winders to do their research paper in a pirated copy of Word.