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Criticisms of KDE 3 Release Process
An anonymous submitter sent in a link to a recent email from the kde-devel list,
criticizing the release process. Hopefully the KDE guys can work out any problems and keep up the good work that we've seen in the past. Update: 03/10 14:20 GMT by M : One of the comments below points out that another KDE developer has made an extensive response to the original criticisms.
*KDE is dying...
It looks to me like somebody did a s/BSD/KDE on the "BSD is dying" manuscript and submitted it to the list. Finally the BSD troll has made it to the front page on Slashdot, by proxy anyway. Huzzah!
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Du to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long trm survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay like rotten meat. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BSD is dying
overall, kde is a good 'product' but i'm just too disappointed with the speed issue. i've got 384 MBs of RAM on my Pentium 450 and it's just bearable. sure it's got some nice themes and all, but even windows 98 is running faster. i'm not just talking about apps, but kde hasnt been too responsive. i have yet to try out KDE3 yet (since they arent planning on releasing it on unstable)...
mind you, i've disabled all the 'effects' to speed things up... not much help.
recently migrated to XFCE (xfwm) and i'm pretty happy about it. fluxbox is the ultimate but i still havent figured out how to dock applets and other stuff properly..
i've been totally depending on Konqueror now that it's so hard to use something else. but if you run any kde apps even in fluxbox it's going to slow everything waaay down...
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BSD isn't dying you moron, it's alive and kicking. At work we have a cluster of 3,000 BSD boxes that we use for serving up dynamic web pages. And we aren't some chump loser startup either, I work for a fortune 100 company. Also, if I'm not mistaken, Yahoo still uses BSD. So why do you mean by saying BSD is dying?? It certainly isn't where I come from. Could you please elaborate some more?? Thanks.
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The main purpose of Malda tolerating the Page Widening dude is that when posts are cast into the garbage heap of -1 moderation, the people in charge don't want any of us reading them. So Malda keeps around this little chimp called the Page Widening dude, whose job is to make sure that none of us can tolerably read those marked down comments.
If there wasn't some rogue random user doing this stuff, Malda and his little band of merry censors would need to assign somebody the task. The point is- if it's marked down below Zero, it's effectively censored on this system, no matter how grandiose and 'free speech' oriented the rhetoric from those in charge.
If they use the same 4pt font in the article that they use in their code, no wonder nothing gets fixed!!!
You can't re-code what you can't read.
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Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
In other words, the Slashcode is broken in such a way that the 95% of the people who read this site who use IE can't read -1 posts.
Way to go, Malda. You're a real pro.
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