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KDE 3.1 Second Beta Released
desau writes "The good folks over at KDE have released the second beta of 3.1. Binary packages are available for most major distributions, save one."
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Before it even starts:
Do we really need to announce beta releases of desktop environments on Slashdot? Is that all this site is becoming?
Is a large portion of slashdot, being geeks/techies/OSS-types, and probably users of [KDE|GNOME], not interested in hearing about realeases of [KDE|GNOME]?
But...... I....... I mean.... umm..... why isn't this kuro5hin?
You poor confused bastard.
No binaries for gentoo, either.
Most people who jump on the Linux bandwagon begin with Redhat, a good number of these people aren't capable of compiling and installing the system on their own and it's simply juvenile note releasing binary packages for Redhat. Good game showing Redhat who's boss. Let's forget the fact that your denying newbies access to your latest environment and keeping them out of not only new features but bug fixes.
I think we need a few new moderation categories:
-2: Too damn whiney
-3: Oh, it's you again. Why do you visit Slashdot and post comments and do nothing but bitch. Way too fucking whiney.
-4: Just shut the fuck up will ya.
-5: You are the biggest moron that ever lived.
Taco? Can these be incorporated into the moderation system?
Its GPL, which means they have to provide the source if someone asks for it. In what what is KDE taking their ball and going home?
a ^= b; b ^= a; a ^= b;
It'd be kind of interesting to support a couple of new tags.
I'd like to see as negatives:
* Factually Inaccurate (people mark incorrect things as "Troll" or "Overrated" currently...just silly.
I'd like to see the "Offtopic" removed as a negative Slashdot moderation. I think that a lot of good conversation threads "spin off" the main thread, and that people unfortunately often get modded as "Offtopic" for material that is quite useful and refreshing.
I also think that there's a reasonable argument that "Overrated" should go. That's really what M2 is for, and having an M2-proof M1 sort of defeats the whole purpose of M2.
and as for good posts, I think that Insightful/Informative/Interesting are overly similar. They get used interchangeably. Perhaps better would be:
Remove Insightful, Informative, and Interesting. They're redundant.
Underrated should go for the same reason that Overrated should.
The following could be added:
* New Information (for posts that introduce additional facts to a story, like "I worked as an engineer at the company and...")
* Interesting. Merge of Insightful/Interesting, as the two are not distinguished between by any moderators that I've seen.
* Well-written. It would be nice to encourage good syntax on Slashdot. That's one nice thing about kuro5hin -- most users write like professional journalists. Also, there are some really nice things that people make -- relevant haikus, clever bits of story, and the occasional brilliant manifesto -- which really deserve a moderation category of their own.
Thoughts, anyone?
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Does this mean that we will finally have a stable version of Konqueror that has tabbed browsing?
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Not only are KDE not obligated to provide binaries for Redhat, KDE do not provide binaries for any distribution. The distributions provide their own binaries.
Redhat chose not to provide binaries for 3.1 beta2. So who exactly is being childish here? Certainly not KDE, and probably not even Redhat. I'd say it's you.
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Does that mean they should get a -1?
Sorry, couldn't resist. All good points, although the moderation system hasn't effectively changed since M2 was introduced, so I'm not holding my breath.
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It's a shame I just run out of mod points..
To most people, well writen means full of shit. Believe me, I have to send emails via my 'please can you put some shit in here manager'. My Manager doesn't know what the emails about but there good enough at blagging (there managed to be a manager after all) to produce a 'well written?' document.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
That's because the poor overworked KDE ports maintainers at FreeBSD haven't submitted one. You see, KDE does not create, maintain or support those binaries at their site. They only host them.
You'll also note a lack of binaries for any community developed distro or system. You won't find NetBSD, Gentoo, Debian, etc. You see, these teams don't get paid by corporations for producing broken packages for beta releases on impossible time schedules.
FreeBSD is focusing on the kde-3.1 release. Hurdles that must be overcome are producing stable packages for -current (gcc-3.2) and -stable (gcc-2.95), the occasional linuxisms that crop up, and the irrational expectation by users that packages must be flawless. Expect stable 3.1 packages to be available at the time of the official announcement or very shortly thereafter.
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I'm typing this in beta2 right now, and holy shit this is fast. My P4 2 GHz running Gentoo (freakish optimizations, check) now feels just as fast (UI-wise) as my old 750 MHz Duron running Win2K! And it (my P4, not beta2) compiles stuff a lot faster too! Beta2 only took 4 hours (kdelibs + kdebase, still building the other stuff :)
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