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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.
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?
The work done to produce binaries is not done by the KDE Project, it's done by the vendors or volunteers. The KDE Project only releases source, but they mirror the binaries.
... Please note that the KDE Project makes these packages available from the KDE web site as a convenience to KDE users. The KDE Project is not responsible for these packages as they are provided by third parties..." (emphasis mine)
RedHat is much more interested in Gnome, and the RH developer who maintained the KDE packages resigned because of the modification of the KDE look & feel in RH 8.0.
Had you read the release announcement, you would have noticed the section which reads:
"Binary Packages. Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE 3.1beta2 for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community volunteers have done so.
Has your knee stopped jerking yet?
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?
May we never see th
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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