Adopt a KDE Geek

sultanoslack writes "In an effort to bring together KDE hackers that are students, unemployed or by other means lacking in hardware and capital with users in that have spare goodies, Adopt-a-Geek has been launched. More details are available on how to help out. Been wondering what you can do to help out? Here's your chance!"

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A little more information

[Anonymous Coward]

From the Relevant Page:

KDE developers put their computers through a lot of work. Building KDE on my modern desktop (1.4 GHz Athlon, 512 MB RAM) takes 6-8 hours. Many developers are working on systems which cannot fully build KDE in under 24 hours, and many KDE developers do so several times a week. Profiling and debugging tools for optimizing code are very processor and memory intensive. Hardware often is a bottleneck to KDE developers' productivity.

So keep this in mind before you ask why they're requesting this. Thanks :).

Re:A little more information

[oliverthered]

? you may have to relink I suppose or are the core API's/interfaces getting changed on an ad-hoc bases?

I can compile core.c and is turns into core.o
I can compile fish.c that depends on core.h compiles to fish.o
I link fish.o that depends on core.o

If I change core.h (an API change) then I must recompile fish.c
If I chnage core.c then I only need to relink fish.o against core.o

If i use dynamic libraries then I don't need to relink atall.

Changes to core.h should be in the form of, 'Right lads, were changing the API, get you design and documentation heads on'

Re:Is that kind of like "Hire a Hermit?"

[Suchetha]

a (rich) couple in britain actually put an ad to hire a hermit in november.. one of the articles about it is here

Suchetha

Know how to ask...

[e8johan]

If you know how to ask you can quite easily get ahold of most hardware (except HDDs) from technology companies. As long as you can live with 1-2 years old hardware and some DIY to set things up, you can get most for free.