International OSS Desktop Conference aKademy 2004

Torsten Rahn writes "The KDE Project is pleased to announce the successful completion of the KDE Community World Summit ("aKademy 2004") in Ludwigsburg (Germany) taking place from August 20th to 29th. With more than 230 KDE core developers, usability and accessibility experts, translators, editors and artists participating, the event is expected to have a huge and lasting impact on the next major releases of the leading Linux and Unix desktop environment. In addition, 270 visitors from the KDE user base and from other Free Software projects brought the total number of attendees to 500. The international participants, coming from 5 continents, took part in 65 talks, 10 full-day tutorials and numerous BoF-meetings over the course of 10 days. Thanks to this huge turnout and the numerous activities, the event evolved into the largest conference ever held that focused on a single open source desktop environment."

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Re:neat

[NanoGator]

"so your a stupid fuck that can't think themselves out of a problem?"

Heh. What am I supposed to do, clench my fists, bang my chest, and defend myself? Maybe I just don't want to deal with it. Maybe I just don't think that being able to compile a program is a bug f'ng deal. Maybe I just don't think that I should have to sift through Google to figure out how to edit the .CONF file to make my dual monitor configuration work. Maybe I'm just a dumb fuck that feels that the time I'd gain with stability shouldn't be spent having to look stuff up that I didn't need to on my Windows boxes.

You can call me stupid or whatever, but that doesn't excuse programmers from writing stuff that is a pain in the ass to use.

"does that mean you were using the command line or there pretty GUI? cause if you can run mac from a command line, you can run Linux."

I never needed to touch the command line. Apple was kind enough to automate where it could and ask simple questions with easy to determine choices. For example, I set up my cousin's Airport. As soon as it was plugged in on the network, his laptop popped up a message saying "would you like to talk with this?" Moments later I was up and running, *with* encryption and everything all set up. I never had to read a manual. I never had to look up anything. I didn't even have to deal with some of the silly things that Windows requires when setting up a wireless router.

"if you are talking about the GUI, then try to remember LINUX IS NOT THE GUI."

Don't bother calling anybody a fucktard if you're going to be so nitpicky to make a non-point. The only way Linux is going to be a success on the desktop is if the GUI for it is useful. Divorcing Linux from the GUI isn't making me any more of a fucktard, but it is showing your lack of perspective on what I said. Only on Slashdot would I get flamed for saying "I hope they make improvements so I don't have to work as hard to use a computer."