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KDE Running on Mac OS X

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-on-the-mac dept.

GeoffP writes "AppleTalk Australia is running a story on running KDE on Mac OS X. For those that don't know, KDE is a graphical desktop environment used to access your computer's files. Finally, Mac users have a free (as in speech) approach to their filesystem."

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  1. Where the hell is my apple II and C64 desktop? by jimmydevice · · Score: 0, Funny

    Well?

  2. Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Mac users have a free (as in speech) approach to their filesystem." I just can't believe this !!!! Exactly WTF does that mean............"free approach to the filesystem" And since when did running apps like KDE on OSX start becoming news ???? The bloody news' retardness ruined my day !!!! I'm gonna sue you for mental harassment !!

  3. {app} Running on {platform} by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    {magazine} {country} is running a story on running {app} on {platform}. For those that don't know, {app} is a {category} used to {verb} your {noun}. Finally, {platform} users have a {adjective} approach to their {noun}.

    1. Re:{app} Running on {platform} by tktk · · Score: 3, Funny
      {magazine} {country} is running a story on running {app} on {platform}. For those that don't know, {app} is a {category} used to {verb} your {noun}. Finally, {platform} users have a {adjective} approach to their {noun}.

      This article is the biggest dupe I've ever seen!

    2. Re:{app} Running on {platform} by grammar+fascist · · Score: 3, Funny

      {magazine} {country} is running a story on running {app} on {platform}. For those that don't know, {app} is a {category} used to {verb} your {noun}. Finally, {platform} users have a {adjective} approach to their {noun}.

      That would be teh BESTE APRIL FOOL'S JOKE EVAR. And link to Google searches - for "app," "platform," "category," "verb," and "noun."

      That'd be WAY too clever for Slashdot - but I can dream, can't I?

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    3. Re:{app} Running on {platform} by hcdejong · · Score: 3, Funny

      In our day, we used to have to {verb} our {noun} manually, using a {obsolete device} and a hand-cranked {platform}. And we liked it that way. You {pejorative} have it too easy with your {adjective} {app}. With all this newfangled technology, {verb} is becoming a lost art.

    4. Re:{app} Running on {platform} by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      You {pejorative} have it too easy with your {adjective} {app}. With all this newfangled technology, {verb} is becoming a lost art.


      Sadly, the first thing I thought of when I read this was, "Shouldn't it be '{gerund} is becoming a lost art'?"

      AC
  4. Lower Low Coming Soon... by CaptainPinko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is this an all-time low for a slashdot article? I can't imagine how it can be beaten.

    Simple, it'll be duped shortly.

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  5. That's totally awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    BTW, in other news, you may want to check out this neat page (with pics!) where I describe how I retrofitted my Toyota Camry to be drawn by horses. The gas mileage I get now is astounding!

  6. Re:STUNNED! by nihilogos · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe it was Feynmann who said

    "That's not right. It's not even wrong"

    Some statements are so bizarre that they defy comment.

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  7. Exactly what was missing by EachLennyAPenny · · Score: 5, Funny

    AT LAST a userfriendly GUI on Apple plattforms.

    Sorry, could not resist.

  8. Damn... by Hurricane78 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... i already tought about inventing a game where the guy with the baddest "article" posted on slashdot gets the most points, but *damn*! You already won before it even began!

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  9. Introducing our new format... by NMerriam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot: News for PHB and Marketing Drones.

    Slashdot: Buzzwords arranged in an almost sensible order.

    Slashdot: Computer News for People New to Computers

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  10. Atonement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Choosing to run KDE over OS X?

    Someone must have a huge sin they're trying to atone for.

  11. Amazing! by msormune · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now you have a possibility to change your already unified and quite well designed Mac user interface with KDE! Now you have the freedom to make a really bad choice!

  12. Re:Good article by i_like_spam · · Score: 1, Funny

    The important question is....

    Is it KDE 3.5 Beta 1?

  13. Re:Erm... Why? by rlanctot · · Score: 5, Funny

    /puts on flame retardent suit

    This just in! Mac OS X users can now poke themselves in the eye with a fork. When contacted for comment, the fork manufacturers said "We got no idea why anyone would want to poke themselves in the eye with a fork, but we're all for it! Anything that increases fork sales is a plus for us. Vive la Liberte!"

  14. Yuck by catdevnull · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yikes. That's really ugly.

    Now, if someone can get Vista working on MacOS X.... (ducks and takes cover)

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    I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
    1. Re:Yuck by iphayd · · Score: 3, Funny

      We already had Vista running. We called it Jaguar, though.

  15. Re:Mouse buttons? by SpectreBinary · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Or is it just me who haven't been following anything in the Mac hardware world for years.

    Yes. All macs since the late 1980s have supported multiple button mice. All macs shipping now come with a 4 button mouse with horizontal and vertical scroller.

  16. A badoobuh doobuh doobuh doo? by GuyGizmo · · Score: 0, Funny

    A booga booga booga boo! A wooga wooga wooga woo! A guhbuh guhbuh guhbuh guh buh guh buh duhhhhhhhh! A woogle woogle wuzza woooo!! A booga booga booga boo!!

    Flaavvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

  17. Re:Erm... Why? by m50d · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ummm... If I wanted to run KDE, why would I buy a Mac? I mean I love my Powerbook, but I know the Pentium M systems are faster, cheaper, and (if my experiences are the rule not the exception) more reliable.

    If you look at any Apple thread (at least prior to the x86-switching keynote) where it comes up, you'll see 500 apple zealots saying Mac hardware is the same price, faster, and far more reliable than x86 systems, and anyone who replies denying it getting modded down as troll.

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  18. What's you hay mileage? by Rhinobird · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you get 40 furlongs to the bushel?

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  19. Re:Totally off-topic by BeanThere · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah yes, I can see why this truly is the OS for grandmothers everywhere. It's just so intuitive.

    Yes, because grandmothers frequently want to take screenshots of their OS X desktops. It comes up all the time. Why just the other day my grandmother called me up asked me how to take screenshots, she needed them for the "how to install KDE on OS X" article she was writing. How I wish that such a commonly needed feature was more intuitively accessible, but alas, Steve Jobs has failed miserably on this one - the whole Mac is unusable, why, just totally unusable. Millions of grandmothers every day boot up their Macs and just stare at the screens not knowing what to do next - the touted usability, it seems, was all just marketing.

    Etc. etc.