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KDE Running on Mac OS X
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."
Why the heck would somebody want to bog down their beautiful and snappy Mac OS X Tiger with a clunky thing like KDE?
Man that website sucks... Some elements dont render properly in Firefox (look at the login box on the home page) and you have to become a member just to view the screenshots...
except fink is a bad port of apt-get... I don't know what they did wrong but it seems like every time I try to do something, I have to reinstall fink. (Though they may have fixed it because I haven't used it in a while)
My upgrades never seem to work and there have been times where I've tried to install something and it just fails. I've used Debian's apt-get as well as Ubuntu's implementation of it and they both work flawlessly, I don't know what fink messed up on but it's definately not the same experience for me.
m50d says: "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."
Well, duh! I mean with the Mac's huge market-share it has price setting power. When Apple used PPC chips IBM had to convert entire countries into factories to create enough chips to satisfy demand. This resulted in overproduction and lower prices. Now that Apple uses x86 that fringe company Intel is finally making enough chips that prices can come down. Its all economies of scale really. Apple computers will always be cheaper, one of the perks of 95% market-share.
What? What's that you say?
Oh, in this universe......