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New KDE 3.5.5 Features 1,200 Changes
lisah writes "Just two months after its last update, KDE has released a new maintenance and bugfix update. KDE 3.5.5 boasts over 1,200 changes including speed improvements to KHTML, an update of Kopete 0.12.3, support for Adium themes, and improved support for Yahoo! and Jabber IM protocols. KDE 3.5.5 also now offers extensive support for over 65 languages. Just a day after the release of 3.5.5, developers say they are already looking toward the release of KDE4, which will include improvements in multimedia, hardware integration, and more." (Linux.com and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.)
1200 changes, including over 600 times that color was changed to colour and back again... :-)
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Practically, places like Dell and HP will charge you OEM XP price anyways, plus the extra in "removal" fees (home users requesting no os).
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
That's how M$, who has their hands in Dell's pockets, does things. If you "want" Windows, meaning you probably have a "need" because you are locked into their whole proprietary game, M$ will then make you pay an assload. If you don't care though, or especially if you *don't* want Windows, it's those people M$ wants to go after. It's just software, it's easily copyable, so M$ doesn't lose anything to someone who wouldn't have paid to begin with. The more people they can have using it though, the more the market will be proprietary in their favor, and more software will be made for it, further helping them monopolize the market. It's win-win. So, of *course* you can't buy a Dell computer without Windows. I tried on their website and you have to choose a version of Windows to get with your computer. There is "no OS" option, for people who might want to save money, or install something else, or install their own copy of Windows even. I chatted with a rep and told them I would buy my computer elsewhere or simply build it myself so that I could save money by having a free OS instead. :)
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