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KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X

Posted by Zonk on from the strange-confluence-of-events dept.

klblastone writes "The KDE desktop environment is going cross-platform with support for the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. In addition to porting the core KDE libraries and applications, developers are also porting popular KDE-based software like the Amarok audio player and the KOffice productivity suite. New KDE binaries for Windows were released yesterday and are now available from KDE mirrors through an automated installer program. The Mac OS X port is made available via BitTorrent in universal binary format."

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  1. Will it go fully cross-platform? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ?
    Will niggers be able to use it as readily as others? THAT MAY REQUIRE QUITE A BIT OF DUMBING-DOWN, YOU KNOW.

    RON PAUL '08
    DOWN WITH NIGGERS

  2. KDE's branching out is fine and good, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...is it the best thing for the F/OSS community?

    As Linux users, we're largely insulated from non-European races, though Asian and mestizo contributions have increased in recent years. By adding Windows, we're opening up KDE for infiltration by niggers, and I just can't support that.

    Vote Ron Paul if you want this sort of thing stopped.

    Ron Paul 2008.
    It's important.

  3. Cross platform KDE by tristian_was_here · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can see why they would want to cross platform KDE + its libraries. Yet again Windows users benefit from Open Source software. We want those users on our side don't make them more comfortable. OSX users can keep what they got they are so up their own arse to use "Free Software"

  4. How long before... by rickb928 · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...we can run a Windows GUI on Linux?

    As if.

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  5. A Godsend!!!!!!! by PortHaven · · Score: 0, Troll

    For all those Vista users... ;)

  6. mod doWFn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Creek, abysmal FreeBSD at about 80 to die. I will jam obsessives and the

  7. Doesn't it stand for "Macintosh OpenStep Ten"? by tepples · · Score: 0, Troll

    So? It still doesn't make sense to compare KDE 4.0 to the very first release of an entirely new operating system.

    Mac OS X was not entirely new, especially when you consider that "OS" can stand for OpenStep.
  8. Re:So will this ... by Gewalt · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's been one in the FREE powertoys that microsoft puts out for ages... maybe since win2k... As long as most linux distros have had it, so has M$. That said, it's as useless in windows as it is in linux, and every bit as useless in osx.

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