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Testing the KDE 4.2 Release Candidate, On Windows

Posted by timothy on from the pleasant-stroll-through-the-shooting-range dept.

Verunks writes "Ars takes the KDE 4.2 release candidate out for a test drive on Windows. The popular open source desktop environment has moved beyond Linux and is becoming increasingly robust on other platforms. Even KDE's Plasma desktop shell is now Windows-compatible."

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  1. Re:Sounds Great! by InsertWittyNameHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes! You can hit Alt+F4, shutdown, reboot in a Unix-like OS, then hit F4 again. Easy as pie.

  2. Re:Sounds Great! by ByOhTek · · Score: 3, Funny

    None of my windows machines have had a BSoD in years!

    I want my money back.

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  3. Re:Sounds Great! by xgr3gx · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's that thing you have to do when something gets updated.
    Web server...no that's not it.
    Desktop environment... no.
    Oh - X11! Wait, no.
    Uuuuh. Why do we reboot?
    Oh yeah, installing new hardware! Sometimes you have to power down for that!
    Oh, and every year when I update my kernel, whether I need to or not.

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  4. Re:Fixed it for you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please post a link to the bug report that you filed so that I can help triage it. Thanks.

    No. If your desktop environment wasn't tested on HIS computer under HIS operating system with HIS libraries, you failed. I mean, you could've stopped by his apartment all last week! He was available then! You have no excuse for this complete laziness.

    (laugh, it's funny!)

  5. EU by CSHARP123 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next step for EU to dictate MS to stop integrating Windowing interface with the OS and provide a way for users to choose which Windowing they are going to use. WOW. This is going to be great.

  6. Re:Sounds Great! by wisty · · Score: 5, Funny

    UNIX - why reboot more often than you have sex?

  7. KDE on WINDOWS! by kellyb9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't that a little bit like testing out a corvette in a driveway?

  8. Re:Sounds Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The darn thing won't even turn on?

  9. Re:Sounds Great! by horza · · Score: 3, Funny

    The main reason I usually have for rebooting is moving house. The car journey lasts longer than the UPS.

    Phillip.

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  10. Re:Sounds Great! by Fred_A · · Score: 3, Funny

    Konsole is not yet ported. Which makes me very sad since I switched to Windows 7 until KDE 4 stops being the trainwreck that it is, [ ... ]

    This has to be one of the most bizarre comments I've ever read in here (and that's quite something).

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