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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: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!)

  3. 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.

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

    UNIX - why reboot more often than you have sex?

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

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

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

    The darn thing won't even turn on?