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Linux-Mandrake best product of the year @ LWCE
Daniel Stone writes "Linux Mandrake won the best product of the year award at LinuxWorld. It's bound to be a contentious discussion about what deserves the awards-but Nick Petrely's comments speak for themselves.
Around the timeframe of Raster's early theme attempts (when he had themed the button, remember?) I sent /. a scoop about a nice hack I had done. See, I had totally, programatically themed Qt's buttons, scrollbars, menus and a few other widgets.
/. carried that?
:-)
/. covers both environments equally.
/.'s right to be unfair. It's not like /. is actually IMPORTANT, right?
m ent" (not really, but almost) and KDE's from the "equal-time-department" shows an image of fairness?
It was technically interesting (if a bit perverse), and it was totally legal.
Now, do you think
Want to know what they *did* carry? An article about Rasterman's work, and then an article about a new screenshot of Rasterman's work
Of course Rasterman's work deserved every story it got, I had lots of fun with it, but don't try telling me
Then again, it is
BTW: do you think posting each GNOME article as from the "extremely-cool-things-you-want-to-die-for-depart
My distro didn't win! Obviously it was a setup. Janet Reno should look into this!
Give me a break! Are you expecting me to believe that Mandrake OUTSPENT SuSE and Redhat in bribes? Have you thought about returning your Mandrake package, or are you more interested in pouting? Did you even try out the installation support you paid for? Grow up and learn to spell.
(I didn't know that there was a Netscape for KDE. When was that announced?)
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
Hint - if you see an "Astroturfer", you should reply to them directly instead of posting a random, worthless comment.
That is, unless this is a Linux advocacy robot posting -- I've had my suspicions.
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Business. Numbers. Money. People. Computer World.
Ha!!
The person who's bitching the loudest about people using Free Software fell for this one hook line and sinker! I guess all that self-righteousness about Debian blinded you to any form of humor.
It's called satire. Look it up in the dictionary. If you're pissed at Redhat for making money, why don't you point the blame at the GPL! After all, it's the GPL that allows people to sell GPL'd software. It's the GPL that opens up sourcecode so that other, less-enlightened, folks can use it.
If I didn't know better, I'd say you're pissed at Free Software being Free! IF YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE USING YOUR CODE, DON'T MAKE IT FREE!!!
Wipe that egg off your face. It looks silly.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
It can even be said that the web is really about text, which Lynx handles beautifully. But people who say that probably prefer reading books to watching TV, and are thus obviously crazy, and their opinions should be discounted.
(Sarcasm: OFF) I will admit that Lynx doesn't fit every situation. Online banking is one example. For these few purposes we can fire up some bloatware like Netscape. But Lynx is great for a general purpose browser.
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What Slashdot shamelessly tried to ignore on its front page:
The significance of the Linuxworld Editors' Choice Awards lies not so much in that Mandrake won product of the year, but in that KDE and Qt swept all relevant award categories:
1. Product of the year.
Both Mandrake 6.0 and the runner-up Caldera 2.2 put heavy emphasis on KDE; Caldera's installation lizard is built with Qt (with help from Troll Tech). So KDE/Qt win both 1st and second place;
2. Distribution/Server.
Mandrake wins again! (OK, this award has less to do with KDE directly but still, the term `Mandrake' inextricably invokes KDE);
3. Distribution/Client.
This time Caldera 2.2 wins with Mandrake second! Again, not directly related to KDE but see 2 above; a KDE-oriented distribution wins both places;
4. Desktop Environment.
Winner: KDE 1.1.1
Runner-up: GNOME 1.0.9/Enlightenment 0.15
Need we say more? Well, as a matter of fact, yes:
"KDE is what Microsoft's Active Desktop should have been. It has all the power of Active Desktop and much more -- but without the inconsistencies and instability of Windows 98. KDE 1.1.1 is unsurpassed for simplicity and ease of use. And while it isn't the fastest desktop
available, it's no slouch in the speed category, either. "
5. Programming Library/Tools
Winner: Qt 2.0
"Qt 2.0: Qt 2.0 is a library of functions and widgets for creating intuitive, easy-to-use applications. The strength of Qt 2.0 is in how much it simplifies the task of programming graphical applications for Linux. The KDE desktop was built using Qt 1.4. Qt 2.0 adds several new classes and extends the flexibility of the libraries. GTK is the primary competitor to Qt, and although GTK is an excellent library that is arguably more flexible than Qt in some respects, Qt has by far the more elegant object-oriented library of classes. Qt excels because it is a more abstract class library than GTK, which minimizes the amount of work the programmer must do in order to write applications."
6. Productivity Application/Suite
Winner: StarOffice 5.1
Runner-up: WordPerfect 8
Neither of these awards are directly related to KDE, but StarOffice is well-known for being KDE-compliant, and the makers of WordPerfect 8 for Linux are making a KDE(and Debian)-based distro!
The significance of this should be obvious to any reporter worth his salt. If GNOME (which I wish all success) had had a similar day at the awards I am sure Slashdot would have been quick to point the obvious significance on the front page!. In this case, however, Slashdot shamelessly ignores this on its front page. I cannot help but think that the KDE/Qt success may have deterred a front page story listing the awards. Too bad: I thought that we had matured past these kinds of slights.
I can't speak to the Debian installation, not having done one recently, but I choose Caldera whenever (a) the machine already has Windows and has to be dual bootable and/or (b) when someone with little unix/linux experience is going to be administering it. I think my 4-year-old could handle the install (especially if it's not going to be a dual-boot system) and the Caldera COAS stuff makes routine admin pretty easy.
(I use SuSE at home, though.)
-- Alastair
Perhaps the slashdot maintainers would care to comment on this. Censoring what the Open Source community reads to further a personal agenda isn't what I'd expect from (presumably) intelligent adults.