I am using KDE 4 (latest builds) at home on my laptop and desktop. Yeah, production environment.
Q. But it's an unstable alpha right?
A. Right, a lot of the KDE4 applications crash. Never fear, for any buggy KDE4 app I simply run the equivalent KDE3 version instead.
Q. But this uses a lot of memory to have kde3,qt3,kde4 and qt4 loaded at same time right?
A. Right, but it still manages to use under 500MB and run smoothly with compositing enabled thanks to the new code and efficient toolkits (qt3 and qt4).
Q. So sure, they keep rewriting stuff and a lot of the applications are unstable. However, this doesn't mean you can't start using it now. It's a really nice desktop environment. Enjoy it now:).
A. This must be hard to setup though right? Having KDE3 one run instead if KDE4 one is buggy.
Right again but most distros shipping a KDE4 version (Opensuse, Ubuntu) do all that hard work for you. They still use the KDE3 version for anything remotely unstable. So you shouldn't get any crashes using it. If you do though, it's not hard to install the earlier version.
This is going to get picked up and achieve wide use if it's cheap enough. The mouse, GUI and ethernet: these guys know what people want.
Perfect timing for all these companies who say they want to become environmentally friendly. Same companies that go through reams of paper every day.If there's cost savings involved as well this is a no-brainer.
Gee, its 2008 already. Yet you can still search: inurl:.php form and attempt a pathetic SQL injection successfully on about 5% of your results. How pathetic. People should need a licence to write PHP/SQL.
One thing to note is that all these schools that take up linux use KDE as environment of choice. I've heard of a dozen schools and countries that use linux in the classroom now and every single one is KDE. Why not gnome? Why not something else?
I know KDE has Kiosk and some Brazilian educational software, but is that it? I think KDE tries to sell itself as an educational platform as well. But.. why not Gnome? Gnome has huge potential to be in classrooms if they make an educational suite. This would also boost linux adoption. So why not?
There is a huge take up of linux in schools now. I heard about some very large install base but forgot where.
Heck, there are even doing it here in Melbourne, Australia: http://freesoftnews.com/archives/7184 (13th April, 2008)!
Problem with those estimates is they they extrapolate linearly. I think the growth is exponentially increasing -- especially with this hunk of rubbish called vista.
However, due to the lack of support of HyperTransport 3.0 and separated power planes in Socket AM2 motherboards, AM2+ chips will be limited to the specifications of Socket AM2 (HyperTransport 2.0 at the speed of 1 GHz, one power plane for both Cores and IMC).
Surely Intel's chips have failed cores sometimes too. What do they do with theirs? Just chuck them out? They should be reselling their failed quad-cores.
Interesting: What happens if they don't have enough failed quad-cores to meet demand of tri-cores? Would they purposely disable a core that I could re-enable myself just to keep up with demand?
No,it's just if you use a medieval measurement system, you get larger sizes than if you use metric. So the large/medium one is actually larger if you live in a country (USA) that uses imperial.
Metric people buy the product based on what the size is called, not what the actual size is (they are all the same for them). Perhaps this is why all these fast food places have no 'small' and jump straight to medium and large serving sizes?
I don't think it's that important what version it ships with. You can guess it would be a pretty recent version and that they would update it when stable updates were released.
In my case, I WILL change my website for Safari. I will make sure my website breaks on Safari. And I won't give any nice warning 'Your browser is broken' like grandparent -- I'll let them figure this out.
Don't worry dave (parent), I'll make sure your browser breaks on my pages:D.
That's what you get for using an iPhone or Safari as primary browser!
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I am using KDE 4 (latest builds) at home on my laptop and desktop. Yeah, production environment.
:).
Q. But it's an unstable alpha right?
A. Right, a lot of the KDE4 applications crash. Never fear, for any buggy KDE4 app I simply run the equivalent KDE3 version instead.
Q. But this uses a lot of memory to have kde3,qt3,kde4 and qt4 loaded at same time right?
A. Right, but it still manages to use under 500MB and run smoothly with compositing enabled thanks to the new code and efficient toolkits (qt3 and qt4).
Q. So sure, they keep rewriting stuff and a lot of the applications are unstable. However, this doesn't mean you can't start using it now. It's a really nice desktop environment. Enjoy it now
A. This must be hard to setup though right? Having KDE3 one run instead if KDE4 one is buggy.
Right again but most distros shipping a KDE4 version (Opensuse, Ubuntu) do all that hard work for you. They still use the KDE3 version for anything remotely unstable. So you shouldn't get any crashes using it. If you do though, it's not hard to install the earlier version.
This is going to get picked up and achieve wide use if it's cheap enough.
The mouse, GUI and ethernet: these guys know what people want.
Perfect timing for all these companies who say they want to become environmentally friendly. Same companies that go through reams of paper every day.If there's cost savings involved as well this is a no-brainer.
Gee, its 2008 already. Yet you can still search: inurl:.php form and attempt a pathetic SQL injection successfully on about 5% of your results. How pathetic. People should need a licence to write PHP/SQL.
One thing to note is that all these schools that take up linux use KDE as environment of choice. I've heard of a dozen schools and countries that use linux in the classroom now and every single one is KDE. Why not gnome? Why not something else?
I know KDE has Kiosk and some Brazilian educational software, but is that it? I think KDE tries to sell itself as an educational platform as well. But.. why not Gnome? Gnome has huge potential to be in classrooms if they make an educational suite. This would also boost linux adoption. So why not?
There is a huge take up of linux in schools now. I heard about some very large install base but forgot where. Heck, there are even doing it here in Melbourne, Australia: http://freesoftnews.com/archives/7184 (13th April, 2008)! Problem with those estimates is they they extrapolate linearly. I think the growth is exponentially increasing -- especially with this hunk of rubbish called vista.
Next up: Microsoft's announcement: 52 million kids in Brazil, the first to try out Microsoft's new extended support version of Windows XP.
Yes, but not much:
However, due to the lack of support of HyperTransport 3.0 and separated power planes in Socket AM2 motherboards, AM2+ chips will be limited to the specifications of Socket AM2 (HyperTransport 2.0 at the speed of 1 GHz, one power plane for both Cores and IMC).
Source: Wikipedia
Surely Intel's chips have failed cores sometimes too. What do they do with theirs? Just chuck them out? They should be reselling their failed quad-cores. Interesting: What happens if they don't have enough failed quad-cores to meet demand of tri-cores? Would they purposely disable a core that I could re-enable myself just to keep up with demand?
No,it's just if you use a medieval measurement system, you get larger sizes than if you use metric. So the large/medium one is actually larger if you live in a country (USA) that uses imperial. Metric people buy the product based on what the size is called, not what the actual size is (they are all the same for them). Perhaps this is why all these fast food places have no 'small' and jump straight to medium and large serving sizes?
I don't think it's that important what version it ships with. You can guess it would be a pretty recent version and that they would update it when stable updates were released.
In my case, I WILL change my website for Safari. I will make sure my website breaks on Safari. And I won't give any nice warning 'Your browser is broken' like grandparent -- I'll let them figure this out.
:D.
Don't worry dave (parent), I'll make sure your browser breaks on my pages
That's what you get for using an iPhone or Safari as primary browser!
Konqueror on Linux From the 43 selectors 43 have passed, 0 are buggy and 0 are unsupported (Passed 578 out of 578 tests) Beats them all?