1) Order from a state which does not issue V.A.T., so you get the Laptop for the net price 2) Pay with your credit card 3) Have it delivered for pick-up from the carrier company (Fedex or UPS) 4) Add overnight service if you are in a hurry
My advise: www.outpost.com, Call them from the U.K.
Giving 2.6. a spin, Knoppix did not recognize / initialize my network card properly. It also had problem with the agp bus.
Other than that, the C't edition is a beatiful round up of what Knoppix / Linux can do for you.
The only problem which annoys me since I'm working on Linux (> 10 years) is:
FONTS!!!
You should not package an OpenOffice with an unscalale "Times"-Font and other completely unusable Fonts. This turns off newbies and people how are just interested in Linux.
So my suggestion are: ---------------------
1 Make sure that _every_ font in the system renders and works perfectly out of the box in OpenOffice, Mozilla and Printing!! If you end up having only 5 fonts available, fine. Than the user knows that she / he has to do some work and get new fonts.
2 Make it easy to install new fonts. Install fonts system wide. Users don't care about a ".fonts" directoy in the home directory.
3 Clean up every menu in the system. Give the best programs the most prominent places in the menu.
No Cancer! They have regular light bulbs switching on and off in each window of the empty building. So all the windows are the matrix.
Some REAL points
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GTK-- vs. QT
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Developing for a professional product I would always go with as many professional tools as possible.
To me QT seems to be the FAR better decision. It has true interoperablity between Win32, MacOS X and X11.
QT is C++ from the ground up, GTK-- is wrapping GTK++.
Furthermore with GTK you definitely write more code to accomplish the same.
QT 3 gives you access to SQL-databases from its widgets.
QT comes with a very good interface builder.
QT based programes feel snappier than GTK based ones.
One drawback might be that you have to preprocess (actually your Makefile has to) your code before its ready for the compiler, but that's not a big deal.
With Kdevelop you have access to a very good IDE.
One thing I don't know is how QT works in terms of different GUI threads, but I neither know for GTK.
So please, go with QT and be happy
A much harder decision would be: What should I use for my Web-Frontend, mod_perl or PHP... but that's a different story!
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1) Order from a state which does not issue V.A.T., so you get the Laptop for the net price
2) Pay with your credit card
3) Have it delivered for pick-up from the carrier company (Fedex or UPS)
4) Add overnight service if you are in a hurry
My advise: www.outpost.com, Call them from the U.K.
Giving 2.6. a spin, Knoppix did not recognize / initialize my network card properly. It also had problem with the agp bus.
Other than that, the C't edition is a beatiful round up of what Knoppix / Linux can do for you.
The only problem which annoys me since I'm working on Linux (> 10 years) is:
FONTS!!!
You should not package an OpenOffice with an unscalale "Times"-Font and other completely unusable Fonts. This turns off newbies and people how are just interested in Linux.
So my suggestion are:
---------------------
1 Make sure that _every_ font in the system renders and works perfectly out of the box in OpenOffice, Mozilla and Printing!! If you end up having only 5 fonts available, fine. Than the user knows that she / he has to do some work and get new fonts.
2 Make it easy to install new fonts. Install fonts system wide. Users don't care about a ".fonts" directoy in the home directory.
3 Clean up every menu in the system. Give the best programs the most prominent places in the menu.
All the Best,
Happy Hacking
Martin
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Yes, I'm positive. It's on my way to work.
No Cancer! They have regular light bulbs switching on and off in each window of the empty building. So all the windows are the matrix.
Developing for a professional product I would always go with as many professional tools as possible.
To me QT seems to be the FAR better decision. It has true interoperablity between Win32, MacOS X and X11.
QT is C++ from the ground up, GTK-- is wrapping GTK++.
Furthermore with GTK you definitely write more code to accomplish the same.
QT 3 gives you access to SQL-databases from its widgets.
QT comes with a very good interface builder.
QT based programes feel snappier than GTK based ones.
One drawback might be that you have to preprocess (actually your Makefile has to) your code before its ready for the compiler, but that's not a big deal.
With Kdevelop you have access to a very good IDE.
One thing I don't know is how QT works in terms of different GUI threads, but I neither know for GTK.
So please, go with QT and be happy
A much harder decision would be: What should I use for my Web-Frontend, mod_perl or PHP... but that's a different story!