I was also at the KDE meeting, and clearly I have a different interpretation than you. Mark Shuttleworth proposed 6 month time based releases. The community hummed, not entirely convinced. Discussion has continued back and forth on the mailing lists about it, and most people seem to be mostly in favour of it. It's looking very likely that we will indeed have a 6 month release. (Personally I am for it). There is certainly no ill will against Ubuntu because of this.
There's always a need for people with a good eye for UI. I'm a KDE developer and I know that I personally do not have a good eye for such things. There is a usuability team, but they are completely swamped with work.
I'm always happy for people to make suggestions on improving the interface.
> I'll also reiterate my stance on widgets - No. Fucking. Way. Why should I minimise every app I have just to be able to see an OpenGL clock or something useless?
There's a shortcut you can hold to see the desktop widgets so that you can quickly see them.
One hypothesis of gravity is that it is an exchange of 'gravitons'. If this hypothesis is indeed correct, then it does indeed make sense to ask how these gravitons can escape a black hole. And I don't know the answer to that.
But the most commonly accepted theory is that heavy objects cause the fabric of spacetime to bend under its mass - like a heavy ball placed on rubber sheet. With this image, it is spacetime that bends so there's no meaningful question for how gravity 'escapes' from it.
And how much did you check? KDE has spent the last month or so relicensing pretty much all of its code base to dual license under the GPLv3. There still some problems etc, but that's to be expected.
It's been out for less than 6 months. These things can take a long time. I wonder how successful GPLv2 was 6 months after release?
Hmm, I do tend to do exactly that when I meet an Indian person. Discuss the caste system, Indian food, religion, etc. I can see that it can get repetitive, but people are just curious. What would be point in asking a non-Indian about the caste system? I really don't see it as a racist action or anything. People ask me about holograms when I tell them that's what I work on. It's called making conversation. Yeah it can be a bit boring to explain each time, but mostly I'm glad people are interested.
If the simulation ran at half the speed, would we notice? Probably not. So all we'd do is slow down the simulation, but then never notice the slow down.
> nor does it segment different tasks into separate processes within kernel space.
Stupid question, but isn't this what kthread is all about? ps shows a dozen or so 'processes' under kthread. Aren't these separate processes within kernel space?
> Maybe the shortest or the one that will server the widest audience
How do you decide between these two?
Say there's a short elegant proof, but it relies of previous theorems and knowledge, and there's a second long winded much longer approach but doesn't rely on much previous knowledge, how do you chose which to put?
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I was also at the KDE meeting, and clearly I have a different interpretation than you.
Mark Shuttleworth proposed 6 month time based releases. The community hummed, not entirely convinced. Discussion has continued back and forth on the mailing lists about it, and most people seem to be mostly in favour of it.
It's looking very likely that we will indeed have a 6 month release. (Personally I am for it).
There is certainly no ill will against Ubuntu because of this.
> How about getting our global problems under control on Earth before billions die from overcrowding?
Sounds like a self-solving problem.
Sure, right up until an asteroid hits us, or a some particularly nasty virus breaks out, or WW3 happens, etc.
Or report bugs/wishes on bugs.kde.org
There's always a need for people with a good eye for UI. I'm a KDE developer and I know that I personally do not have a good eye for such things. There is a usuability team, but they are completely swamped with work.
I'm always happy for people to make suggestions on improving the interface.
Well obviously. Why would people reply to a post that they agree 100% with?
We share a lot of dna with a banana - what's your point?
And "Newton's laws of motion" and "Kepler's laws of planetary motion" etc. Doubly bad to call them laws since we _know_ they are not 100% correct.
Hmm, that's a very good point. Thanks.
It should be the enginners and their bosses that should be the ones facing criminal charges.
> I'll also reiterate my stance on widgets - No. Fucking. Way. Why should I minimise every app I have just to be able to see an OpenGL clock or something useless?
There's a shortcut you can hold to see the desktop widgets so that you can quickly see them.
One hypothesis of gravity is that it is an exchange of 'gravitons'. If this hypothesis is indeed correct, then it does indeed make sense to ask how these gravitons can escape a black hole. And I don't know the answer to that.
But the most commonly accepted theory is that heavy objects cause the fabric of spacetime to bend under its mass - like a heavy ball placed on rubber sheet.
With this image, it is spacetime that bends so there's no meaningful question for how gravity 'escapes' from it.
And how much did you check? KDE has spent the last month or so relicensing pretty much all of its code base to dual license under the GPLv3. There still some problems etc, but that's to be expected.
It's been out for less than 6 months. These things can take a long time. I wonder how successful GPLv2 was 6 months after release?
Yes, because Linus represents the views of all linux programmers.
Hmm, I do tend to do exactly that when I meet an Indian person. Discuss the caste system, Indian food, religion, etc. I can see that it can get repetitive, but people are just curious. What would be point in asking a non-Indian about the caste system?
;-)
I really don't see it as a racist action or anything. People ask me about holograms when I tell them that's what I work on. It's called making conversation. Yeah it can be a bit boring to explain each time, but mostly I'm glad people are interested.
And, I gotta ask, do you worship cows?
If the simulation ran at half the speed, would we notice? Probably not. So all we'd do is slow down the simulation, but then never notice the slow down.
I think his point was more about that in 20 years time we will still be able to access ODF documents.
> nor does it segment different tasks into separate processes within kernel space.
Stupid question, but isn't this what kthread is all about? ps shows a dozen or so 'processes' under kthread. Aren't these separate processes within kernel space?
Everything you mentioned here can be done incrementally. Like you said, people are doing it. It just takes time and man power.
There's nothing that you've mentioned that requires throwing away the linux kernel or anything drastic.
> I don't program in any version of C cuz I can never type those damn square brackets [] correctly
You can't write 'because' either.
For a lot of projects, the major number indicates binary compatibility.
For example, in KDE 3, a KDE 3.0 app would run on the latest KDE 3.5.8 libraries, but not on KDE 4.
The second number indicates new API. a program written for, say, KDE 3.5 might not work on KDE 3.4 if it uses any of the new functions.
The third number is just minor patches and fixes, and shouldn't break anything.
And what about drivers? IIRC 64 bit linux supports far more hardware than windows does.
I think I remember that they are going to release a larger version. I'm holding out for an A4 size one :-)
> Maybe the shortest or the one that will server the widest audience
How do you decide between these two?
Say there's a short elegant proof, but it relies of previous theorems and knowledge, and there's a second long winded much longer approach but doesn't rely on much previous knowledge, how do you chose which to put?
Because policies aren't set in stone, and certainly should never be applied blindly to everything?
Sugar is back within the good graces, as you put it, because they are switching to GPLv3.