> GNOME also seems to have somewhat more corperate backing (Sun, IBM, Redhat, Novel) compared to KDE.
The same Novell which with SUSE employs the most KDE developers paid by a single company?:-) The same Sun laying off GNOME developers recently? The same IBM sponsoring KDE hardware and events?
1) Not everything is under GPL (neither other Open Source licenses). SUSE includes software under proprietary licenses (which will be missing in the FTP version). 2) Sources where required are available at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.2/suse/src/ 3) Read the GPL, it's not about giving you something for free.
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If you didn't grab the Kubuntu installation media then this wiki page explains how to install KDE on Ubuntu.
The Register: "Sun burns Solaris and Linux staffers"
You really think that GNOME will ever include/ship Mono (and therewith Beagle)?
At OSdir.com
> GNOME also seems to have somewhat more corperate backing (Sun, IBM, Redhat, Novel) compared to KDE.
:-) The same Sun laying off GNOME developers recently? The same IBM sponsoring KDE hardware and events?
The same Novell which with SUSE employs the most KDE developers paid by a single company?
> Hula and several other new applications were all being announced for Gnome.
Hula has absolutely nothing specific to GNOME.
It seems to be based on the Ubuntu Live-CD.
> the Gnome devs thought it was a good idea not to have a menu editor
:-)
Use kmenuedit.
2) For OOo/KDE binary see http://dot.kde.org/1101482981/
> Anyways, Qt 4 is going to be a magnitude slower than Qt 3.
Care to explain why? Facts, not opinions or FUD please.
Don't forget that it costs a lot of money to develop Qt with this quality.
> Does the improvements to Qt include totally ignoring backwards compatability
You can compile in compatibility mode, there is a porting tool in work, and there is also a Qt 3 compability lib for now obsolete classes.
> I looking forward to KDE 4, when once again we all get to load yet another multi-megabyte Qt library
Qt 4 is broken down into smaller libraries: libQtCore (1,1MB), libQtGUI (4,5MB), lib Qt Network (0.2 MB), lib QtOpenGL (0.15 MB), libQtSQL (0.2MB), libQtXML (0.3 MB) and optional libQt3Compat (3 MB)
Small capitalized "open source"? You get the source when you buy it. About "Open Source", only the Window low-level parts are not available under GPL.
An update of the book for Qt 4 is in work according to the documentation pages, let's hope it again includes a non-commercial version.
Read the link. The native win32 port doesn't require Cygwin.
KDE 3.3 was *not* a bugfix release. And the "too new" argument is also bogus.
It mostly looks like KDE 3.3 but with Plastik as default style and window decoration.
For example this document.
Fedora Core 3 ships with KDE and GNOME integrated OpenOffice.org 1.1.2.
There will be never a native GNOME OOo or KDE OOo - but better integration possibilities are being worked on for OOo 2.0.
Download OOo_1.1.3-kde_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
1) Not everything is under GPL (neither other Open Source licenses). SUSE includes software under proprietary licenses (which will be missing in the FTP version).) Read the GPL, it's not about giving you something for free.
2) Sources where required are available at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.2/suse/src/
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What does your posting answer? I'm not interested in the current state but this "more on that".
What will the KDE Support of Ubuntu will look like once it's more sophisticated?
The screenshots show the modified and tweaked desktops of Fedora and Conectiva, not vanilla GNOME or KDE desktops.