A quick look at Linux events of the first half of 2008

rasat · 2008-07-12 20:41:19

DistroWatch:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue … 07#feature

dyscoria · 2008-07-12 21:24:47

I despise all the people that complain about how KDE4 doesn't live up to expectations. One person even blogged about forking the project. Aaron Seigo actually took the time to respond in the comments section, but in true internet fashion the blogger knowing he wouldn't win evaded the argument almost completely. See here: http://practical-tech.com/operating-sys … or-a-fork/ Check out the comments by aseigo and sjvn (the blogger). Quite amusing.

Also, Ubuntu vs OpenSuse ... I've always been fond of Ubuntu but Opensuse is a much improving distro and is starting to win my approval. Opensuse 11.1 I reckon is gonna be a fantastic release.

z0phi3l · 2008-07-13 00:33:55

Yep the whole "fork KDE because I choose to dislike KDE4" comes off as someone just looking to make his site look good on Google, since he never actually tries to solve any of the "issues" he seems to have, he just rants and cries about it.

rasat · 2008-07-13 07:20:34

The below comment copied from dyscoria's posted link, shows an Arch style of perspective (let the users decide instead of forcing a pre-configured default setup). About Windows 3.x, I personally liked the old concept of "windows". If I am not wrong, the old version of XFCE, in mid '90s, used the same concept.
http://practical-tech.com/operating-sys … or-a-fork/

The funny thing about KDE4 is that it is NOT really "NEW". The idea of "containers" first came out with — are you ready for this?? MICROSOFT WINDOWS 3.0, 3.1, and 3.11 Widows For Workgroups — of course they were not called "containers", they were called windows, but the idea is still essentially the same: Windows within windows, and within the windows were a group of associated applications. In the window for say Games you found all your games, in the window for Office Apps, you found all your office stuff, etc. and — just as in Plasma — the window could be shrunk down to an icon on the Desktop. I understand the the Plasma idea is a lot more advanced, but it is still essentially the Windows within a Window idea. It seems that after numerous complaints for those of us who like a standard Desktop the KDE developers came out with something called "Old Skool"… the only thing is that the "Desktop" is itself within a "container". I don't get it: For those of us who like our Desktops empty to which we can add icons that launch various apps, etc. why can't we have it like that? Why can't you ADD "Containers" to the Desktop rather than have "containers" there by default.?? What would this entail? Writing some code that says "create" or "add" container. In short when KDE came up you would have a blank Desktop that could not be shrunk to an icon; on this desktop you can add apps you can launch from as in the "Old Skool" way; OR… you can get all fancy and create "containers" to which you add all sorts of things that can then be shrunk to an icon on the Desktop. The problem is that the KDE 4 developers are trying to force feed the USERS with a radically "NEW" idea which in itself is rather OLD having its roots back in the days of M$ Windows 3.0, 3.1, and 3.11 WFW.

aardwolf · 2008-07-13 09:52:42

I saw an advertising folder in Belgium where they sold an Asus EEE PC with on it... Windows XP. No mention of any Linux version.

Are these EEE laptops with Linux succesful in other countries, even if there are XP ones? I do hope so!

Obi-Lan · 2008-07-13 14:32:05

Here one ISP offers a deal where you get Asus eeePC linux, huawei 220 3g modem and data packet for two years for ~20e/month (384kbs, with 2M connection ~40e/month).

KimTjik · 2008-07-13 16:05:24

Something I'm a bit tired to read about is this part:

Fedora, on the other hand, was the exact opposite - the distribution's first release under a new project management has been rated rather poorly by most reviewers, while it also received a major thumbs down from their KDE users.

Fedora isn't maybe my distribution of choice, but I still think it's so unfair to constantly, yes it nearly looks to be the norm, give it less credit than the other big ones. Where's the gratitude for them trying to push ahead and make future features ready for mainstream? Some other distributions "just sit there" and wait until everything is fixed and then release a custom package of others hard work, and that receives loud applauds. I don't get it. Or are reviews among the less relevant to read maybe?

Last edited by KimTjik (2008-07-13 16:06:37)

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A quick look at Linux events of the first half of 2008

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