Something to Really Bake Your Noodle
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| The typical fallacy about KDE 4 when people look at it is "oh look, a pretty
| desktop" and form their opinions based on that. I admit, I had the same
| thought. The Oxygen-themed icons and the widgets are indeed very pleasing
| eye-candy. But under the hood, there's a huge set of differences that could
| fundamentally change the way Linux developers code. To make sure I understand
| these changes, I called up Aaron Seigo, the lead developer of Plasma and
| asked for a basic rundown of what he and his team are doing.
|
| [...]
|
| Closer to home, there's always been the age old problem of app developers
| wringing their hands about which distribution to code for. "Red Hat? SUSE?
| Ubuntu? Mandriva? So many choices," they think, "guess we should just skip
| it." And often they do just that (completely missing whole point of the Linux
| Standard Base). When KDE 4 is in place and Plasma is more stable (likely by
| KDE 4.1), then such problems would be moot. Don't know what distro to code
| to? Then code to Plasma, and it won't matter.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-04-25-017-26-OP-DT-KE
Mandriva 2008.1 Package Manager
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| Mandriva Spring 2008.1 is no doubt a great distribution. It has good
| collection of default software, has excellent hardware detection, has
| proprietary drivers and software and an overall great out of box experience.
|
| People, including me, often complain about its Package manager. With 2008.1,
| Mandriva has greatly improved RPMDrake. Its fast, has good number of packages
| and beautifully handles dependencies.
| Lets have a little detailed look.
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http://www.lazytechguy.com/2008/04/mandriva-20081-package-manager.html
Recent:
KDE 4 rev 790000: Better stability and performance
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| This is another revision of the development version of KDE 4 environment.
| Lots of you have asked why it took me so long to publish this article. Well,
| I was just waiting for rev 790000, that’s all. I hope that your curiosity
| will be satisfied since there’s been a lot of changes to describe this time.
| I did my best.
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-4-rev-790000-better-stability-and-performance/
KDE 4.1: Visual Changelog (rev 783000)
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| You don’t always see this in the official changelogs but the KDE 4
| development is progressing in an extraordinary speed. After a deep look at
| rev 777000 we are presenting you a new visual review of changes made to KDE 4
| during the last couple of weeks.
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-41-visual-changelog-rev-783000/
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