Re: Reflections on the new distro's

Graham Brown <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.beijing
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I saw an interesting KDE piece via /. this morning.

http://www.lugod.org/presentations/kde-user-persp/

It presents, via a series of screenshots, features of the KDE environment 
that many of us never get to or are simply unaware of.

Worth a look, even if just to see how far the desktop has come.

At 01:47 PM 12/04/2004 +0800, you wrote:
>To get back to Linux, I was reading a small preview of Fedora Core 2,
>Test 2 over at fedoranews.org.
>
>It seems these new distro's are really going to be something great.  And
>I don't just mean an expansion of cool ideas like "Laptop Mode" kernel
>parameters that were introduced in FC1.
>
>FC2,T2 is not only using 2.6 kernel and 2.6 GNOME, but also the x.org
>server and is not using XFree86 anymore - as many distro's have chosen
>to do so (re: licensing issues).
>
>As kernel 2.6 is introducing standard and stable ACPI now, and GNOME is
>maturing (apparently 2.4 -> 2.6 is a big leap), (alas the new Ximian
>Evolution did not make it in) as is Open office (the review points to
>new icons and tool bars like what star office has).
>
>I mean this is just a FC/RH perspective.  Does anybody else have any
>juicy tidbits from their favourite distro?
>
>Cya,
>RF.
>
>
>
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