Re: Reflections on the new distro's
Graham Brown <[email protected]>
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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. > > > >_______________________________________________ >blug-general list >[email protected] >http://list.beijinglug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blug-general _______________________________________________ blug-general list [email protected] http://list.beijinglug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blug-general