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In related news: NLUUG 2001
by Stonehead on Monday 12/Nov/2001, @03:36
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(Grmbl. Because of the presence of the file upload field in the reply submit form, Lynx doesn't work and I had to type this all over again.. :( )
Last Thursday, I attended the annual Dutch Unix Users Group (NLUUG) conference, themed "Unix and the desktop". (The www.nluug.nl website is offline because it was defaced this weekend, using an old sshd hole.)
Highlight speakers were Jordan Hubbard (FreeBSD / Darwin lead developer) and Brett Halle of Apple. They had very interesting speeches, and indeed did they piss of their public as they announced, because they stated that Unix is not suited for the desktop. (With the notable exception of Mac OS X, of course.) Jordan Hubbard gave several reasons for this, among them that X sucks, the idea of separating the 'root' user is not enough and that there are too little protocols.
It became even more interesting when Martin Konold stepped up from the public, to tell Hubbard that these problems had already been solved in KDE for years. It was a shame that Jordan Hubbard called off a real discussion!
Anyway, I was at Martin's talk later in the afternoon as well. It was a presentation about KOffice, Konqueror and lots of other KDE desktop ideas. Main point: Mac OS X might be great for grandma's desktop, but KDE is much more suitable for enterprise use. You decide which one is more useful.
If you read this, Martin, many thanks for your talk! I'm not yet a KDE developer, but I hope once to give some code in return! :) |
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