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We had KDE here last year
by Hisham Muhammad on Monday 09/Jun/2003, @16:36

In last year's Free Software Forum, KDE's Ralf Noldem was here in Porto Alegre, and all machines had KDE running by default. To me it was apparent that GNOME was chosen this year because Miguel de Icaza was here.

Speaking of Miguel de Icaza, I talked briefly to him and he seemed to be a nice guy. I also took the oportunity to hand him a GoboLinux CD :)

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Re: We had KDE here last year
by Helio Chissini de Castro on Monday 09/Jun/2003, @16:54

A have to agree at some point with you, but we're talking not just about the conference, but about all Brazilian Government choices.
Politics is a bit more delicated than just installed desktops.

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Nice
by Alex on Monday 09/Jun/2003, @23:04

I like this kind of stuff =) hope to see more of it in the future =)

It's odd that Miguel would be arrogant to Helio, ater all he said KDE was bette rin some areas than GNOME.

I do think that Helio should of gotten a good 1 GHZ+ 512 DDR laptop, 300 MGZ just isnt a good demonstration machine.

Also, i've seen Thiago check lots of my bug reports just minutes after I submit them, hes really fast and a great help to the KDE community as I'm sure Helio is too.

What bothers me a little though is that I don't think really have a KDE god, a leader that is synnonymous with KDE like Miguel and havoc are with GNOME. Matthias or Aaron maybe I don't really know, there need to be more developer interviews to make KDE devs really popular so everyone knows and doesen't think KDE has no direction.

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Re: Nice
by eru on Tuesday 10/Jun/2003, @00:54

>What bothers me a little though is that I don't think really have a KDE god,

For me, I find it reassuring. "Gods" are easier to dislike or attack,
or FUD about. Not so long ago, everyone advocating Linux heard at
one point a question like "what happens if Linus is run over by a bus, or
just gets bored of Linux?" from the skeptics.

>I do think that Helio should of gotten a good 1 GHZ+ 512 DDR laptop, 300 MGZ
> just isnt a good demonstration machine.

Remember, he made a point of proving KDE works also on older machines.
(Helio' demo machine is actually twice as fast as what I have at home,
which does run KDE, but a bit slowly. I really wish KDE gurus could optimize
things a bit.)

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Re: Nice
by Alex on Tuesday 10/Jun/2003, @07:39

WOW I can't imagine running KDE on something that slow, I thought 400 MGZ was the minimum.

Anyway, i thought since he was teh "demo dude" that he would get a blazing fast machine to show KDE at its best.

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Re: Nice
by protoman on Saturday 14/Jun/2003, @18:18

I run KDE 3.1.2 on a pentium 233 MMX with 64 RAM.
If I had more ram it would run fine, it dosen't need that much processing power.
That's why I can't understand people buying machines with high processors and less than 512 ram... makes no sense!

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Re: Nice
by AC on Tuesday 10/Jun/2003, @08:03

>>What bothers me a little though is that I don't think really have a KDE god, a leader that is synnonymous with KDE like Miguel and havoc are with GNOME.<<

Hmm.. and what happens to Gnome when Ximian runs out of money, or the god decides to spent the rest of his live with Mono, or Apple hires him?

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Re: Nice
by jdub on Tuesday 10/Jun/2003, @09:52

Ximian does not do the lion's share of GNOME development, so whilst they would be sorely missed if they went out of business, it wouldn't destroy GNOME. Not by a long shot. Additionally, Miguel *is* spending his life with Mono. He is no longer involved in GNOME at a technical level at all. :-)

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Re: Nice
by Anonymous on Tuesday 10/Jun/2003, @10:28

Shouldn't you release the overdue next GNOME snapshot and update Garnome instead of reading the dot? :-)

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Re: Nice
by Sergio Garcia on Tuesday 10/Jun/2003, @12:07

> What bothers me a little though is that I don't think really have a KDE god, a
> leader that is synnonymous with KDE like Miguel and havoc are with GNOME.

Maybe not, but we are still supporting David Faure for president.

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