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KDE usage at Universities
by Sven on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @17:46

According to the Thin-client talk at akademy KDE lacks some must-haves regarding large, centrally administred installations, whereas Gnome (Sabayone) catches up.

So in order to attract more students to KDE it might be helpful to make KDE the first choice for large installations, such as Universities, and thereby attract new users/students automatically since more people would use KDE more often.

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Re: KDE usage at Universities
by kollum on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @06:33

Well, about that, at college, we have 3 rooms of 15 to 20 light clients connected to a server runing suse 9. We use them for our C and Java practice, with Kate or Nedit and Konsole or Other terminal. Konqueror is also available, but thats about all, with of course gcc and javac.

Somethin strange is that if you load a KDE session, it may become slow as hell, but if you are in a MWM (I think) it will just be fast as it can be, even when the people next to you are wailting 10 seconde to see on screen what they just entered with keyboard.

It seems for this KDE use much more network than MWM. Well, I mean when running exactly the same apps, namely Kate, Konsole and Konqui. Nothing more, but the extra KDE descktop things. Kicker ? HAL ? DCOP ?
I don't know, but there is obviously something in KDE witch use much of the network compared to a simple WM.

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