On Saturday 14 August 2010 14:27:02 kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
On Friday 13 August 2010 06:23:01 pm Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote: <clip>
KDE3 was good, but a bit outdated. Better then Windows XP, but underdog for anything that came after.
This was mine, so I will answer.
And just what might that be?
vista? even ms itself gave up on it.
A bit heavy on contemporary hardware, which was main reason for mass rejection by enterprise market. Now it runs fine even with another OS, like openSUSE, in Virtual Box.
seven? wannatalk about drivers? crashes? not ported shtuff?
Drivers are the hardware vendor's problem, and there will be at any time bad designed drivers. Not ported stuff. Backward compatibility is what bloats any software and processors. While I can sympathize with pain of those that paid for something that they can't run on newer machines, keeping backward compatibility works only to some extent.
if kde3 was better than xp (assuming the xp X system), there is still little competition and it is still behind:)
The only thing that developers did wrong with KDE4 was marketing, which they are not skilled for, so I can forgive mistakes. I use KDE4 every day. I used it every day with Athlon 1500 MHz CPU and 1GB RAM. That computer was new in 2001 (9years ago). It is not snappy as new one, but it is working and it is even better now with openSUSE 11.3. I used it often with laptop that is some 5 years old, where it works nice and smooth (Athlon 64 3500+).
*anywhere* in this world number two becomes number one by first emulating number one and then going past with hard work.
Emulating gives no reference to what is emulated and how close. Then, I haven't seen much of DOS 6.12 Shell in Win 3.1, then 3.1 in Win 95 and so on till this days. So what part of emulation you refer to?
There are very few cases where a total departure from the norm went to the top right away. d.
There is no total departure from norm set with KDE3. The differences are much smaller then between fvwm and any window manager that followed it, and sincerely I remember complaints. It was time when people were grateful for gifts and if one wanted more, he/she would give some counter present first. What I see here are demands, like one has right to demand more gifts. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org