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Friday, April 15, 2005
Microsoft "Longhorn:" The non-unix KDE?
As you may or may not know, Microsoft has graced the public with a preview of the new windows, codenamed "Longhorn." It's supposed to be a radically new windows, with an even higher cost to your graphics card. However, as this reporter reads it, it's just KDE without Unix or X-windows.
For those of you who don't know what KDE is, it's a Graphical User Interface(GUI) that runs on a Unix operating system (Linux, BSD and variants, SunOS, NEXTstep, possibly even Mac OSX!) KDE is open-source, which means that it has infinate developers, resources, and (best of all) support. KDE can even be run on windows, whit the help of Cygwin/X. There are more GUIs availible for Unix, however, KDE is the most popular, next to Gnome, then Enlightenment. Although KDE is a "community project" anyone can contribute to, it has been given to KDE e.V, a company created just for KDE, to leagally defend the GUI.
An article from Cnet gives us a discription of the archetype build. "Document icons are no longer a hint of the type of file, but rather a small picture of the file itself," the article says. That has been a part of KDE for quite a long time now. KDE also lets you see the entire first page if you rollover it with the mouse. "Folders, too, show glimpses of what's inside." Cnet reporters apperently like to reiterate their point."Translucent windows and other graphics tricks are expected to find their way into the finished software." Still, Cnet thinks that this is new.
"If there is more than one PC in a home network, Allchin said, it will be easy to allow sharing of files and easy to get at those files. For example, a PC with Longhorn might show all the music files together, whether they are on the local PC or another machine on the network." This is one feature that KDE doesn't have, Soley because of the Unix infrastructure, whereas Windows is completely different. This would also cause further confusion if you should ever choose to leave the network, something commonly done with Notebook and Tablet PCs.
The artical continues furter saying that you can change the amount of Eye Candy enabled on your machiene. It lists two problems (although very nonchalantly) the first is that it appears to have a preset-features-only setting, so you can't choose which features you want or don't want. After all, not everyone likes mouse trails. The second problem is that the minimalist version is like the current version of windows, which will couse problems in older computers.
Although it is never good to copy other's work, at least our friend Gates has finally learned that mocking other people can make feces look like chocolate. maybe someday he will be origional!
For those of you who don't know what KDE is, it's a Graphical User Interface(GUI) that runs on a Unix operating system (Linux, BSD and variants, SunOS, NEXTstep, possibly even Mac OSX!) KDE is open-source, which means that it has infinate developers, resources, and (best of all) support. KDE can even be run on windows, whit the help of Cygwin/X. There are more GUIs availible for Unix, however, KDE is the most popular, next to Gnome, then Enlightenment. Although KDE is a "community project" anyone can contribute to, it has been given to KDE e.V, a company created just for KDE, to leagally defend the GUI.
An article from Cnet gives us a discription of the archetype build. "Document icons are no longer a hint of the type of file, but rather a small picture of the file itself," the article says. That has been a part of KDE for quite a long time now. KDE also lets you see the entire first page if you rollover it with the mouse. "Folders, too, show glimpses of what's inside." Cnet reporters apperently like to reiterate their point."Translucent windows and other graphics tricks are expected to find their way into the finished software." Still, Cnet thinks that this is new.
"If there is more than one PC in a home network, Allchin said, it will be easy to allow sharing of files and easy to get at those files. For example, a PC with Longhorn might show all the music files together, whether they are on the local PC or another machine on the network." This is one feature that KDE doesn't have, Soley because of the Unix infrastructure, whereas Windows is completely different. This would also cause further confusion if you should ever choose to leave the network, something commonly done with Notebook and Tablet PCs.
The artical continues furter saying that you can change the amount of Eye Candy enabled on your machiene. It lists two problems (although very nonchalantly) the first is that it appears to have a preset-features-only setting, so you can't choose which features you want or don't want. After all, not everyone likes mouse trails. The second problem is that the minimalist version is like the current version of windows, which will couse problems in older computers.
Although it is never good to copy other's work, at least our friend Gates has finally learned that mocking other people can make feces look like chocolate. maybe someday he will be origional!
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