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LarryBoy writes:
Ars Technica got to spend some time playing with a prototype Mobile Internet Device from Intel. The unit was running Mandriva Flash Edition and KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 and featured a 'double-thumbs' style keyboard, a 1024x600 touch screen, an 800MHz Celeron CPU, and a gigabyte of RAM. Responsiveness was good, but the unit really shined when used with a stylus: 'With a stylus in hand, using the touch-screen interface to control KDE 4 became a joy. For example, one of KDE 4's new applications is a desktop globe called Marble. This particular program was an ideal candidate for testing the touch screen as I was able to drag the globe around in the view port in much the same way that users of the Nintendo Wii are used to.'
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Jiilik Oiolosse writes:
Over at Ars, I have published a short review of the PC-BSD operating system, one of the first few FreeBSD derivatives to target the casual user (see also DesktopBSD).
"First and foremost, PC-BSD is an attempt to make a user-friendly Unix. Many Linux distributions have a similar focus and attempt to achieve it in different ways, and PC-BSD should be considered alongside these distributions." and "KDE seemed to load much faster on PC-BSD than I'm used to; [quite noticeably] faster than my Kubuntu installation on my other drive (which either says something bad about Kubuntu or something great about PC-BSD). In fact, the whole system felt very snappy."
