On core 2 duo 1.7, but it's not the issue here probably. Some graphic cards perform really bad on linux, there were versions of graphics drivers that was buggy and slow, I've had issues with my nvidia chipset cause nvidia don't gave a frakk 'bout quality of their drivers for linux... So yes there was significant (and probably still are on the newer chips) performance issues but they have nothing to do with KDE nor Qt itself. And as I previously said there was significant performance boost from Qt4 itself (you can check troll's benchmarks if you want), so it should be noticeable. Also I've noticed that Kubuntu tends to have more issues (at least 4.2 had) than others, I recommend openSUSE, it have great support for KDE (traditionally).

Yes, I mostly agree, they should IMHO do it like: 4.0 pre-alpha devel preview, 4.1 alpha, 4.2 beta, 4.3 RC. I don't miss any feature of the KDE3, and since 4.2 it's less and less buggy, but remember it's community effort, so the more you give the more you get :) I e.g. always report bugs and try to patch them when I can. Anyway I think this was bold and necessary move to rewrite the codebase and we all will see effects soon in 4.3 and 4.4, cause now KDE4 is beginning to show it's potential, after all the major deep-in-the-libraries work has been done :D btw I use 4.3beta2 and it's frakkin' great ;)

KDE4 is ~30% faster than KDE3, mainly because of the Qt4 vs. Qt3 improvements and vast redesign of the KDE itself...

Sun SPARC anyone? http://www.sun.com/processors/opensparc/

Consider teaching both. I'm a student and I've used VHDL in first semester and Verilog in second (a project). I've found very good book for students/beginners and it was fun to learn it with it, the book was Digital design and computer architecture By David Money Harris, Sarah L. Harris. http://books.google.com/books?id=5X7JV5-n0FIC&dq=digital+design+and+computer+architecture+solutions&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=T-EjSqP3NoWNjAe53b2rBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4

Who are you to decide what's moral? Morality isn't universal, it's subjective.

Wrong. TPB is "database of pointers" to the actual data/content. It IS a big difference.

It's over 9000!!! Here, fixed it for ya.

I'll give it a try, but I'm really suspicious about "objective" "third-party" analyses, if you know what I mean ;)

Let's hope this is how things are, but I wouldn't count on it. AFAIK with it's cpu-power, they can be using it right now to crack some encryption known as "secure". It doesn't have to be DDNS for starters...

You mean found and patched vulnerabilities, right? So which system is now more vulnerable? Think...

Good luck...

Read the license.

and send nukes, just to be sure... Yeah, like you Americans don't have spammers, malware creators and hackers... wake up! East isn't responsible for _your_ _American_ corporations with they cheese like crippleware. Firewall yourself from the internet, cut the cable, you'll be 100% sure! Windows was never ready for the internet anyway...