In 'legacy' software, sure.

But isn't that one of the selling points of Win8 apps that they'll run independent of resolution on phones, Win RT tablets and desktops?

Some of us are lazy to do a fresh install.

I'm still using the same HD I ripped out of a dead laptop from 2008, originally running Intrepid.

raring's KDE runs well enough that I don't care to upgrade to vanilla debian testing.

Does the PDF viewer run acceptably fast on a modern machine?

I'm running a 9yo machine and pdf.js takes forever to render. When Okular is embedded (kparts integration), it's snappy.

pdf.js might be a good choice on Windows where you have that Adobe monstrosity updating itself every few days (I have used sumatra in the past) but KDE's viewer runs faster on old Linux desktops. :-)

We had that approach back in the 90s with Metacrawler, which at the time aggregated better search results than, say, DEC's altavista.

Then Google showed up...

Privacy concerns aside, does DDG deliver 'better' search results than what caused Metacrawler to bite the dust?

Presumably they'll create an appstore and encourage porting of Qt apps from Symbian/Meego/BB10 (however few in number)

Cattle do belch methane and there have been studies to select low emission pasture.

But agreed, climate change has been written off as a vegan socialist conspiracy by various conservatives and the suggestion that we should eat meat from a science lab only fuels that belief.

On the other hand eating less beef and feasting on animals with, from the grazing perspective, a lower carbon footprint (e.g. goat curry, kangaroo steaks) mightn't be such a bad thing for the environment.

puss?

We're eating cats now?

Typing depends on the model. The keyboard on my 12" laptop (Core 2 Duo) isn't that much smaller than a full-size.

The key-width (from Tab to Enter) measures 27.5cm. On my regular keyboard, it's 28.5cmThere's no numeric keyboard, and the arrow and home/end keys are squished/missing but after gaining muscle memory, it's not an unpleasant experience - e.g. individual keys for the alphabet aren't too shrunken - less than 1mm smaller for each key.

As for the screen, I suspect your netbook is 600 pixels high, i.e. deliberate obsolescence. Most chromebooks ought nowadays come with WXGA (1280Ã--768) - where 1024x768 has been the 'standard' screen size for over a decade.

Don't equate a 4 year old atom with a crummy CPU, keyboard and screen against all small form factor machines.

End user personal desktops, sure.

But Chrome OS is targeted to corporates that have flocked to web-based intranet applications because of the reduced maintenance.

e.g. complex installation of registry settings, third party component dependencies, group policy, configuration of network resources, firewall issues, requiring a particular version of the JRE or .Net runtime on client desktops, security implications - these are all reduced if the interface is the browser.

C-x M-c M-butterfly ?

VS and Xcode dominate their respective platforms, obviously.

Eclipse grew out of a Java IDE to become something of a universal platform. The env for Java excels but 'foreign' languages not to the same level of polish. (e.g. I've tinkered with scala and jruby)

So yeah, more power to an IDE tailored to getting the fundamentals of barebones C++/KDE done well.

Can an iPad make phone calls? Does an iPad fit in a jeans pocket?

Does an iPad include developer tools to self-host development?

It's a niche and as someone with smartphone, laptop and desktop I have enough technology in my life.

Bulltish.

My local cinema still instructs people to turn off before entering.

With 'flight mode' accessible from the power menu, not disabling calls is still plain rude in 2013.

If you must be on call, sit near the exit and set it to vibrate only.

Don't they still have a network installer where it bootstraps a minimal set of packages and then asks what DE the user wants to install?

Which software depends on Wayland? I'm curious, because I can't think of any.

A backend-agnostic toolkit such as Qt will be an equal citizen on X11, Wayland, Mir, Win32, OS X, Android, Haiku. It should be possible to run the same binary on the same host selecting X11 or Wayland as a backend by loading the appropriate .so at runtime.

So at what point does such software 'depend' on Wayland?
* When a vendor statically links a binary against Wayland? - complain to the vendor, you're paying for it.
* When a remote machine doesn't include the X11 backend? - complain to the sysadmin
* When the Wayland backend supports extra 'bling' ? add the eye-candy to the X11 backend