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"KDE is an international free software community" -- Yes, well, when I install Linux it asks me whether I want a Gnome or a KDE desktop. Never thought I was choosing between two "international free software communities"
WTF? Obviously Plasma Desktop is a KDE desktop because it is a desktop by KDE.
If your distribution calls the desktop simply "KDE" then your distribution is simply wrong: http://kde.org/community/whatiskde/
http://kde.org/workspaces/plasmadesktop/
I use Linux daily. Fine system except for pulseaudio. Are there any full-featured desktop distros that don't depend on that terrible sound server? Can someone with weak linux fu (me) recompile gnome and all the apps to go back to ALSA?
GNOME and GNOME apps depend on PulseAudio.
In KDE land PulseAudio is optional thanks to the Phonon playback stack and multiple possible back-ends. I use Plasma Desktop, Phonon-VLC, and pure ALSA. I have no sound problems at all.
Both KDE and Gnome are hardware-intensive desktops. There is a reason why Canonical switched to Unity. A KDE powered tablet? With KDE on a diet, maybe.
As others already explained, KDE is not a desktop or even the name of software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE
As for your diet remark: http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.6/platform.php (from 1.5 years ago)
Is Kmail1 still being developed? I loved classic Kmail but I've been limping along for months with the badly broken Akonadi based Kmail I got whacked with in a surprise Kubuntu release, long before it was ready.
No, KMail 1 is dead.
The code is obviously still in SVN. As for Kubuntu: You became a victim of Canonical's KDE sabotage. I suggest you switch to openSUSE, enable the KDE Release 4.8 repository and retry KMail 4.8.
Hopefully it won't have kmail2...
No, it won't. KMail2 was actually never released. Only an alpha version shipped along K Desktop Environment 1.1 ever saw the light of day: http://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog1_0to1_1.php
After that the KDE community continued to develop KMail 1.x until they eventually shipped KMail 4.6 -- the current release is KMail 4.8.
Amarok or Clementine?
Clementine is not a KDE product. It was forked from KDE code (Amarok 1.4) but Clementine is independent.
Amarok is a KDE music player, Juk is another, and Bangarang is a multi-purpose media player that also plays and manages music.
Please adopt KDE as the Ubuntu UI. Thanks. Please don't listen to the troll-lets and haters. KDE has a future because KDE doesn't despise its users and their wishes.
God, please no. Canonical did enough damage in the time Kubuntu was officially "supported" -- meaning sabotaged to get an inferior experience to openSUSE, Pardus, etc.
Kubuntu had its best release with the two developers assigned to other tasks and a handful of community members doing the work. Now with Blue Systems leading Kubuntu there might be a positive change in quality but let's see until 12.10.
January 29 The Spark Tablet was announced (later renamed to Vivaldi). Two months it was supposed to be on the market. Now, it's 2 months after that and it still isn't shipping...
I want the tablet, but hell if I know when I'll be able to buy one.
Nobody really needs the Vivaldi tablet. It is just off-the-shelf hardware with Linux and Plasma Active installed. Plasma Active is *not* vaporware. Two major versions were already released with the third major release planed to coincide with KDE Platform 4.9 to no longer rely on Platform 4.8 + patches. KP 4.9 is set for release in August: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/KDE-SC-4-9-coming-in-August-1445350.html
You can get eg. an Acer Iconia W500 and install a regular Linux distribution with Plasma Active on it right now. Packages exist for openSUSE and AFAIK Kubuntu. Probably also other distributions but I am not aware of them.
Excepting the Flash player and PDF reader inclusion, reader what is the difference between the two browsers?
How can we know? As Chrome is not FOSS, it's pretty hard to do a diff between Chrome and Chromium.
what on earth does lightweight mean ?
It means that Calligra can run on smartphones while LO cannot.
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