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KDE 4.5 Released 302

An anonymous reader writes "KDE 4.5.0 has been released to the world. See the release announcement for details. Highlights include a Webkit browser rendering option for Konqueror, a new caching mechanism for a faster experience and a re-worked notification system. Another new feature is Perl bindings, in addition to Python, Ruby and JavaScript support. The Phonon multimedia library now integrates with PulseAudio. See this interview with KDE developer and spokesperson Sebastian Kugler on how KDE can continue to be innovative in the KDE4 age. Packages should be available for most Linux distributions in the coming days. More than 16000 bug fixes were committed since 4.4."

Comment Re:Games? (Score 2, Informative) 427

The answer is: Yes. I raid 25/10's under wine with no problem. Most games I've tried work just fine.

Heck, even ~80% of the steam games I've tried have worked without any tweaking needed.

Comment Re:lithium chloride or sodium chloride? (Score 2, Informative) 445

Chemist who works with LiCl reporting in (Specifically LiCl enhanced potentiometric buffers).

I won't be using it in my house for a simple reason: If that "membrane" gets punctured you're going to have one hell of a cleanup cost. I won't even go into the aerosolized effects. Check out any SDS.

Comment Re:Limey (Score 1) 302

Actually I *DO* have to use Facebook as a normal course of work. The engineering group in my company (a fortune 500 chemicals company) has been using facebook for years to maintain contacts and disseminate non-critical information.

So yea, I have to use Facebook, but I try to keep it a professional relationship. Still doesn't mean I like being sold off like cattle whenever they want to make more money.

Submission + - European Commission Betrays Open Standards (computerworlduk.com) 2

Glyn Moody writes: The final version [.pdf] of the important Digital Agenda for Europe has been leaked – and shows that the European Commission has betrayed open standards. Where an earlier draft [.doc] had an entire section headed “Open Standards and Interoperability”, the latest version only uses the word “open” once in the corresponding section “Interoperability and standards.” It also contains nonsense like this: “Every IT product or service relies on one or more standards. Interoperability between these standards is the only way to make our lives and doing business easier – smoothing the way to a truly digital society.” But it's not interoperability *between* standards that is important – that's just engineering – but interoperability between *implementations* of a given standard: that's where the battles are, as the history of HTML and ODF has shown. So, are they fools or knaves?
Linux

Submission + - Fedora 13: Plain But Powerful (itworld.com)

JimLynch writes: The differences between Linux distributions these days are often so minute, there seems little reason to even review them anymore. After all, one distro running GNOME 2.30 or KDE 4.4 is going to look very much like any other distro running the same interfaces. The interfaces will be nearly identical — all that remains different are underlying administration tools and a few variant choices on the apps that are included.

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