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CBS Hosts Ad-Funded TV Series, Incl. Original Star Trek 276

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 08, 2009 @10:44PM from the whole-new-generation-can-obsess-or-ridicule dept.

eldavojohn writes "On Friday, CBS launched a TV Classics section to their ad based online service. Which means that Trekkies can now watch all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series online at the expense of a few commercials. Alongside this CBS is offering all of MacGyver, Twin Peaks and even three seasons of the original Twilight Zone. A side note, they seem to work perfectly fine in Linux. "

Shuttleworth Sees Possibility For a QT-based GNOME 296

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 14, 2008 @09:44AM from the left-some-neurons-in-space dept.

An anonymous reader writes "derStandard.at has an extensive interview with Ubuntu-founder Mark Shuttleworth, in which he seems to be pushing for a switch to QT in the GNOME-project: 'I think it would be perfectly possible to deliver the values of GNOME on top of QT.' He goes on to talk about Apple as an 'innovation leader' and problems with Hardy Heron."

Comment Re:KDE4.1 great for geeks, not ready for simple us (Score 2, Interesting) 279

by CondorDes on Saturday July 12, 2008 @03:25PM (#24165875) Attached to: KDE Responds To Misconceptions About KDE 4

They didn't know, but should have known.

A number of people on kde-devel@ made exactly this argument -- calling it 4.0 would mislead people into thinking it was ready for end users when it's not.

It's not enough to say "Yay, KDE 4.0!", and then follow up with "oh, by the way, this is a technology preview/developer release".

Go read the KDE 4.0 Press Release. There is not one mention of the fact that 4.0 is intended for anything but the general user population. Saying it's "the beginning of the KDE4 era" implies nothing about the quality of the 4.0 release; it only indicates there are more features in the pipeline.

If KDE wanted to send a clear message that 4.0 was not ready for anyone but early-adopters, the press release was the definitive place to do it. But they didn't, and all this angst is the result.

PR mistakes aside, I still think that KDE is, and has been, a great desktop. I've been using trunk as my main desktop for several weeks now, and now that 4.1 has been branched, I'm really looking forward to what 4.2 has to offer.

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