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No, seriously. It's off-topic but I really think insightful comments [like the parent comment] should be given more exposure outside of /.

You mean we need a Ballmer version of the icon with Borg implants? :-)

Awesome news, thank you for your work on this area!

I'm unfortunately short of time to do my share part, but perhaps others would be able to if they know about this feature. :-)

As for my feedback, I'd like to see more features from process explorer available. The tool provides _a lot_ for detailed information about a process:
- the tcp/ip connections the process has open.
- the libraries it has loaded
- the environment variables the process has.
- the security context of the process (think selinux)
- the strings the process contains (both image and memory)
- the threads it has open, including their starting point.
- the cpu and memory usage per process.

See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127728

Oh and other nice features of it:
- killing an app by pressing delete
- a brief highlight of a row on process creation and destruction.

Could you consider some of these points? It would be yet a reason less to open a terminal, and rival `top` :-)

Yes, because it produces a openSUSE derivative.

Fortunately, openSUSE also comes with zypper as high level tool. It's quite like apt is a high level tool to dpkg and DEB packages.
For a comparison:

• rpm -i <-> dpkg -i
• zypper install <-> apt-get install

Zypper is also just as fast as apt-get. So it may not be that bad after all. :-)

Secondly the openSUSE build service allows you to search for an insane number of packages in community / addon repositories.

this is a realy good point, and most people seam to forget that. After running updates, you can use this command to see which processes use old library versions:

lsof | grep inode=

I'd wish linux update tools/applets would check this too...

Interestingly enough the designers of Oxygen didn't look at Vista at all, and implemented their own vision of a nice desktop style :-p

If black == vista, then yes, almost everything can look like vista..

All 4.2.x releases only contain bugfixes. They won't include new features, let alone new applications.

*kuch* http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_3.4_Release_Schedule ..?

Together with puppet one really needs to look into Kiosk. This allows you to lock down the configuration of KDE applications, and it's *one* of the reasons KDE is used in enterprise deployments instead of GNOME.

And that's something this distribution could have addressed already. The package manager knows the language setting too.

Someone else already did this as well. :-)

I happen to remember that many, many, many years ago some magazine editor decided to rag on some company that had sent the magazine some doodads. The doodads weren't even promoting a game! Instead they were announcing the creation of a new videogame company. The doodad was actually a knick knack with a bloody brain in it (or something like that) with the name of the company printed visibly on it. For some reason this irked the game magazine editor, and he proceeded to expound, on said magazine's editorial, on how gimmicky the whole affair was, and what a loser of a company this was going to be.

For some reason, Croal's post reminded me of that editorial... And I will tell you this: PR is PR, that's why we have hot babes selling beer and spam emails to make our dicks longer. But in the end, the game will stand alone and speak for itself, gamers will either love it or hate it.

You see, that company the magazine editor ragged on? A couple of years later it went on to release Grand Theft Auto for the PS2, and arguably single-handedly brought open-ended sandbox gaming to the masses...