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Anyone else see the irony? 12 March 2010 11:18
Interesting article. I've been using Mandrake/Mandriva since 2001 and
feel a great affinity to it now.
This paragraph brought a wry smile to my face:
"Miguel de Icaza, at that time a rising star of the free software
movement and co-creator, with Federica Mena, of the rival GNOME
project, expressed the mixed feelings of many users and developers.
"KDE was an inspirational project," he told Linux Journal, "but at
the time, the Qt toolkit on which KDE was built was a proprietary
toolkit."
The fact that he's working with Microsoft now in producing the
wretchedly slow Mono to provide compatibility with .NET and
potentially laying Linux open to all sorts of future problems is
deliciously ironic.
In terms of Mandriva, hopefully they will survive and flourish again,
it still hangs in there fairly high up in Distrowatch. They probably
do KDE better than any other distro and have done a splendid job with
the now excellent KDE4 desktop.
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12 Mar 2010 11:18DiBosco
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