Hands on: testing the KDE 4.2 release candidate on Windows

Ars takes the KDE 4.2 release candidate out for a test drive on Windows. The popular open source desktop environment has moved beyond Linux and is becoming increasingly robust on other platforms. Even KDE's Plasma desktop shell is now Windows-compatible.<BR><BR><a href='http://meincmagazine.com/open-source/news/2009/01/testing-kde-42-release-candidate-on-windows.ars'>Read the whole story</a>

 

[bsdaemon]

WTF would anyone want to hang the colostomy bag that is WinBlows XP on the side of a nice, clean<BR>GUI like KDE???<BR><BR>Like dressing a hog in a Brooks Brothers suit.<BR><BR>Just grow a pair, read Welch and Werzenius' "Running Linux", and start running a <I>REAL</I> OS.

 

[bsdaemon]

Actually, Gnome's making some impressive strides in getting Evolutions Exchange/Outlook compatibility to an Almost-Ready-for-Prime Time status.<BR><BR> When there is finally a viable FOSS alternative to Outlook/Entourage, I firmly believe that will be the beginning of the end of MicroLimp's dominance of enterprise desktops