Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 25th Feb 2002 17:32 UTC
David Faure is a well known developer in the KDE & Linux community. His work can be found in KFM, Konqueror source code and he recently also picked up KOffice's KWord development. David is also one of the people who have commited in bug squashing under KDE, especially after he got hired by Mandrake Software. Read more for our interview with David regarding Konqueror, KDE object prelinking, Gnome and much more.
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> speed and cpu optimization is the greatest obstacles against
> linux and KDE. it works approximately 2-3times slower than
> MS Windows, has anyone tried to move windows when playing an
> mp3 file??
It works fine for me. I can play MP3s in KDE and GNOME with all sorts of other processes running and I have no problems. I can web browse in Galeon while compressing MPEG video into DivX (with mplayer's mencoder), and my system will still be quite responsive. My system is hardly 'state-of-the-art', being a Pentium II 350MHz with 128MB of RAM. Conversely, Win2K and XP run like molasses on my system, and that's with only a few apps running.
> who would like to use a desktop without a mediaplayer??
KDE has noatun and kaboodle. There is also aviplay, mplayer (my favourite) and xine, not to mention countless others. Mplayer and xine can play more formats than Windows Media player, and they handle file errors much better. I have DivX, WMV and ASF files that Windows Media Player chokes on, but which mplayer and xine play gracefully. Most importantly, GNU/Linux media players don't http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24152.html">spy .