Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Nov 2008 19:19 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Thanks to the Mandriva Xfce volunteer development team, a community Xfce One edition of Mandriva Linux 2009 is now available for download from all official Mandriva mirrors. A list of download locations can be found on the Wiki page. This release gives you all the benefits of Mandriva Linux 2009 along with a fast and stable Xfce desktop.
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I have Kubuntu Intrepid ibex and Windows Home Premium on both Lenovo 3000 and Toshiba A205 laptops. Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex blows Windows Vista out of the water for speed. I have Windows XP, Kubuntu Hardy Heron, and Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex on separate partitions on a Toshiba A105 laptop. Kubuntu Ibex is significantly faster than both Kubuntu Hardy Heron and Windows XP (Hardy Heron is marginally faster than Windows XP). But Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex is randomly buggy (simple things from simple desktop settings to Kopete IM to Virtualbox to groupware), whereas Hardy Heron and XP are both rock stable.
On each of my machines (numbering six), I have a similar experience of better speed using KDE4 in Intrepid Ibex, but I have not encountered any KDE4 bugs (apart from the icons in the system tray not being drawn correctly).
See the effect in the lower-right corner on this screenshot:
http://ourlan.homelinux.net/img/?Qwd=./images&Qiv=name&Qis=M
Apart from that one no-consequence KDE4 bug, the bugs I have otherwise encountered have all been common to the underlying Ubuntu Intrepid stack ... specifically in the bluetooth software, and the network manager.
Edited 2008-11-19 01:44 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:33 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
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Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/18/13 11:21 UTC
Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
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I have Kubuntu Intrepid ibex and Windows Home Premium on both Lenovo 3000 and Toshiba A205 laptops.
Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex blows Windows Vista out of the water for speed.
I have Windows XP, Kubuntu Hardy Heron, and Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex on separate partitions on a Toshiba A105 laptop.
Kubuntu Ibex is significantly faster than both Kubuntu Hardy Heron and Windows XP (Hardy Heron is marginally faster than Windows XP).
But Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex is randomly buggy (simple things from simple desktop settings to Kopete IM to Virtualbox to groupware), whereas Hardy Heron and XP are both rock stable.
The problem is KDE 4 is buggy, not slow. All distributions with KDE4 have the same problems.
KDE4 will be sorted out soon, though. Kubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, perhaps.
It's hard to get Windows XP anymore, so it's Kubuntu Hardy Heron for me.