أنا استعملت أن يتبع DistroWatch.com إلى حدّ ما بدقّة, ورغم أنّ أنا أستعمل أنّ موقعة ك "[لونش بد]" لكلّ أشياء [لينوإكس], قرأ أنا تلقّى لم يكن الالرسالة الإخباريّة أسبوعيّة "[ديسترووتش] صحيفة أسبوعيّة" مثل أنا استعملت إلى. أنا كان قرأت من خلال بعض من ال يحفظ إصدارات, وتصادف هذا أصدرت حيث [ديسترووتش] محافظة [لديسلف] [بودنر] كتب افتتاحيّة ممتعة جدّا حول [كد] 3 و4 وال [كرّنت ستت] من توزيعات يشحن [كد].

ذهبت إن أنت تهتمّ حول [كد], وخصوصا, إن مثل ي, أنت تهتمّ خصوصا حول [كد] 3, رجاء يقرأ مادته. هو يشبع من جيّدة, معلومة متوازنة. أنا أفكّر سيأخذ أنا كنت [أديفس] ه ويحاول [كد] (3) يركّب من [دبين] [لنّي]. بما أنّ قال هو:

أخيرا, إن أنت تهتمّ حول الشخصيّة (وما من شك خلافيّة) رأي من ك [ديسترووتش] محافظة الذي يتلقّى يكون يقيّم كثير توزيعات على الزوج متأخّرة شهور, بعد ذلك هنا إشعاره: ركّبت [دبين] "[لنّي]". رغم أنّ أنت لن يكون ستركض ال [بليدينغ-دج] [قت] [4/كد] 4 إدماج, سيسرّ أنت كنت أن يعرف أنّ أنت يستطيع ساكنة استمتعت [فتثر-فولّ], [ليغتنينغ-فست] و [كد] [روك-سليد] 3.5.9, أيّ كنت سيساند جيّدا داخل 2011. [بي وهيش تيم],

بعد يحاول [كوبونتث] يبسل, ليس أنا يوقن [أنمور] كيف عظيمة [مندريفا] [كد] 4 تزويد حقّا كان. هو كان ال [كد] أولى 4.1.2 أنا حاولت, ويبدأ أنا أن يفكّر أنّ يكون حيث السحر كان.

قد كان [كوبونتث] 8.10 كلّ لقمة بما أنّ سريعا, و [روك-سليد].

أنا أقول أنّ مع نزاهة مطلقة أيضا! هو كان اجتماع لطيفة أنت. Honestly, I knew part-way through the weekend it probably wasn’t going to work out. I was hesitant to jump ship too quickly, because I really wanted it to work out, however there were a few things that kept coming up that I simply wasn’t able to overcome. To everyone at Mandriva, I do think you all put out a nice distro, and I look forward to keeping up with your progress, and I’ll surely check out 2009.1, but honestly, after getting past the KDE 4 bling you initially provided me, I simply wasn’t comfortable. It was kinda like staying at a hotel - it’s nice for a while, but after a few days you just wanna go home!

Here are some of the issues I ran into:

First - from the time I first installed, something weird was going on with your mirrors. I have a 10+ Meg pipe here at my house, and my net install took 3 hours to complete - probably because I was downloading from a European mirror. I didn’t complain at the time, because I figured since it was release day, all off

Today KDE Dot News reported that the brand new KDE User Forums are up and running.

This will be an awesome place to go to discuss all things KDE in a Distribution neutral environment. If you care about KDE, and would like to help out and interact with other KDE users, this is the place to go.

I know all too well how easy it is to get hung up in your own distro, and you never get to interact and exchange ideas with users from other distributions (and even other Unixes, such as BSD). This is your opportunity to help out KDE itself and give something back to the entire KDE community!

See you on the forums!

http://forum.kde.org/

Although they sometimes get a bad rap because of Novell’s agreement with Microsoft, stuff which I could care less about - partly because I’m a MS consumer as well, and I make my living largely by Administrating Windows Server Operating Systems, openSUSE does some great things for the Linux Community.

Personally, on several occasions, I have tried and failed to run openSUSE as my personal distro. I’m not going to get into those reason here, but we are simply not a “match”. That aside, there is a great tool given too us by openSUSE and that is the Build Service and the “KDE Four” Live CD.

The KDE Four Live CD comes in two versions, and both are installable, based on openSUSE 11.0 and are a handy tool to keep up with KDE 4 development.

Both versions are available here, and let me explain the differences.

The first CD is based on KDE 4.1.1 (I’m sure soon to be updated to 4.1.2) and represents the latest “stable” build of KDE 4. The second CD is based on the KDE 4.1.64 development snapshot, which will become KDE 4.2.

Since I’m running Mandriva 2009 with KDE 4.1.2, I opted for the “development” CD

In case you are wondering why the frequent posts, I’m simply documenting my acclamation with KDE 4 in real-time; as I discover stuff.

Although I was very happy just a few hours ago to discover the Plastik window decorations were available in KDE 4, things move very fast when you are feeling your way around a new environment.

Just now I was playing around with the openSUSE based “KDE Four LiveCD” in VirtualBox (this will be my next blog-post, so stay tuned), I discovered this little combo.

I personally can’t see a huge difference between the Oxygen and the Ozone window decorations, and honestly I’m not sure which is the KDE 4 default, but I knew I didn’t like either one in the context they have been previously presented too me. I just discovered though, that I can kill the “stripes” and have a solid colored decoration with Ozone, which I like a lot - I didn’t like the “blended” or “same-color” windows that I saw before.

This is a livable option for me, and definitely looks more “modern” and more “KDE 4″ than Plastik.

Check it out (excuse the task-bar clutter, I was preparing for my next blog-post when I