free software continues to march forward in turkey as the national linux project pardus starts seeing its first draft deployments. pardus uses kde for the desktop, as do many regional distributions around the world. congrats to the pardus team, looks like your hard work is about to start paying off!
there was also some news about oracle and their linux support play where they are taking red hat enterprise and turning it into their own little thing. not much different from whitebox or centos, really, except that this time there's a 500lb gorilla behind it. it is an interesting example of what is possible with free software. how it sorts out in the end is anyone's best guess in my opinion. will oracle benefit? will red hat suffer? *shrug* it's yet another open source experiment and nature (of the digital variety) will select the winners.
played around with the dolphin file manager a bit today ... some interesting ideas and code in there. nothing revolutionary (yet?), just some really nice beginnings to things. but then i don't think that a file manager needs to be revolutionary any more than a hammer does.
oh, and congrats to both the fedora and [k]ubuntu boys 'n girls for getting out rocking new releases =) i'm upgrading as i type.
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Yay for Pardus! ;)
Also Dolphin seems to be a nice project, might be a good idea to integrate it in Pardus/Kubuntu/"insert your KDE distro here" to replace Konqueror filemanager.
> might be a good idea to integrate it
this is probably premature; it's got a ways to go imo before it's ready for such a thing. but it's an interesting start, no doubt about that.
"nothing revolutionary (yet?), just some really nice beginnings to things"
On the contrary. While I really like Konqueror, I don't use it as a webbrowser (okay, sometimes I FTP into it... being a webguy and all) and while I find it very capable, its plethora of features, buttons and configurations are often confusing.
Dolphin is like a fresh breath of air, for people that want a file manager to, just, manage their files. The hiding of paths from the view is also very interesting.
Basically, I could set this up for my dad or sister, and never worry about them getting confused about seeing /opt, /mnt, ... , in there, or clicking the "FSview" button and getting lost in there, or being scared by seeing an innumerable number of buttons, toolbars and dialog boxes.
UI design like this is sometimes like writing a good text: the more you cut away, the better it becomes (taking care to keep the essential stuff).
I'm glad finally that there will be a choice for people who want a file manager like that.
There's a difference between turkey and Turkey, you know. One is an animal and the other is a country. As all other countries, including Canada (and Norway) the country's name should start with a capital letter.
It's incredible what us people with English as a second language has to teach some people who should have it as their primary language.
I know you don't like capital letters. Beats me why, you only have 26 letters, so another 26 variants shouldn't be too hard to learn. In Norway we have 29, but most of us manage to learn all 58 variants. Think of countries where accents and cedilles (perhaps spelt wrong) are common, poor people...
If I really don't like the letters k and x, is it OK that I say I am using CDE and firefocs?
I had too much time to waste today, obviously. Have a nice weekend :-)
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