[Linux4christians] Ohio Linux Fest 05

[David Fierbaugh]

On Sunday 02 October 2005 04:31 pm, Christopher Rose wrote:
> Any chance that 2006 will be the year in which Linux really breaks onto the
> desktop scene? I would suggest that if more games were made that worked on
> Linux (though perhaps in the line of Doom, Quake, and Final Fantasy),
> perhaps we could find more people who would check out Linux.
>
>

I didn't get to sit through the Gnome session, but the KDE session sounds 
AWESOME!!!!

3.5 is going to be a great step forward, making KDE 3.5 a killer desktop.

4.0 WOW!!! Forget everything you've learned about the graphical desktop in the 
last 20 years. The desktop and the internet will become highly integrated. 
The interface gets easier. File management goes away in favor of content 
management (don't worry, you'll still be able to use file management tools 
like you're used to, but content management will be the default.)

From what I've read on MS Longhorn, the windows desktop isn't going to really 
change much. They're adding things like SVG (scalable vector graphics), file 
thumbnails that look like files, transparency, etc. The general paradigm 
hasn't changed, just adding eyecandy (stuff we've already got I might add.)

I think the new KDE paradigm will REALLY shake things up.