KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own The KDE project turns 30 in five months, but it already got an early birthday present: €1,285,200 from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. That's £1.1 million, or $1.5 million in US bucks. The KDE team already has some ideas about how it will spend it, and the project's thank-you note mentions a few: This is not the first time we …
That would never have worked either because they insisted on trying to put the cart before the horse and force users to learn new GUIs and new programs. The Schleswig-Holstein move has been both greater in scale but gentler and overall more successful.
Personally, I think the clients are the last things that should be migrated. The real risk is being dependent upon the abomination that is Exchange and forced to use more and more SaaS from Microsoft. Android for desktops is hopefully going to encourage for software to be ported to the format (can easily run on a Linux subsystem regardless of the GUI).
It depends what you mean by "Linux". Who knows about the kernel? It's big, it has obscure parts. But let's say it's "clean".
Nobody runs just the kernel. Any tool that runs as root anywhere along the line could be the target for backdoor. A driver. A package which you download and install as root. The chances of sneaking something in are not extremely low.
That is definitely true. However, if you're running Windows, you're running an environment that is made of Swiss Cheese when it comes to security. Kernel is a word that Redmond still has to come to grips with.
In the Linux world, the kernel space and the user space are very much seperated. The user can go and run any stupid thing he wants, the kernel will, by and large, remain untouched.
Delete the user profile and the computer should be secure.
Of course, as always, there have been a few memorable exceptions to this rule where some very bright hacker managed to circumvent kernel security from user space.
In the Linux world, it happens about once a decade and is quickly patched.
In the Windows world, it happens once a week and patches take weeks to come out and they themselves can wreak untold havoc.
I know what universe I prefer to be in . . .
> I like KDE but I tend to use older machines so I always tend to use something else that can run on weak machines.
I got an angry comment on Reddit to my recent xBuntu remix comparison that may amuse you, then:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1t82yuk/i_compared_the_desktops_ram_disk_usage_of_all_8/olqi814/
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I have some information for you. We have an old machine with KDE in the basement. There is an AMD 4cores+iGPU from 2010 and 2GB DDR2. Do you know how beautifully KDE6 runs on it?
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A quad-core 64-bit box and it can run KDE. Wow. You should be able to model an entire national economy on that, and possibly play Doom while it's doing it.
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"I like KDE but I tend to use older machines so I always tend to use something else that can run on weak machines."
For years I ran KDE on an eMachines netbook that was end of life when I bought it in 2009. It was only retired when the key caps kept falling off.
I sincerely hope that in ten years time we will be able to point to Trump's misrule and the ICC shenanigans and say that was the point when it all started to go wrong for Google, Amazon and Microsoft - and that Palantir will be an historical footnote.
Tell him the world has been abusing the big beautiful IPv4 for years and that they should pay tarrifs to use it. That it'll bring jobs to the US and that he can take a majority stake in the company behind IPv4. Then adopt IPv6 and unplug IPv4.
Some of the jokes are funnier in English than in French*, because René Goscinny seemed to be pretty good at writing puns in English. How good is the humour in German?
An obvious joke that was written in English and then translated to French is Dogmatix's name; in French, he's called "Idéfix"
Don't know about this one… Asterix auf Bairisch : Der große Mundart-Sammelband. I don't speak German, never mind Bavarian dialect.
> René Goscinny seemed to be pretty good at writing puns in English.
He was -- he lived in New York City for years and cartooned in English there -- but the British English translations were done by the amazing duo of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge.
https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-the-genius-of-anthea-bell-and-derek-hockridge/
(Bell's brother was BBC-presenter-turned-politican Martin Bell.
He inspired the finest opening line of a biography I've ever read:
"Dead coypus levitate as the witches come to Knutsford Heath to watch the murder of a day-old politician called Martin Bell."
From Purple Homicide, by John Sweeney.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthea_Bell
She came out of retirement to do the first of the new Asterix books by Conrad and Ferri, and they are excellent. Indeed they are better than the books written by Uderzo on his own after Goscinny died.
The last book Bell & Hockridge translated that Goscinny approved was _Asterix in Britain_ -- my personal favourite -- and he loved their work. It was more of a rewrite than a translation because French jokes about Brits are not merely not funny to Brits, they are completely incomprehensible. He said it was great work, loved the way they worked "old fruit" and other such Wodehousian sobriquets into it... and died not long afterwards.
So, all credit to him, but no, he did not write the English scripts.
I am told Asterix didn't sell much in the USA and I am not sure if there might be a different American English translation. The British gags ("that's the wonder of Woolix") would make no sense to Americans.
However it's not just in German, but there are I believe also versions in Bavarian German and Swiss German as well as the Hochdeutsch translations of which I have one or two. It is more extensively localised than almost any other 20th century fiction. And it deserves it.
"The Wonder of Woolix" on the side of a covered wagon is what I have in my copy of Obelix and Co. purchased in Ireland last century. The Papercutz version (in Ominbus vol. 8, 3 books in 1 seems to be for US market) says "PERiPATETiX's WE'RE DRiViNG FOR A BARGAIN" instead. https://books.google.com/books?id=9QAIEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA80
But, this is not "the thyme and plaice to carp."
There's a (now out of print and expensive) book by the English translators about Asterix
A lot of the jokes in 'Asterix in Britain' were from French English language textbooks that Brits wouldn't get, so they replaced them with jokes from British Latin school textbooks that today nobody gets.
…does not get you very far in this day and age but it's better than nothing, I suppose.
Also, the article does not say, but I assume the recipient was *not* the KDE foundation, as they do not pay for development (nor were they allowed to, I forget the reason).
Hmm… or am I getting mixed up with the LibreOffice foundation?
