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Story: KDE getting ready to go native on Windows

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Posted by: BD Phillips (Wednesday 9 February 2005, 7:33 AM)

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The availability of cross platform applications has made it easer for me to switch clients to Linux.

For example, I will first get them to standardize on FireFox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice and sometimes Sunbird. After they are comfortable with those applications switching out the underlying OS is relatively painless, since the tools they use most everyday is exactly the same.

Having KDE will make it even easier, because some many other applications will be cross-platform, so the transition will be that much smoother.

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Story: KDE getting ready to go native on Windows

  1. If you really want Posix for Windows.: http://www.... Jeff Lewis
  2. History repeating itself ... To those advocat... Gregory L. Marx
  3. I look at it from the other point of vie... David Wright
  4. There are a few *HUGE* differences betwe... Richard June
  5. I can't argue with your 2nd and 3rd... Gregory L. Marx
  6. I don't remember OS/2 *EVER* d... Richard June
  7. Well, I know OS/2 didn't get m... Gregory L. Marx
  8. I definitely agree that the availability of c... Michiel Wittkampf
  9. When I was young, similar things happene... Chevalier Dr Dr Ruediger Marcus Flaig
  10. SFU -- Shut the F**K up? Cozminsky
  11. So I hope to be able to use http://www.reactos.com... Jamie Borg
  12. I thing that it's great for projects like REA... Anonymous
  13. The availability of cross platform applications ha... BD Phillips
  14. As a small office desktop user our 'training'... Anonymous
  15. Linux needs more, better drivers. Not Windows hel... michael howard
  16. Possible shortsighted comments by KDE developer? I... Brett Kislin
  17. I have to disagree. Our company is a Windows-only... Anonymous
  18. Isn't the point of the GPL to provide the freedom... Anonymous
  19. Having the only ports of great free software has n... Tobias Cohen
  20. I would disagree, as a very loyal Windows user, th... Jon D.
  21. Are members of the Open Source community really su... Gary Varga
  22. Making free software available on Windows alt... Larry Gearhart
  23. I was using Windows for a long time. I w... David
  24. These people who whine about "If all the good soft... Matt
  25. I like pizza Jo Jo
  26. To those who think allowing developers to do nativ... Anonymous
  27. >My wife is now a Linux user, and the only >... Bubba
  28. The point all depends on your perspectiv... Anonymous
  29. Raptorhead.com sells open source apps for Windows... Anonymous

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