Here is a review of KDE 4 I found that you folks might want to peruse, Baldy

“After three weeks of using KDE 4 on my laptop, I continue to find new features and changes. I am aware of the dictionary of special names that make up the back end of the new KDE–Oxygen, Plasma, Phonon, and the rest–but just as often as the major features, it’s the little items that I find welcome as much as the large ones. Increasingly, I’m looking at KDE 4 as a statement about what a desktop should be, and contrasting it with my own ideas on the subject.

“Last week, I talked about the defaults that didn’t match my concepts of usability (and I meant defaults; I’m well aware that many settings can be changed, including the ones about which I complained, but the point is that even experienced users can miss the customizing tools). The result was exactly the sort of detailed discussion I was hoping for, when Aaron Seigo gave a detailed critique of my comments in his blog…”

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Apple may have a hard time shutting down the new maverick Mac-clonemaker Psystar, say legal experts.

Psystar, a Miami-based IT services company, started advertising the $400 OpenComputer this week. It’s a generic PC that comes with Leopard, Apple’s latest operating system, pre-installed.

And while Psystar may be violating Apple’s end user license agreement, or EULA, by doing this, legally there’s not much Apple can do about it, says Raj Abhyanker, a patent lawyer who used to write patents for Apple.

While I would not call Apple a monopoly in the case of computers, ipods yes but what they plan to do by selling these little rascals I have no idea unless it is a case of someone that just wants to get into the news for a day or two. And no I am not a fanboy of Macs this is just the way I see it, Baldy

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