JaDa's blog about Opera and Linux

This week I have take my time to testing the new KDE4 desktop. I used the KDE4 Live CD 1.0.1 from http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KDE+Four+Live?content=57117. The system was booting fine. Now I tried from openSUSE the new Installer, how starts with one click on it. In under 20 minutes the openSUSE 10.3 KDE4 desktop was complete installed and updated.
New applications, "sweep" it's like Linux program kleansweap how is now integrated in KDE4. If found a new Game, desktop widgets, and some cool stuff more.

The problems with ATI's fglrx driver catalyst, looks like it is solved.

Under the "Hood". The speed from KDE4 is really awesome. It uses less RAM and the applications fire up right by the way. It's better the KDE3 and Gnome 2.20.x but not like XFCE Desktops,

Linux

Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of Open Source development and Free Software; unlike proprietary operating systems such as Windows or Mac OS, all of its underlying source code is available to the public for anyone to freely use, modify, and redistribute.

Initially, Linux was primarily developed and used by individual enthusiasts. Since then, Linux has gained the support of major corporations such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Novell for use in servers and is gaining popularity in the desktop market[1]. It is used in systems ranging from personal computers to supercomputers and embedded systems such as mobile phones and personal video recorders. Proponents and analysts attribute its success to its vendor independence (the opposite of vendor lock-in), low cost, security, and reliability

History

In 1983, Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project, with the goal of developing a complete Unix-like operating system composed entirely of free software. By the beginning of the 1990s, GNU had produced or collected most of the necessary components of this system—libraries, compilers, text editors, a Unix-like shell—except for the core component, the kernel. The GNU project began developing a kernel, the Hurd, in 1990, based on the Mach microkernel, but the development of this Mach-based design proved difficult and proceeded slowly.

Meanwhile, in 1991, another kernel was begun as a hobby by Finnish university student Linus Torvalds while attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally used Minix on his own computer, a simplified Unix-like system written by Andrew Tanenbaum for teaching operating system design. However, Tanenbaum did not permit others to extend his operating system, leading Torvalds to create a replacement for Minix.

Originally, Torvalds called his kernel "Freax" for "free" and "freak" and with the often-used X in the names of Unix-like systems. The name "Linux" was coined by Ari Lemmke, who administered an FTP server belonging to the Finnish University Network; he invented the name Linux for the directory from which Torvalds' project was first available for download.

At first a computer running Minix was necessary in order to configure and install Linux. Initial versions of Linux also required another operating system to be present in order to boot from a hard disk, but soon there were independent boot loaders such as LILO. The Linux system quickly surpassed Minix in functionality; Torvalds and other early Linux kernel developers adapted their work for the GNU components and user-space programs to create a complete, fully functional, and free operating system.

Today, Torvalds continues to direct the development of the kernel, while other subsystems such as the GNU components continue to be developed separately (Linux kernel development is not part of the GNU Project). Other groups and companies combine and distribute these components with additional application software in the form of Linux distributions.