Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] KDE 4 - The Good, The Bad, and The Broken - Dotan Cohen

2010-05-23 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Hi Raz It is the other way round - it is the Ben-Yehuda Project's software. The Project's home page: http://benyehuda.org/ The talk will deal with software written especially for the needs of this project, for which no available software existed (not even closed source). All this software is free

Re: [Haifux] Where were the organizers?

2010-05-23 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I hoped that this thread would die out sooner or later, but I realize that people have a lot on their minds. To the plain user, the critical difference between free software and the one you pay for, is that you don't have a number to call when something goes wrong. I know, there ar

[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] KDE 4 - The Good, The Bad, and The Broken - Dotan Cohen

2010-05-23 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
On Monday (TOMORROW), May 24th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Dotan Cohen discuss: KDE 4 - the good, the bad, and the broken Abstract KDE was developed to give Unix applications a common look and feel. From 1996 to 2007 the desktop environment saw many improvements and changes. In Janua

Re: [Haifux] Moving Dotan's lecture

2010-05-23 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Shalom Ram, Thank you for your concern. However, *Dotan's talk is about the desktop, SYSTOR is about systems and storage. *There is no time overlap (the poster session should last about an hour). *No other voices were heard so far. *We try to avoid schedule changes, especially of close-future lec