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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] KDE4 Daily Virtual Image - Dot Article?
From:       "Jos Poortvliet" <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-11-22 21:11:34
Message-ID: 5c77e14b0711221311m4413b2d5o511bfa6cbcf866da () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Nov 22, 2007 1:51 PM, Simon St James <simon@etotheipiplusone.com> wrote:
> Submitted a slightly modified version of the below, yesterday - hopefully the
> Dot Ninji will be able to make it serviceable :) How long does it usually
> take to get a response?
> 
> Cheers,
> Si.

Sorry we couldn't help - at least I've been (and still am) way too
busy. It can take a few days, but they'll get to it ;-)

Nice job on the whole thing, btw!


> 
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 22:52:21 Simon St James wrote:
> > Hi Sebastian,
> > 
> > > > What should I do now?
> > > 
> > > Dot article, definitely. Even if it's short, people are interested and
> > > eager to try a new KDE daily, you know? :-)
> > 
> > Do you mean try to write one myself, or can one of the Promo team handle
> > this? I am a sucky writer, and have never written anything remotely
> > promotional before :(
> > 
> > I'm about to go to bed, but here's a quick attempt, though, in case no one
> > has time.  It can be used as a base, extensively edited (I always seem to
> > drone on and on and on and on and on and on and zzzzz) or just thrown away,
> > as you guys see fit!
> > 
> > -----
> > We're finally in the home stretch on the road to KDE4.0 - applications and
> > libraries are in good shape, and just need extensive user testing to hammer
> > out the kinks and assure that they arrive in the best possible shape in
> > time (hopefully!) for Christmas.  This fact, combined with the trend of
> > dedicated Krush days devoted exclusively to bug-fixing, means there is a
> > pressing need for KDE users to be provided with extremely up-to-date
> > installs of KDE4 so that they can catch any last-minute regressions,
> > confirm proposed bug-fixes and avoid re-reporting bugs that have recently
> > been fixed, preferably without having to wait for packages to be provided
> > for their particular choice of distro or having to download and boot into a
> > LiveCD every day.
> > 
> > Enter KDE4Daily [URL -
> > http://etotheipiplusone.com/kde4daily/docs/kde4daily.html]: this is a
> > (very!) experimental attempt at accomplishing the above goals using the
> > Qemu virtualisation technology.  The basic idea is that end-users download
> > the initial KDE4Daily 0.0.1 Qemu image (containing the now somewhat dated
> > revision 734472), run it in Qemu, and use the built-in installer scripts to
> > "upgrade" the KDE4 install to the latest revision provided, so that they
> > can always test-out bleeding edge revisions pulled straight from SVN,
> > roughly every day.  Upgrades are intended to use up relatively little
> > bandwidth (20-50MB for a day's worth of updates is typical; "bridge"
> > updates that condense a week's worth into one package bring this down to an
> > average of 10MB or so) and quick to apply (5 minutes per update is common,
> > although "bridge" updates can take 10-15 minutes).  Because Qemu is
> > distro-agnostic, you don't need to worry about distros or libraries or
> > dependencies or suchlike; in fact, you can even test out KDE4 while running
> > Windows!
> > 
> > The downside is that eye-candy such as KWin's new Composite-based effects
> > will not be testable as Qemu does not support hardware graphics
> > acceleration, and everything will generally feel a lot more sluggish than
> > is the case with a "native" install.
> > 
> > An extensive FAQ is provided at the KDE4Daily homepage, above; please feel
> > free to ask any further questions in the Dot comments section! Also, note
> > that KDE4Daily has not yet had any real testers apart from myself, so
> > please be prepared for "teething trouble" such as botched upgrades and
> > bandwidth issues! Enjoy, and remember that the more people test, the better
> > KDE4.0 will be.  As an added incentive for trying it out, you can try out
> > the
> > rapidly-developing Plasma as it progresses, too!
> > -----
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Simon
> > 
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