<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thank you for that clarification John. I've never used KDE because I didn't like the menu system at the time. Perhaps it is worth a second look.</span></div><div><span>Brian<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> John R Hudson <j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk; Brian <bradlug@techchico.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 30 June 2012, 20:40<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bradford] KDE on
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">Plasma Active isn't a distro;. Plasma is the 'desktop' framework for KDE4 - Active adds touchscreen functionality to that framework.</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">KDE now talks about offering a 'software collection' from which you can choose the elements you want. That is why is has been possible to 'roll' a distro for Raspberry Pi that leaves out the memory hogs.</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">John</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">On Saturday 30 June 2012 10:55:01 Brian wrote:</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> It mentions that it is running Plasma - I assume by this they mean the</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> Distro that is called 'Plasma Active'. That is the one that is used by the</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> Vivaldi Project that I mentioned in the pub last Wednesday. They plan to</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> release a tablet which, as I understand it, will be a slightly enhanced</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> version of the tablet I purchased recently, supposedly by Zenithink - a</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> ZTPad a.k.a. c71, but Google Play recognises it as a Samsung. It has an</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> open boot loader and can support various OS'. It has no 3G but will</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> support many external dongles, and it has no bluetooth. There is also a</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> 10" version. Here is the spec:</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> http://www.cintamani.co.uk/_Google_Android_40_Tablet_ZeniThink_C71_Cortex_A</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> 9_10_GHz--product--224.html or use:</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> http://tinyurl.com/cujexqp</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> From: John R Hudson <j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> Sent: Saturday, 30 June 2012, 9:20</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> For those wanting to try another experiment on their Pi</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;">> http://www.muktware.com/3793/kde-now-available-raspberry-pi</div>
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