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KDE Slimbook V: The first KDE laptop with the AMD 7840HS CPU - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 10 months ago by merthyr1831 to c/[email protected]

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Price starts at €999 and releases in April, and will come with Plasma 6.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

MaXX Desktop. A (authorized) clone of SGI's desktop environment, the developer is trying to make it open-sourced but due to some contractual agreement he has to talk with HPE (which currently holds SGI assets and rights) first and make a new contract, at least this is what he said AFAIK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

IRIX was Unix based with BSD extensions and I believe Maxx Interactive now runs on FreeBSD without Linux compatibility mode. So hopefully it won’t be long before it goes open source. Though I can’t understand why it would be needed outside of anything but nostalgia.