I have managed to find some time to cover the recent changes in the development version of KDE 4.4. The number of changes is not impressive but they are interesting enough to write an article.
As an experiment I decided to build Media PC based on Linux. First of all I was wondering, how much did the Linux distributions evolve in the past few years (I’ve used Linux since a few years only on servers). The second thing is, I was fascinated by quite new, miniaturized hardware solutions based on Intel Atom processors. The third was, I wanted to check in real life the suitability of so called Media P..
Concerning the last one, after a tentative googling I made a few assumptions, which I’d like to achieve:
And the usage of all hardware should be not much involving, which means that I’d like it to ensure:
It’d also be good if the hardware was silent and didn’t use much energy. Not meaningless would be also fitting it all into a small and aesthetic case – looking more like an audio player than a PC (only with this assumption you can negotiate with the fair sex leaving the machine in a saloon – that is close to the TV set).
