Re: call to arms

I use KDE!

On 16 April 2010 10:42, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes <gunnar.grimnes@dfki.de>wrote:

> On 16/04/10 11:37, adasal wrote:
>
>> Americans pay $130 month for cable?
>> That can't be right, why would anyone do that?
>>
>> Isn't KDE based on Sesame, I can't remember which way round this went, I
>> thought they used Virtuoso for a bit then reverted?
>> It never seems to work too well, it is one of the areas that shows that
>> KDE is hugely experimental, and not for main stream adoption. People
>> just don't have time. Meanwhile, the ideas in KDE propagate into other
>> OSes gradually.
>>
>
> The RDF API is new for KDE (called Soprano), initially there were options
> to have redland as a backing store, but performance was awful. Then they
> introduced Sesame2 as an option, but being written in Java, it wasn't very
> popular. Also it's very memory hungry.
>
> Now they are using a cut-down "desktop version" of virtuoso, and as far as
> I can tell, they are very happy.
>
> It didn't work very well before, but it's continuously improving. It's also
> very ambitious.
>
> KDE brings many coders that will build up best practises for making RDF
> work, UX issues with RDF, etc. Only good can come of this!
>
> (disclaimer, I use gnome :)
>
> - Gunnar
>
>
>> Adam
>>
>> On 16 April 2010 10:24, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes <gunnar.grimnes@dfki.de
>> <mailto:gunnar.grimnes@dfki.de>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>        I think the big question it raises, and what I'm largely working on
>>        these days, is why has all this hypertext / linkyness not affected
>>        televison very much yet?
>>
>>
>>    You might have seen this Dan, but it's happening (although slowly):
>>
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100413/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1598;_ylt=AthFBTG1PVCT2qb6.095JPYDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTJ1azdzMGpzBGFzc2V0A3l0ZWNoX2dhZGcvMjAxMDA0MTMveXRlY2hfZ2FkZ190YzE1OTgEcG9zAzIEc2VjA3luX2FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawNuZWFybHk4MDAwMDA-
>>
>>    (great URL from yahoo there)
>>
>>
>>
>>    --
>>    Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes
>>    DFKI GmbH
>>    http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~grimnes<http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/%7Egrimnes>
>>    <http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/%7Egrimnes>
>>
>>
>>
>
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> DFKI GmbH
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