What does the K stand for?

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2016-01-17 18:39:37Post No. 52475002
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:39:37 Post No. 52475002 [Report]

What does the K stand for?

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:42:38 Post No.52475072
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:42:38 Post No.52475072 [Report]

Ketamine

Nothing else can explain how buggy that stuff is

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:42:39 Post No.52475073
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:42:39 Post No.52475073 [Report]

>>52475002
K is silent

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:43:15 Post No.52475081
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:43:15 Post No.52475081 [Report]

>>52475002
Krappy

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:48:28 Post No.52475176
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:48:28 Post No.52475176 [Report]

>>52475002
Kek obviously

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:48:34 Post No.52475182
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:48:34 Post No.52475182 [Report]

>>52475002
Kool

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:50:10 Post No.52475220
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:50:10 Post No.52475220 [Report]

>>52475002
Kappa

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:50:55 Post No.52475239
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:50:55 Post No.52475239 [Report]

Kikes

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:51:17 Post No.52475250
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:51:17 Post No.52475250 [Report]

k0rn

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:52:36 Post No.52475277
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:52:36 Post No.52475277 [Report]

>>52475002
Klan
the core KDE dev team are klansmen

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:53:16 Post No.52475289
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:53:16 Post No.52475289 [Report]

It used to mean "Kool" for kool desktop environment.

Here's the announcement about it from way back in 1996 before most of /g/ was even born.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/de.comp.os.linux.misc/SDbiV3Iat_s/zv_D_2ctS8sJ

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:53:24 Post No.52475295
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:53:24 Post No.52475295 [Report]

>>52475002

KDE.

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:56:25 Post No.52475355
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 18:56:25 Post No.52475355 [Report]

>>52475289
>everyone in that thread telling him to embrace CDE instead

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:01:30 Post No.52475461
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:01:30 Post No.52475461 [Report]

>>52475289
Joke's on you I was 3 months

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:04:31 Post No.52475514
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:04:31 Post No.52475514 [Report]

>>52475002
Killyourself

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:06:09 Post No.52475540
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:06:09 Post No.52475540 [Report]

>>52475289
>It used to

Why did they change it?

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:07:07 Post No.52475555
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:07:07 Post No.52475555 [Report]

>>52475289
>>52475540
What did they change it to?

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Anonymous (ID: !Jordan.UwQ) 2016-01-17 19:08:32 Post No.52475586
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Anonymous (ID: !Jordan.UwQ) 2016-01-17 19:08:32 Post No.52475586 [Report]

It's actually Kool, as fucking gay as that sounds.
I think these days it just means K though

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:08:33 Post No.52475587
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:08:33 Post No.52475587 [Report]

>>52475540
Because spelling words incorrect is *so* 90's

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:09:49 Post No.52475617
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:09:49 Post No.52475617 [Report]

>>52475540
>>52475555
It doesn't mean anything now it's just "K desktop environment"

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:10:28 Post No.52475631
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:10:28 Post No.52475631 [Report]

>>52475617
>>52475587
>>52475586
What a bunch of kucks

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:10:34 Post No.52475632
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:10:34 Post No.52475632 [Report]

>>52475002
Kunt

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:11:30 Post No.52475650
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:11:30 Post No.52475650 [Report]

>>5247507
Kek

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:14:24 Post No.52475712
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:14:24 Post No.52475712 [Report]

>>52475002
Krippled or Krazy or Kunt

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:20:21 Post No.52475850
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:20:21 Post No.52475850 [Report]

>>52475002
KDE as in KDE Desktop Enviroment

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:21:50 Post No.52475883
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:21:50 Post No.52475883 [Report]

kuntukticktu

its some african shit

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:23:30 Post No.52475925
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:23:30 Post No.52475925 [Report]

>>52475883
It probably means "I can't use CDE"

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:27:00 Post No.52476000
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:27:00 Post No.52476000 [Report]

>>52475925
CDE was not free though.

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:34:28 Post No.52476129
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:34:28 Post No.52476129 [Report]

>>52476000
KDE was built on an (at the time) non-free and non-open source framework

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:37:18 Post No.52476188
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:37:18 Post No.52476188 [Report]

it means you can over clock it

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:41:41 Post No.52476265
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:41:41 Post No.52476265 [Report]

>>52476129
yes but it was gratis and open source and a big reason Qt is free today.
We didn't have anything good back then that fit that description

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:42:48 Post No.52476278
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:42:48 Post No.52476278 [Report]

>>52475277
10/10

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:42:49 Post No.52476279
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 19:42:49 Post No.52476279 [Report]

>>52475002
Kock

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 20:37:05 Post No.52477320
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 20:37:05 Post No.52477320 [Report]

>>52475002
Kool Desktop Environment
Seriously

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 20:52:47 Post No.52477638
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 20:52:47 Post No.52477638 [Report]

Kubuntu Desktop Environment

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 21:02:00 Post No.52477839
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 21:02:00 Post No.52477839 [Report]

>>52477638
>KDE
>Kubuntu Desktop Environment
>KDE Ubuntu Desktop Environment
>Kubuntu Desktop Environment Ubuntu Desktop Environment
>KDE Ubuntu Desktop Environment Ubuntu Desktop Environment
>Kubuntu Desktop Environment Ubuntu Desktop Environment Ubuntu Desktop Environment
>...

Is this what people call recursivity?

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 21:15:40 Post No.52478098
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 21:15:40 Post No.52478098 [Report]

>>52475289

>The second post in that thread

It's almost like /g/ before /g/ happened