KDE 1.94 "Kandidat" released

The folks at KDE e-mailed with the news KDE 1.94 "Kandidat" has been released. It's the fifth and final beta preview of Kopernicus - which is supposed to ship in the last part of 2000. They also asked folks to use HTTP instead of FTP when downloading it. You can grab it here or read the release for different package formats.

Comments

Re:Why HTTP instead of FTP?

[MenTaLguY]

I'm curious why they asked people to use HTTP instead of FTP to download the files. Is HTTP now considered better for file transfer than FTP?

If you're just downloading something, there are some distinct advantages to HTTP, mainly relating to setup/teardown:

• lower session setup/teardown costs
• simpler negotiation
• HTTP is stateless (no sessions to worry about)
• No requirement to negotiate secondary TCP connections
• Data retreived over HTTP is inherently typed ("Content-type:") [I use this to great advantage on my site -- "look ma, no extensions!"] ... not so much an advantage for file transfer, except that if the server's set up properly, text/binary conversion issues are magically okay
• HTTP can negotiate special encodings -- e.g. gzip compression -- transparently (wuftpd does let you request filenames with a .gz extension added for the same net effect, but it's hardly transparent, and you have to manually uncompress)

Once you get past setup/teardown, though, both HTTP and FTP are essentially shoving raw bytes down the pipe as fast as they can.

konqueror!

[FranzB]

Has anyone here read the specs for konqueror the kde browser and filemanager? It's really awesome! I say thanks to all the developers of KDE2! You can't imagine how great my relief is to finally have a decent internet browser on my linux desktop. No more restarting netscape, no more waiting for mozilla menus to come up.... Again THANK YOU KDE TEAM! cheers

Re:Diff packages from 1.93 version?

[FranzB]

why don't you update your packages by cvsup...it's easy and fast. Look out for "cvsup" at the KDE Website cheers Franz

Re:RedHat packages ?

[Xibby]

*Sometimes* makefiles have a make uninstall option. But that is a slight flaw in the nature of package managment, if there isn't an actual package, things could get messy.

I personally use stow to manage software that isn't part of the distribution. When compiling, --prefix=/usr/local/stow/package-name then build as normal. When it's done, cd to /usr/local/stow and type stow package-name, and stow creates symlinks in /usr/local. Slick. To remove, stow -D package-name, rm -rf /usr/local/stop/package-name