KDE 2.2 Tagged

ByTor-2112 writes "According to dot.kde.org, KDE 2.2 has been tagged out. Awesome." Plans were originally to release 2.2 today, but scheduled release is now next Monday, to allow some time for more stability/speed work. 2.2 rocks my world. Excellent work on the part of all the KDE developers. Other dates mentioned are 2.2.1 in September, and opening work up on 3.0, which will hopefully come out at the beginning of 2002.

Comments

Re:Great timing

[gmhowell]

Funny thing: you got blasted for what is essentially the truth.

I used to be able to rely on moderation. It used to work. Now the moderators seem to be turning /. into what many of its critics claim: a place where you are only respected for towing the company line.

Anyway, screw it. I've had a +2, I've hit the karma cap. May as well have some fun on the way down.

ok, time for a poll

[Ender Ryan]

My desktop of choice is...

1. GNOME
2. KDE
3. Enlightenment
4. Window Maker
5. Blackbox
6. Other

We always have articles about KDE and GNOME, and there is always fighting about which is going to kill the other. Personally, I use GNOME, but I use some KDE apps and hope both projects continue well into the future as they draw ideas off each other. But, it sure would be interesting to see how much support both have.

The new features in KDE 2.2 sound really interesting, I will definately be checking it out just for fun. I've switched between KDE and GNOME a number of times, maybe this will be the release that gets me to change sides again ; )

Re:Why???

[zulux]

Why do these poor fools bother. Linux will be completely dead in a couple of months.

Once XP ships, Linux tanks for the last time.

Ok. I'll bite, Mr. Troll. Linuix and other GPL/BSD based operating-systems and programs have been 'tanking' for the last 15 years. And gaining more market share all the way.

On second though, maby you just confused the word 'tanking' with the word that means: gaining market share day by day and having fun doing it.

Re:Great timing

[JabberWokky]

Since AOL came onto the net. No seriously. I'll explain (with the caveat that while I had a .edu account, most of my early stuff was via Delphi).

Very very ironic. I can't remember the exact order, but I clearly remember everybody on "my" froups (alt.cult-movies.rocky-horror, alt.tasteless, alt.folklore.urban-legend, ect.) all bitching about how much things dropped when the Delphoids hit usenet, then when the Compuserve people (or visa versa). When Prodigy announced usenet access, we gave up. AOL was a fairly late player, and the usenetscape had been pretty much devirginized by then.

Keep in mind that this was *before* the web existed. Sometime in the early 90s, a friend downloaded and installed Mosaic .9 or so on the X machine next to mine. He showed me (plain text and images on grey), and I said: "It's nifty, but it'll never replace gopher".

Oops.

--
Evan

Re:Great timing

[gmhowell]

To clarify:

I had the .edu first. I picked up Delphi when preparing to transfer schools. I figured having a relatively stable email address, kill files, etc. was fairly important. They had access prior to CIS or AOL. Or maybe CIS was first. If CIS was first, I went with Delphi because it was cheaper.

But, like anyone who moves into a new area, they want to be the last one in the gated community. All those 'new-comers' screwed it up.

But to the earlier question, I think that the idea of staying on topic was happening prior to the web being a big thing.

Re:Fuck toast!

[sporkraper]

You could launch one right off the coast, assuming you took care of the Navy first. Right now all their ships are reeling from SirCam and Code Red.

Re:Fuck toast!

[sporkraper]

Briliant language parser exploit. I am now patched.