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.

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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.

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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.