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KDE 2.2 Released

Posted by Hemos on from the come-and-get-it dept.

Well, we had covered it being tagged last week, and now, after a hardware problem with one of the main download servers, KDE is ready for download. Except that you'll probably want to go to the mirrors to actually get it. You can get more about it about it from Dre's dot.kde post, or you can read the KDE announcement - and have a good time!

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  1. Re:Work with the GNOME people (and vice versa) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, KDE do not work with GNOME! Just let them be and they will slowly die and fade away. There is no point in helping to sustain that GNOME shit.

  2. Re:This isn't free market by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Cry and whine to the Golden Winkie. It might care.

    8=====D

  3. Sort of a flame, but its the truth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Many at this point will bring up Gnome and I know what follows is sort of a flame, but KDE has proven itself to be the most mature and stable GUI in the desktop linux market(however small that is). KDE should continue on their own path and not worry about what Gnome is doing. Gnome is the follower in this case and does not really have a future in the same sense that KDE does. Its best that you get the few remaining Gnome users and developers to shift their support to KDE at this point. This is the only way for linux to attain the "world domination" everyone has either joked about or tried for the past 4 years. If you want to keep linux fragmented keep supporting two bitter rival desktops and the market share will stay where it is. If this doesn't happen, you all are in for five more years of "why does X port Y to linux" and "why doesn't company X release the drivers for linux". I've been down that road for too many years with the linux camp and being fed up have decided to move on to Win2k for desktops since it is and industry standard(or least a supported standard). Maybe someday I will root for the linux desktop again, but not until it gets its desktop standard together. AC

  4. Re:Does it run with Mac OS X? by Genoaschild · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Or not ... I think most of the Linux community doesn't want a pretty interface, the so-called "eye candy" but something that won't get in the way of their work. I use IceWM, blackbox, Enlightment, and occassionally TWM and they are all pretty ugly in comparison to Aqua but they get the job done and they don't cost you an arm and a leg in resource usage.

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    Just because a bunch of people believe or do something stupid, doesn't make it any less stupid.
  5. Re:Perceived problems with KDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You are a goat arse.