KDE 2.2.2

loopkin writes: "Seems that the last KDE 2 is out. KDE 2.2.2 is faster and more stable and secure than 2.2.1, as stated in the Changelog. You will appreciate the trick that makes the icons load 5% faster in particular. Announcement is here. Please use mirrors for download, but original FTP is here. Note as well that maybe for the first time, there are _official_ RH packages for a _stable_ release (7.2)."

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SuSE RPM's

[pwagland]

SuSE has already had these RPMs out for a couple of days. This has KDE 2.2.2 for SuSE the various SuSE versions on the various platforms.

Please note that these are not officially

They also have a similar service for Gnome.

As always, use the mirrors Luke...

Re:SuSE RPM's

[bero-rh]

If this is true, it means they either broke the kde-packager agreement or packaged a CVS version and called it 2.2.2. They weren't supposed to release 2.2.2 binary packages before the official release, neither was anyone else.

Re:SuSE RPM's

[pwagland]

Appologies for the confusion, it turns out that while it has been two sleeps, it has only been one day since I installed them.

I do not know exactly when the packages turned up, but I installed them Wed Nov 21 00:59:53 CET 2001.

My best guess on the SuSE packages is that they arrived on the 21st, i.e. the same day that KDE announced it, but, one day before slashdot announced it.

Mind you, on a related note. Know how I discovered that XFree4.2.0 has been frozen? Because 4.2.0 drivers for my ATI card have been released. Now, I just need to wait for 4.2.0... :-)

Re:Objprelink?

[bero-rh]

prelink works better (if your ld.so and binutils support it), and fixes the whole problem rather than just adding a workaround for the specific case of KDE.

Re:Are 5% speedup noticable ?

[bero-rh]

(using RH 7.2 packages - i don't know if they were objprelink-build - Bero, if you read me, how did u build those packages ?)

They aren't built with objprelink because I consider objprelink a crude hack.

prelink is a much nicer solution (it does prelinking for the whole system, not just the KDE libraries), and you can't use both at the same time.

No unusual tweaks applied to the packages... But they were built with a newer compiler (gcc 2.96-100), maybe Jakub added some optimizations on the compiler side, as well.

Re:Question

[grytpype]

You have the right idea for sure... just run WindowMaker, and if you want to run an occasional KDE or Gnome app, just run it. Forget about that "desktop" idiom B.S., that's just an over-the-hill paradigm that isn't worth the extra overhead to run.

I mean, I just got a 1.2 GHz Athlon box, and I have no intention of giving up my nice, barebones WM desktop. It's perfect.

No speed difference

[srichman]

I just installed 2.2.2, and there is no real noticeable speed difference in my opinion. Icons 5% faster? Maybe, but if KDE 2.2.1 was too slow to be usable on your system, KDE 2.2.2 will be as well.

Re:RedHat 7.1?

[bero-rh]

Spontaneously, I don't see any extra requirements you'd need to update on 7.1, aside from those provided on ftp.kde.org (libxml2, libxslt, qt).

But 7.1 was LOOONG ago, so don't expect me to remember everything about it. ;)

Re:Redhat Linux 7.2 is "stable"?????

[bero-rh]

The reason you're perceiving 7.2 as less stable is that we're releasing more errata packages these days - which does not necessarily mean the initial packages were all that bad.
KDE 2.2-* (as shipped with 7.2) wasn't bad, and nevertheless we'll release the 2.2.2 packages in errata as soon as QA approved them.