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KDE 3.0 Beta 2 is out

Posted by HeUnique on from the looks-pretty-good dept.

Subject says all - the next beta of KDE 3.0 is out, after a short delay. You can find the downloads at this announcement. Click below to read more details about this version. One of the most important things that the Konqueror teams wants from people are test cases of your regulary visited pages, where Konqueror either fails to render or render things incorrectly, and submit it using KDE's Bug Tracking system. URL's will not be helpful as it takes lots of time to strip a page from all the HTML code in order to find the actual problematic part of the web page.

Just to save the search for some people: Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and Tru-64 binary packages are available now. Others will be available soon. Source code is of course available also.

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  1. Re:Redhat? by rseuhs · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    RedHat hates KDE, that's why they do as few packages as possible.

    (Yes, it's RedHat's fault that there are no RH-packages, not KDE's. All other distros are also doing their packages on their own.)

  2. Re:what about FreeBSD binaries? by Agent+Drek · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    from source? as opposed to coming magically into being via the machine code fairies?

  3. Great. by Mr.+Piccolo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Another KDE release. Woo hoo.

    So, is it as easy to use as Windows XP Home Edition yet? If not, I'm not buying. And neither will 265 million other computer users.

    It's the truth. No moderation can change that.

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  4. Re:Karma Suicide!! by Sj0 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    because as we all know....

    imagine a beowolf cluster of hot grits since BSD is dying!

    Now *that* is how you commit karma suicide!
    That's also how to get flamed out of existance by small-minded idiots!

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  5. Re:Redhat? by rseuhs · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Um... At that time, neither Red Hat nor Debian was shipping KDE due to licensing conflicts. KDE was under GPL. It depended on QT, which was not licensed in a compatible manner, which isn't allowed by the GPL.

    Did you read my post? Obviously not, because it's exactly what I said.

    It's pretty obvious that the licence holders (the KDE-authors) had nothing against linking it with Qt, so many distributions shipped Qt and KDE and were not sued for it by the KDE-team. This whole licensing-thing is none of RedHat's business anyway.

    Note that this situation was not resolved by Red Hat bending to their users requests, but by Trolltech's licensing QT under the GPL.

    Yeah, Trolltech realized that using the GPL instead of QPL would change nada except taking an argument away from the KDE-haters.