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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. what about FreeBSD binaries? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It turns out that a large silent number of
    people are running KDE (and GNOME) desktops
    under not *linux, but under FreeBSD. It would
    be nice if more FreeBSD binary packages were
    built.

    1. Re:what about FreeBSD binaries? by JabberWokky · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Why does KDE produce binaries for a few selected Linux distros, but not for other distros or other operating systems?

      KDE does not produce any binaries.

      Let me say that again: KDE DOES NOT PRODUCE BINARIES... they ONLY release source. Any binaries that are available at a version release were created by the distros themselves. It's in just about every single FAQ that KDE produces.

      KDE aims for portability against just about every X and *nix out there, including AIX, Solaris, BSD and Linux. I mention those in particular because there are KDE developers who use each as their primary platform. About the only drawback to the "source only" policy is the occasional distro that releases a binary with all the debugging turned on, or gif support turned off, etc. But that has gotten more rare with better documentation.

      --
      Evan

      --
      "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
  2. No jumbo packages please by 2Bits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This applies to KDE as well as Gnome.

    These two environments tend to come with huge packages (e.g. gnome-applets, kdenetwork, kdemultimedia, kdegraphics, koffice, ...).

    Sometimes, you just need one or two in the packages, and you are forced to install the whole jumbo packages. Why? Why can't we pick and choose?

    E.g. I use Kword sometimes for simple word processing, but I never use the spreadsheet and the presentation app. Same for kdenetwork. I use KMail and KNode, but I don't need korn,ktalkd,ksirc,.... And kdemultimedia, I don't do MIDI stuff, and I don't want to waste 10MB for timidity++ and other junks.

    Oh yeah, same for Gnome. Why do I need to install the whole gnome-applet package if I only need one applet? Same for other jumbo packages.

    I'm on RPM-based distro. How about apt-get-based?
    I don't know the internal details of the code, but isn't there a way to separate them out?