KDE 3.0.1 Ships

Andreas "Dre" Pour writes "Short on the heels of the remarkably successful launch of the KDE 3 series with a very stable and complete KDE 3.0 last month, the KDE Project has announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.0.1. While primarily a translation release, it also squashes some bugs, including some minor security issues with the HTML engine. Read the (relatively short) announcement and the fairly complete ChangeLog for more info. Binary packages are already available from the stalwart KDE packagers at Compaq Tru64, Conectiva Linux, Mandrake Linux and SuSE Linux. As always, we hope you enjoy the latest and greatest KDE!"

Comments

Re:Modular solution

[TheICEBear]

Actually the reason for Konqueror and KHTML is the really tight integration of the system components and IO substructure of KDE.
KDE has a brilliantly easy to use component technology called KParts, which is good for Desktop use and a equally great (and extremely useful) IO system called KIO, which is used in combination with KHTML and KJS (the JavaScript engine) to make Konqueror a browser.

Now it could be basically possible to use Gecko (the HTML/XML/XUL renderer of Mozilla) like they do in Galeon, but honestly when they began writing Konqueror Mozilla just wasn't something useful and there was and is no release quality Gecko port to Qt, which is absolutely required for an integrated browser.
Now for normal browsing both browsers are greatly useful and I do use both (Mozilla RC2 and Konqueror for KDE 3.0). But honestly to me Konqueror is just more friendly for general work, while I use my Mozilla for netbanking (mostly due to the really insistent browser ID checking of the banking webapp).

It's all good, all the time
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Re:Debian???

[HiThere]

But you need a really fast network connection. Don't try it with a modem.

There's an install CD, but it puts in only a base system. You still need to download everything else. (Of course, this condition is subject to change without notice.)

Re:question: combining big releases and P2P?

[ViXX0r]

I would think, mainly for content control, and abuse of said network.

Sure, they can post MD5 sums on the website for people to verify them against, but I don't think that many people actually bother doing that. I imagine for safety, I'd probably download from a central server (web page/ftp site) even if such a P2P infrastructure were in place, simply for the fact that I can be reasonably assured that it hasn't been tampered with.

Additionally I would think it wouldn't be too long before miscreants started finding ways to share their warez on the network as well, giving it a bad name. Of course, we could continually fix the network against such uses, but they'd continually find ways into it. I'd much rather have the [kernel|KDE|gnome|etc.] developers working on their respective projects than on some peer to peer network.

I know the ftp sites can get fairly flooded, but I started getting KDE 3.0.1 from ftp.kde.org when I first saw the news this morning and got well over 100K/s here in Canada - doesn't seem so bad to me.