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

RedHat RPM's

[robtm]

Are the KDE 3.0.1 RedHat RPM's out?
Where?

KDELook.org

[Foxman98]

For those of you who are not aware of this site, www.kde-look.org is a great site for all kinds of themes, icons and backgrounds. Check out some of the work there, especially mosfet's liquid theme and the crystal ikons.

One to ponder

[Rogerborg]

• I grudge paying money for Microsoft products, I'm constantly disappointed when they fall short of my expectations, and when they roll out the regular fixes for products that had been billed as the most stable ever, I grunt in annoyance.
• I buy boxed Linux distros even though I don't have to, I'm constantly delighted when they surpass my expecations, and when they roll out the regular fixes for products that had been billed as the most stable ever, I go "Yippee! Now it's even better!".

We've been debating what it is Microsoft fears about open source. It's probably not the money (in the mid term) and I'm not even sure that it's the pressure to open their source (in the short term). Right now, the big different for me as a consumer is that I feel good about buying and upgrading Linux based distros. It actually makes me happy. The last time Microsoft made me feel even vaguely like that was with Windows 3.1

I wonder if what they fear is that they've dug themselves into a position (with software as a service active for business and threatened for consumers) where they can't persuade people to pay them more money voluntarily, and instead they have to go down the slippery slope of coercing and compelling. That can't be a good long term prospect for them.