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GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released

Posted by timothy on from the floor-wax-dessert-topping dept.

BSD Forums writes "The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.1 "Daddy Walrus", is now available. FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke has ported this release (2.3) on FreeBSD and is looking for your testing help. Also, the KDE Project announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.1.2, a maintenance release for the third generation of this UNIX desktop."

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  1. Don't bother to install Gnome 2.3.1 by twener · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't bother to install Gnome 2.3.1, according to Gnome's release schedule 2.3.2 is to be released in two days.

    1. Re:Don't bother to install Gnome 2.3.1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      The 2.3 series is intended for developers. So it shouldn't matter if they have to reinstall a week later.

      Oh, and 2.3.2 will take more than 2 days. There is a delay on the schedule that you can notice if you look at the release date of 2.3.1

  2. KDE 3.1.2 Changelog by twener · · Score: 4, Informative

    The link to the KDE 3.1.2 change log is missing in the story. And for the case you missed it, the KDE 3.1 New Feature Guide and the KDE 3.1 Screenshots are still available.

    1. Re:KDE 3.1.2 Changelog by asteinberg · · Score: 4, Informative

      Pretty interesting to see that the changelog contains almost nothing major - just a small handful of "fixed ___ bug". I'd say that's a good sign that the KDE 3.1.x line is nice and mature and stable.

      Bring on 3.2 :)

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  3. Re:Desktop war in news? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, for better or for worse, here's my take:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=64474&cid=5978 761

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  4. Re:I have to say I'm psyched! And I just can't wai by cdemon6 · · Score: 5, Informative

    >>> I have to say I'm psyched! And I just can't wait for 2005 to come around, when I can pull them out of debian stable. ;)

    what about pulling it right now?

    just use unstable as i do... if you want debian as a desktop unstable is a very good choice, don't think this unstable would actually mean unstable in the commen sense.

    in fact, it is even considered to be more stable that testing by many people (not all people, no flaimbait please) :)

  5. Re:My one KDE feature request by echo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Add an icon into the K menu for your script (using the menu editor)... you can set a keyboard shortcut to execute this script in menu editor as well.

    Right click on the K menu to access menu editor.

  6. Re:I had no idea.... by DarrylM · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you are using Redhat and love KDE, I would highly suggest checking out the KDE-Redhat project on SourceForge. Rex and his group have done an excellent job of building & optimizing the KDE packages for Redhat versions and, if you are using apt-rpm, it's fairly easy to keep up-to-date with their builds.

    Cheers!

    Darryl

  7. Re:It's about time... for switching desktops by twener · · Score: 3, Informative

    You should read the weekly KDE CVS Digest if you're so eager to read about new features.

  8. Re:I have to say I'm psyched! And I just can't wai by terkozer · · Score: 4, Informative
    Actually, pop this into your apt.sources

    deb http://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1.2/Debian stable main

    And you can have the latest & greatest KDE running on stable.