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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. I had no idea.... by frodo+from+middle+ea · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was reading all tha anti-radhat commotions regarding KDE and frankly I never understood what the fuss was all about.
    But now that i switched to gentoo (this is not ment to be gentoo praise), i finally realise how much can i customise KDE.
    But then again i am not sure if RH crippled KDE enough to be non-customisable.
    ROCK on KDE.

    --
    for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
    1. Re:I had no idea.... by Kesha · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Yeah, I was not sure either. I've been a RedHat user almost from the start (RH 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3). I hand built KDE-3.1 on RedHat 7.3 from CVS, and was happy with it.

      A while ago I upgraded to RH9, nearly tore my hair out after seeing what they did to KDE, and promptly switched to SuSE 8.2 professional (plus got a cool T-shirt from SuSE).

      I have long ago decided that if the stories are true I would let my wallet speak for me, and I believe RedHat 7.3 was the last RedHat I will ever have paid for. I am a SuSE user from now on. I wish RedHat better luck with GNOME, but I have made my choice, and it is KDE. Honestly, I wish RedHat would not support KDE at all instead of making changes to it that will never be accepted back into the KDE source tree, it's just a waste of effort that could be better spent on GNOME.

      Paul.