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GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released
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."
Buddy... If you have to explain whether some "computer system" has a "standard for a freaking UI" to *FRIENDS AND FAMILY*, you probably have more to worry about than the format wars.
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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".
Isn't it fun to explain to how windows has no choice for a freaking UI to your friends and family?
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.
What's a desktop user to do if you're interested in American heritage and morality? It seems like the major choices for Linux desktop environments are between a European product (KDE and the underlying Qt library) and a Mexican product (Miguel's GNOME environment.) For those of us who are concerned about what kind of statement we make by using products from certain parts of the world, where does that leave us? Both Europe and Mexico basically told us to go eff ourselves during the recent liberation of Iraq. The UK was on our side, but the UK has never been heavily involved with the development of Qt/KDE.
Personally, I still find myself using FVWM. It's fast, lightweight, and (as far as I know) it's homegrown. However, it's old, and FVWM users such as myself are missing out on some of the newer Linux technology. Are there any plans for an American desktop environment? And do all Americans who are serious about boycotting products from states of concern really realize where KDE and GNOME come from? I think a lot of people might be unpleasantly surprised if they found out some of the things that they're supporting by using some of these foreign environments.
What is the expected release date of the much anticipated KDE 3.11 for Workgroups?
I assume that will be followed by KDE 95....
So when is the SCO Group lawsuits against Gnome an dKDe suppoed to be filed?
It seem SCO Group only considers suing the best..
Don't Tread on OpenSource
All this new GNOME and KDE stuff is great, but what I really want to know is, when will Ximian's release of GNOME 2.x be ready? Their GNOME 1.x release far surpassed what everyone else was doing with it at the time. If their 2.x is similarly superior, it's really going to be super slick.
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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.
my ancient Sun box. And now I need to stop that and
install kde 3.1.2? Probably by the time I'm finished with
that the kde folks will be up to 3.1.3
Well, the good thing about GNOME is it won't compile
at all on my Sun box, so no need to even bother.
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>>> 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)
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.
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.
I'd like to applaud the method the KDE team uses, releasing maintenance releases that focus on fixing bugs and improving stability.
I've seen too many patches and fixes that insist in introducing new components or functionality at the same time as a fix. The separation of "fix" and "feature" is a critical one for minimizing the number of new bugs introduced.
While KDE is by no means the only project where this is practiced, they are a big one and it is a method that should be praised and emulated whenever possible.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Here are the basic considerations:
1: You should install both if at all possible. There is a large and growing level of interop between the two libraries, and some of the GNOME applications are extremely advanced and powerful (Gnumeric, Evolution, etc.) Also KDE has many applications, so you may want to use them. And if you have both installed, you can use KDE apps on GNOME and vice versa.
2: As for which one to use, I think you should evaluate both. Gnome 2.x and Kde3.1.x are both very mature and useable desktops.
Here is what I would do. I would take 10 employees that seem of typical skill, set up GNOME and KDE on systems, and ask them to evaluate their uses.
One think I will say as a network admin, though is that once the LDAP backend is completed for GCONF, that will be very helpful for network support. Of course until it exists, treat it as vaporware, and judge based upon the current capabilities, not the promised future.
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
It wasn't amusing, it was just stupid. Everyone knows that the purpuse of Debian stable is to be stable, and therefore it does not carry development releases. Pointing that out every time a remotely-related thread comes around is utterly pointless.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.