GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released

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GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released

Posted by timothy on Monday May 19, 2003 @05:54AM 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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Re:Woohoo! More Format Wars! by sisukapalli1 · 2003-05-19 05:58 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

S
I had no idea.... by frodo+from+middle+ea · 2003-05-19 06:00 · 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 · 2003-05-19 06:16 · 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.
2. Re:I had no idea.... by DarrylM · 2003-05-19 06:40 · 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
3. Re:I had no idea.... by Cnik70 · 2003-05-19 06:45 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I totally agree with you on this one. I was a die hard RH fan up till 8.0 came out. Within days I grabbed a copy of SuSE 8.1 and haven't looked back ever since. I still believe the RH makes a good distro, but I really did not like how they mangled KDE and the ability to easily customize it.
  
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  -Cnik
4. Re:I had no idea.... by Kesha · 2003-05-19 07:24 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  In RH9 they screwed up the KDE panel, the Icons look really bad when you set the panel size to "small". This bug was not in vanilla KDE. They also insist on changing all the KDE panel contents every time I log in. I have four Linux boxes at home running on NFS/NIS. When I log in to RH9 on the server, it does something to my Desktop customizations. I then log in to RH7.3 in my room and the vanilla KDE is screwed up because RH9 has "upgraded" me to their KDE flavour.
  
  The solution appeared to me to upgrade all four boxes to the same level, and I was pissed off enough at RedHat to have gone to SuSE instead. Why? Because their KDE does not suck as much, and because all of their system configuration tools are written in Qt, which makes them consistent with the rest of the desktop.
  
  I know that this is getting off topic, but I also would like to mention that SuSE is cheaper (the Pro version), comes with great documentation, and supports ALSA. Also, RH9 did not recognize my TV card on setup, but SuSE did - more points for SuSE. And another thing - SuSE employes KDE coders, so I would rather compensate them by purchasing the SuSE Linux.
  
  Paul.
How Much Longer by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-19 06:02 · Score: 5, Funny

What is the expected release date of the much anticipated KDE 3.11 for Workgroups?

I assume that will be followed by KDE 95....
1. Re:How Much Longer by hal200 · 2003-05-19 06:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'm just waiting for KDE Pi (3.1.4.....)
  
  --
  I just want to take over the world...Why does that automatically make me EVIL?
Re:So when by mindriot · 2003-05-19 06:06 · Score: 5, Funny

It seem SCO Group only considers suing the best...

Oh, cool! We'll finally get the answer to the long GNOME-or-KDE religious battle... just wait and see who gets sued by SCO first...

;->
Re:Don't bother to install Gnome 2.3.1 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-19 06:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't bother to install Gnome 2.3.1, according to Apple. OS X is better.
Uggh, released already? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-19 06:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Geez, and I'm still trying to compile kde 3.1.1 on
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.
Larry the cow says. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-19 06:16 · Score: 5, Funny

__________________ / just great, another \ \ all-nigher emerge! / ------------------ \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
Re:I have to say I'm psyched! And I just can't wai by cdemon6 · 2003-05-19 06:23 · 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) :)
Re:A heritage desktop for Linux? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-19 06:34 · Score: 5, Funny

This isn't really an issue for most Linux users, because most Linux users are dirty communist hippies anyway.

Real, patriotic Americans, stimulate the economy by purchasing new Dell PCs, which come pre-loaded with a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows XP Professional.

Socialism, Communism, and Linux are for backwards European countries and for jealous nations like Canada--a country that silently ignores the fact that 90% of its population live within 250 miles of its border with the United States.