KDE 3.2 Alpha 1 Finally on FTP

An anonymous reader cut-and-pastes from the announcement: "Stephan Kulow finally managed to get the last bits of the KDE 3.2 Alpha 1 codenamed 'Brokenboring' including KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 6 on the ftp server (the mirrors should soon pick it up). There won't be any binary packages for this release because the KDE 'P(a)i' release is coming out soon. Everyone using it is asked to compile it with --enable-debug, so we can get valuable feedback. There is a new unstable version of Konstruct to install it."

Comments

Re:Microsofts Nightmare.

[Overly Critical Guy]

Oh, please. Microsoft is busy hardware-accelerating their desktop, adding complete vector scaling, replacing Win32 with .NET, and creating a much-talked-about new photorealistic interface called Aero that nobody knows anything about yet. There are so many revolutionary new features of Longhorn that I can't list them all, from XML scripted modular installs to WinFS (which kicks the crap out of BeOS' pseudo-database filesystem).

I'm sorry, but Visual Studio .NET 2003 is still the absolute best IDE out there for development. The debugging capabilities alone are fantastic. Last I tried KDevelop, it kept crying for the documentation packages, which my distro didn't install because you apparently need the source code to have them. Bizarre.

As a desktop, KDE is very slow for me, so I use GNOME which is only a little better. KDE is too busy adding tons more crappy K-something apps to that mess of a menu while Microsoft is busy implementing the next generation of desktops. Maybe in another five years, KDE will finally catch up. :P

Re:HOWTO: Be an American

[abigor]

I guess that's why Canada has such an incredibly high violent crime rate, considering that handguns are extremely difficult to own.

Oh, wait a second.

Re:KDE most impressive open source project - ever

[Rogerborg]

Pounding yo momma's bleeding asshole usually does the trick. Mmm, prolaptastic.