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KDE 3.1.4 Released on FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on from the upgrade-ya-schlubs dept.

Dan writes "On September 16th 2003, the KDE Project released KDE 3.1.4. KDE 3.1.4 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and two vulnerabilities in KDM. Ports have been committed, binary packages for FreeBSD are available, including 4-STABLE, 5-RELEASE, check KDE on FreeBSD or your favorite mirror."

2 of 37 comments (clear)

  1. Re:freebsd and kde by JobeJD · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just set my package site to the fruitsalad project(see freebsd.kde.org) and fired up a pkg_add -r kde It worked beatifully, no hassle. Took about 30minutes on a mediocre DSL line.

  2. Re:Thanks, But No Thanks by desau · · Score: 5, Informative

    Qt doesn't care about cross-platform? What sort of crack are you smoking? Windows, Macintosh (including great support for OSX, Embedded Linux (for PDA's, etc..), and of course, X11 (including AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64, UnixWare 7, OpenUnix 8) are all supported.

    Heck, take a look at some of their success stories.. many of them are on non-'nix platforms. Even Adobe uses Qt for cross platform development.

    Don't get me wrong, Java is great for write once, run anywhere, but it'll never match the speed of native code. Qt is 'write once, compile and run anywhere', which gives far superiour performance to Java in graphic-intensive jobs (such as modern DE's).

    I'm not a trolltech employee, I just think they make a damn good cross-platform gui toolkit.