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KDE 3.2 Release Candidate 1 Debuts

Posted by simoniker on from the run-kde-and-jam-master-jay dept.

danalien writes "Before a early Feb. release of the (stable) KDE 3.2, KDE has today announced the first 'Release Candidate', and hopefully the last pre-release, for its 'Open Source graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations'. Get it from download.kde.org, or use Konstruct if you don't feel like calling configure by yourself."

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  1. Kool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    KDE is pretty kool. Aktually it's uber kool. I've konstantly kaught myself kakkling at their konstant play with K and K. Err.. K and K. Damn K and K... you know what i mean

  2. Mirrors by vpscolo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remeber the mirrors http://www.kde.org/mirrors/ftp.php Rus

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  3. The Developers by GenomeX · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have to also say how impressed I am with the guys developing KDE. We once picked up a bug somewhere, mailed them with the problem,ect. Within a half an hour I think, they posted a patch for that specific problem. Amazing.

  4. Features by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 5, Informative

    KDE 3.2 Feature Plan

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    1. Re:Features by MagicM · · Score: 5, Informative

      Might want to pull that from the Google Cache

  5. run-kde-and-jam-master-jay by Limburgher · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's nice. And appropriate, since KDE is Tougher Than Leather. :)

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  6. In other news... by stealth.c · · Score: 5, Funny
    Bruce Perens finally confessed that his reasons for embracing GNOME rather than KDE were "...a severe lack of Gs, and far too many Ks. All technical aspects aside, I knew RMS would roast me if I chose something that didn't start with a G."

    Honestly, I think KDE is a technical masterpiece. It gives me a GUI which can easily be configured in pretty much every conceivable way.

    GNOME, MacOS, and Windows just don't have that kind of room for personality.

  7. Re:Why Open Source for Linux Only? by LMCBoy · · Score: 5, Informative

    KDE does not run only on Linux, it also runs on the BSD's, Solaris, and (just recently and still in development) Mac OS X.

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  8. Re:Why Open Source for Linux Only? by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 5, Informative
    You mean like KDE-Cygwin, or QKW? I guess in the future if these get mature enough you could replace Windows Explorer with Konqueror/KDesktop/Kicker...

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  9. Konqueror changes from Apple? by Tengoo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does anyone know how many of Apple's changes have made it into Konqueror?
    It would be interesting to know how useful the Safari team's contributions have been.

    1. Re:Konqueror changes from Apple? by entrigant · · Score: 5, Informative

      Many of the weekly CVS digests include merged changes from Apple. While I have no idea how many have been merged, a great deal have, and I would venture to say that the Safari team has been very helpful.

  10. Obligatory Monty Python sketch quote by Mjlner · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well... At least it should be obligatory...

    ..."Yes, I saw your advert in the bolour supplement."
    "The what?"
    "The bolour supplement!"
    "The colour supplement?"
    "Yes. I'm sorry I can't say the letter B."
    "C?"
    "Yes, that's right. It's all due to a trauma I suffered when I was a spoolboy. I was attacked by a bat."
    "A cat?"
    "No, a bat."
    "Can you say the letter 'K'?"
    "Oh yes. Khaki, king, kettle, Kuwait, Keble Bollege Oxford."
    "Why don't you use the letter 'K' instead of the letter 'C'?"
    "What do you mean ... spell bolour with a 'K'?"
    "Yes."
    "Kolour... Oh, that's very good, I never thought of that."

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  11. Re:KDE most impressive open source project - ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Controversial in some ways since you cannot develop commercial software with it without paying a pretty expensive license.

    No - you can't develop proprietary software with it without paying a license that's priced around average for libraries of this sort. Since it's also available under the GPL, there's nothing to stop you selling your QT software as long as it's GPL'd.

    Why is this controversial? Nobody complains that useful libraries like GNU readline are under the GPL - and in the case of readline, you don't even have the option of buying a proprietary license, because the FSF ain't selling one! But somehow that is "good", whereas the same license applied to QT is "bad".

    Posted anonymously because I really am a coward - and while I don't think the above is trolling or flamebait, I don't trust the moderators to realise. Guys, if you want to mod this down, please use "redundant", since this debate has been had to death many a time. Although given the grandparent's igorance of the issue, maybe setting out the arguments yet again isn't actually redundant for everyone.