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KDE 3.2.0 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-gui-on dept.

Quique writes "KDE 3.2 has just been released. The official announcement is available at the KDE site and the source tarballs are being replicated to the mirrors. There are already binary packages for a few distributions. Besides the usual bugfixes and new features, this release has been highly optimized and runs way faster than previous versions. This is a good opportunity for Windows users to migrate to a free desktop."

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  1. Re:yes! by ajs318 · · Score: 1, Troll

    What are you smoking? "Expensive to develop for" ? No it isn't. The necessary libraries, and even the compiler, are distributed under the GPL. That means you can get them for the cost of the media.

    Of course, you have to release whatever you developed under an open-source licence. But then again, you should anyway -- source-hoarding is 21st century slavery. Other people wrote that software, and they wrote it for everyone to use. Put it this way: don't stab in the back, those whose backs you have ridden on.

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  2. Re:Gentoo E-build? No files to be seen. Yet. by md17 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please mod the parent down. The poster doesn't know what they are talking about. See the other reply to the parent's parent on how to unmask the kde-3.2 ebuilds.

  3. Re:How faster? by Enahs · · Score: 0, Troll
    It takes less than 6 on my lower-end machine. Now, bear in mind that when I say "lower end" it is above the 1GHz level (still higher-end to some smelly hippies) but it's a VIA Ezra (ick) with 512MB of RAM. Oh, and just to throw in another bottleneck (other than the low-end drive controller) KDE is on an EXT3 filesystem on my machine.

    Still not blazing fast, but not as limited as XFCE.

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  4. Re:yes! by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Troll

    But you should be developing open source software anyway, or not developing at all. If you want to develop closed source, then you have already lost my sympathy, and the sympathy of the entire Open Source movement.

    Closed source software is an abomination that should never have been allowed to happen. The fruits of all human endeavour belong to all of humanity, and it is not for anyone to deprive people of the benefits of progress for their own short-term financial gain.

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