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KDE 3.2.1 Released
TheSurfer writes "The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.1 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2 and is available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik). Sources and contributed packages are linked on the KDE 3.2.1 info page."
the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes
Please don't put such things on the main page, we have enough boring flame wars already...
latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop
I'm not sure I'd agree with this statement. KDE Suffers from many shortcomings over Gnome, and visa versa. I'd agree with ONE of the most advanced and powerful, but not THE most advanced and powerful.
Just my $0.02 worth.
-- DuckWing
That should read Croatian. Serbian is Cyrillic. Unless, Croatian is already a supported language, then this would be more like a redneck dialect.
-- Len
They didnt go gold, only the comunity went out. Not that it means that kde3.2.1 will be in the final. It Would be a nice move tho', since some of those bugs are really bothering.
Poor Mandrake, seems like every time they go gold on a release one of the major components gets a major upgrade :)
Not true:
First, Mandrake 10.0 was NOT the final release, it was the community release. The final release of Mandrake 10.0 (due soonish) will have all the fixes and whatever else is desired.
Secondly (don't quote me on this), but I believe many of Mandrake's KDE 3.2 packages have the various patches needed to make it a better desktop all around.
Sunny Dubey
Tajikistan is a populous -- if poor at the moment -- nation.
Hopefully, the horrible legacy of the USSR will diminish with years and the country will prosper. If someone from there found the time and translated parts of KDE to Tajik -- they should be applauded, rather than mocked.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
However, it is difficult to deny that in the realm of classical literature your people loom much larger than their mere numbers.
.OW! Sorry. I'm better now.
The importance of a language goes far beyond such trivialities as how many people speak it. What they have to say is also of great social and political import.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me. . .
KFG
OS/X suffers from the same fatal flaw as WinXP -- it is a lot easier to learn if you have no prior experience. It is really good for people with no computer skills.
However, if you've been using computers for a while and are familiar with something else, both seem like a royal pain and are confusing because everything isn't where it was.
But, again, for people with no prior computing experience it wins hands down.
-Charles
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
What, non-Gentoo compilers are faster now? Your version of GCC is different than others?
And I don't understand peoples' problems with Gentoo. It's not as if you have to sit in front of your computer as things compile...
Granted, it says great things about Apple that the most anyone can come up with is the lack of a 2nd mouse button. However, given that EVERYONE IN THE FREAKING UNIVERSE thinks that multiple mouse buttons are more usable, and has thought that way for, oh, the last 15 years or so, why doesn't Apple just swallow their pride and provide a mouse with a 2nd (or 3rd, this *is* UNIX after all) button? Why should someone have to spend $7 for a new mouse at Radio Shack when Apple could just include one from the get go? Apple users are like Porsche owners. It's only when the new model comes out that they can admit the glaring flaws in the old. For years Mac users talked about how stable the OS was. Then when OSX came out everyone was saying, "Finally, it doesn't crash anymore. OS9 had real stability problems." Admit it, the day Apple includes a 2 button mouse everyone will be talking about how the old mouse was dated and how Apple's pushed the Mac to new levels of productivity.
More to the point, perhaps, is that Low Saxon doesn't even have its own defined orthography, so I'm at a certain loss how it can be supported as a written language.
Still, someone considered it important enough, perhaps for sociological reasons, to make the "translation." Much as a Welshman might be perfectly comfortable in English, but prefer to conduct himself in Welsh at times.
KFG