KDE 3.2.1 Released

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Posted by michael on Tuesday March 9, 2004 @10:20AM from the wh00t dept.

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."

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And here come the flame by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-09 10:24 · Score: 3, Insightful

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...
1. Re:And here come the flame by bogie · 2004-03-09 12:28 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Why not? Free Software isn't allowed to do any marketing? What so the people at KDE shouldn't be proud of their work? They should say "one of many Desktop Environments but really Gnome might be better?". Gimme a break pal.
  
  KDE has every right to say their software is the best. By all rights it IS the best Free Desktop for GNU/Linux or any Unix. I'd even argue its superior to the closed source OS X but that's a whole other ball of wax.
  
  It isn't a flame from the KDE camp, its A)marketing and B) mostly based in fact. Don't like it? Tough cookies.
  
  --
  If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
Latin Serbian!?!?! by LenE · 2004-03-09 10:31 · Score: 3, Insightful

That should read Croatian. Serbian is Cyrillic. Unless, Croatian is already a supported language, then this would be more like a redneck dialect.

-- Len
Re:The Mandrake curse? by phoxix · 2004-03-09 10:45 · Score: 3, Insightful

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
Insensitive clod (Re:Low Saxon) by mi · 2004-03-09 10:48 · Score: 4, Insightful

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.
Re:Low Saxon by kfg · 2004-03-09 11:47 · Score: 3, Insightful

However, it is difficult to deny that in the realm of classical literature your people loom much larger than their mere numbers.

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. . . .OW! Sorry. I'm better now.

KFG
Re:No right mouse button! by sneakers563 · 2004-03-09 12:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.