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KDE 3.2.2 Released

Posted by simoniker on from the oh-kay dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.2, a maintenance release for the 'advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes'. The new version provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and enhanced support for existing translations. Mirrors found here."

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  1. First "Just emerged 3.2.1!" post! by Otter · · Score: 3, Funny
    Man, Gentoo over a dialup connection has its drawbacks! And I don't want to even think about the update to OpenOffice that just appeared in portage.

    On the plus side, I do get to try out every last point release of gawk and grep.

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  2. Re:Sorry, someone had to say it by lambent · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A wise man once said, "If you don't like it, don't read it."

    As for the veracity of their obviously hyperbole-laden claims, I'd be happy if I could get the freaking PDF embedding to work right in konqueror.

    But really, do you expect them to say something like, "KDE ... not really the best at what it is, nor is it the most powerful, but we'd sure like you to give it a try, anyway"

    Marketing 101: your product is the best. Apple got in trouble because they said their computers are the fastest, which is quite easily disputed.

    Saying that your stuff is the 'greatest' is rather more subjective.

    (BTW: I like KDE, but I absolutely hate the KIO_Slaves.)

  3. Re:Surely this must be old news?!? by Phexro · · Score: 4, Informative

    KDE CVS gets tagged a week before the announcement is made, so you'll usually see Debian packages before the 'official' release.

  4. Re:Sorry, someone had to say it by molnarcs · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I don't think they are more arrogant than any business. Your gripe seems to be with this: "most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes." They don't say there are no alternatives, they say they are the best. Prove them wrong before you say they're arrogant. KDE has more features and applications available than the other Window Managers/Desktop Environments combined. Underneath you'll find a clean and component based codebase - and face it, QT is far more advanced than alternative FREE toolkits.

    In fact, that's where Bruce Perens was wrong when said QT being GPL, its not as attractive for business as the LGPL gtk. And yes, QT development is very much tied to KDE development (some of the KDE developers also work for Trolltech). So despite now LGPL being considered more free (what a turn of events!), they have every right to claim that KDE is the most advanced Free desktop for gnu/linux and other unices. It has the same technology that the following companies choose to licence, despite the alleged 'high' cost (if they payed, it must be THAT good):

    Of course, there are many points that can be successfully argued in favor of other alternatives, but we don't have to strech the truth too much (unlike other company ads - "Secure By Design" anyone?) to argue that they have the most powerful/advanced desktop solutions. In other words, they are not only do what everyone else does (marketing), but they also do it from a defendable position. There is nothing wrong with that, and you must be from Mars or something to consider it arrogance. (Or, despite the usual 'I'm objective cause I use both' disclaimar, you might be one of those 'G' zealots :-P)
  5. Re:Sorry, someone had to say it by scrytch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does anyone else ever notice how arrogant the KDE announcements are? They make statements like this: "The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.2, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes."

    You're right. They should instead follow the usual OSS Software release announcement.

    "I just released EDK 0.00001 pre-alpha-test-4. It crashes when starting up, but it's otherwise got most of the features I was looking for. Go ahead and give it a try, but if it doesn't work, go back to using something else."

    But I have been trolled, alas.

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  6. Re:KDE On Windows by e8johan · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is how you do it: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/index. php