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KDE 3.3 Officially Released
scorp1us was one of several to note that KDE 3.3 has been released. You can also read the infopage and the requirements. Commence downloading. Features a new spell checking library, a new theme manager, and much more.
*cough*
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KDE 3.3 Screenshots at the bottom of that page.
Of course gentoo has had it in beta for the last month.
My own personal experience with it is that it's even faster then before (Not quite blackbox speed but it is approching...). kmail has spam filtering built in. All of the multimedia mime things work in Konqueror (that I could see). Still can't get konqueror to run those java games at www.pogo.com so I have to use firefox for that.
Kdevelop is fantastic, along with plugins for valgrind, doxygen and debuggers it is a great development environment.
All in all an incremental change, nothing blindingly new, but a solid base to work from.
Yep. But now you can enable/disable through a button in the windowtitle (if you want to)
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apt-get update apt-get -t unstable install kdebase
-- -pjk Perry Kundert perry@kundert.ca http://kundert.2y.net
there is Konstruct you know which builds KDE for you. I am building 3.3 with it right now
So what?
/etc/make.conf
Set PORTAGE_NICENESS="15" in
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde
go about your normal business, it takes about ten hours to compile on my 1.4GHz Athlon. You can stiill use your system while it compiles, you know.
You'll still have KDE-3.3 months before most people can get it in thoer shrinkwrapped distros.
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
Been awhile since you've played with Linux in GUI-land? Just get a distro with good package management...
Gentoo: emerge kde
Debian: apt-get
I just sit back and let it go...
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Highlights At A Glance
Some of the highlights in KDE 3.3 are listed below.
For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.2 release, please refer to the KDE 3.3 Feature Plan.
* http://kde.pandmservices.com/
Location: Hartford, Conneticut
Provided by P & M Services, LLC
* http://kde.oregonstate.edu/
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Provided by Oregon State University
* http://kde.intissite.com/
Location: New York
Provided by BITS inc
* http://kde.feratech.com/
Location: Boston
Provided by Feratech, Inc
echo kde-base/kde >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
/etc/portage/package.keywords
Crap, should have used preview. Of course, I mean
echo kde-base/kde ~arch >>
Posting as anon so not to karma whore.
I tend to agree, but you bet calc got flamed for it. He hadn't told anybody else about the upload, which is probably a bad idea, but when Sarge releases, it would be really nice if it wasn't outdated the first few months.... :-) So I hope it will release with 3.3.
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You know, I used to say the same thing. I recently moved *from* Gentoo *to* Debian, and I have a few things to say on the subject.
;-D
See, the thing is, Debian tries to be this safe-as-milk Linux distribution. Packages are compiled (in most cases) in the most generic way possible. There are exceptions, such as kernel images, but other than that, on x86, it's i386 all the way. That cuts down on performance a little.
Having said that, now that I've bothered to configure my Debian system, I don't notice much of a difference at all in performance.
What did I do? I took a bit of what I had learned in the Gentoo world and applied it to Debian. I'm not running syslog/klog anymore; instead, I'm running metalog in async mode. I have all my partitions mounted with the noatime option, and the reiserfs partitions are mounted with notail. I made the root partition ext3; I formatted the partition to have sparse superblocks and to use btree hash directory structures. I've added local changes to tweak harddrive performance. Finally, I audited what services needed to be running and got rid of anything that wasn't necessary. I'm not done yet, either. Doing things like switching to faster, lighter getty alternatives help, and there are other speed improvements that can be made.
Much is made of custom CFLAGS in the land of Gentoo, but the real power (if you start at stage1) is being able to build a smarter, lighter Linux system from the beginning.
These are all things that some Linux-on-the-desktop distribution could do automagically, naturally, if you're thinking "yeah, buddy, sounds *reeeeal* easy har har har." Well, it wasn't that bad, and I relieved myself of the headache of devoting my main box to building KDE packages. Some joker with a blazing-fast P4 and several megatons of RAM can do that for me.
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