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KDE 3.3 Officially Released

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

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.

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  1. This might be nice... by Eberlin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For the gentoo folks who emerge from source and all that fun stuff. How 'bout the not-so-cool people who use the other distros like RH or MDK? I figure they'll show up in contrib in a few days but I've been bitten before when I upgraded a RH9 to KDE 3.2 using repositories...locked up my machine badly and used that as an excuse to transition to mandrake 10CE (which had 3.2 by default). Haven't even gone to the 10 Official because I've adopted the "hey, if I don't NEED to upgrade, I won't" more religiously.

    For the more cautious/paranoid folks out there, when can we expect the distros to package 3.3 officially?

    As always, thanks to the KDE folks for continually updating and improving the software.

    1. Re:This might be nice... by Laur · · Score: 4, Insightful

      KDE 3.3 is in Debian unstable. Who says Debian's release cycle is too slow ;).

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  2. great... by ryanw · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about features like, "Increased performance by 60%, less memory leaks/bloat, and increased stability."

  3. Re:KDE vs. GNOME by Anomalous+Cowturd · · Score: 5, Insightful


    [KDE] is not the best for developers since they cannot create commercial application for it without paying TrollTech. I wonder how tyrannical Microsoft would be if they would ask you to pay them for using Window Forms, Win32 API, WTL, MFC, or any other API they have. Not everyone wants to create GPL applications, nor do they want to pay the TrollTech tax.

    Two things:

    * You don't pay to use the various Windows APIs, you pay to use Windows. That's the product they sell. The APIs are the incentive to use it. Trolltech's product is QT. That's how they actually make that pesky money that lets them have the GPL version.

    * If you're doing commercial software development, you expect to pay to do it. It's just like any other business. The cost of buying computers, dev tools, office chairs, etc. are trivial in comparison to big costs like salaries, office space and bandwidth, not to mention the income you expect to make from selling the product.

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