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KDE 3.4 goes Beta

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the new-and-improved dept.

wikinerd writes "KDE 3.4 has reached its beta testing phase. The KDE 3.4beta1 is codenamed 'Krokodile' and pre-compiled packages are already available for Slackware, but if you need to compile it by yourself first check its compilation requirements."

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  1. KDE3.4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ooo... I bet it's Kute, Kool, and Kuick.

  2. If you need to Kompile it yourself... by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Troll

    I pity you.

    The final version will be out by the time you're done.

    I once made the mistake of compiling KDE to "optimize" it for my system. Once.

    As an aside.. KDE, Mozilla, OOo, are all good examples of the inherent problem with source-based distrobution.

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    1. Re:If you need to Kompile it yourself... by tomstdenis · · Score: -1, Troll

      Wrong.

      I run gentoo on x86_64 and x86_32. I want both boxes to be as close as possible [e.g. if my x86_64 box dies I can resume work on the 32 ... which is a laptop actually].

      Why should I be at the whim of some binary master to make x86_64 then x86_32 binaries for me? All I need is the source and I can make them myself.

      oh and Gentoo does support binary package install you ignorant fool. Just rarely anyone uses it beyond say arrays of computers.

      Tom

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    2. Re:If you need to Kompile it yourself... by SparklingClearWit · · Score: 0, Troll

      Conversely, I can 'sudo apt-get install' the kde desktop environment, wait 10 minutes, restart my X session, and have a complete new working environment. Sure, it's probably 5% slower, but I'll take the small performance hit for NOT WASTING MY LIFE.

      Keep making it hard, and Linux will never move past Linus' hypothetical basement.

      Synaptic, Click-n-Run, stuff like that is what will keep people interested in Linux and other OSS avenues. Not watching random text scroll in a window to make me feel like a 'geek'.

    3. Re:If you need to Kompile it yourself... by SparklingClearWit · · Score: 0, Troll

      Your overly defensive and sarcastic post notwithstanding...

      I'm glad you like Gentoo. I personally don't give much of a damn about it. My comment was more about Linux being user friendly, and not about the nuts and bolts.

      Multitasking is fine; if that's what you're into. From all the rabid Gentoo users (and you guys are fanatical - you're like the Rush Limbaughs or Al Frankens of the Linux world), it seems you spend more time with -emerge or recompiling the latest packages, instead of just using your computers. If that's what you want, cool. I like to have my OS just give me the shit I want - web browser, MP3 playback, IM, an editor or two, RDP into my Windows servers, ssh to my Unix/Linux clients, stuff like that. Right now, BeatrIX Linux does that for me. Not all apt users are Debian users. :) I've used Red Hat, Debian, Slack, Knoppix, Mandrake, SuSE (whatever the cap is), and I'm currently running BeatrIX Linux.

      Whichever Linux you use, good for you. If you like it, you like it.

  3. Re:Screenshots? by froggero1 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Is that why you use linux???

    It's kinda like having this huge, powerful dump truck then saying how pretty the seats are...

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  4. KDE sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Too bad KDE is fucking slow as molasses no matter how many processors you have, even on a DEC Alpha with sixteen processors.

    CLIT WUGG

    Cabal of Logged In Trolls Who Use Good Grammar.

  5. frost, pisFt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    insisted th4t all parties it's

  6. fuc'k3r by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    for The prOject.

  7. Stick with Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You really don't have to compile. But if you insist and you want to keep complaining about it, I suggest you stick with Windows. HhhaaaaaaHa Ha Ha.