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KDE 3.4 Beta 2 ('Keinstein') Released
Carewolf writes "Finally the KDE 3.4 beta 2 has been released (codename "Keinstein"). Besides being the latest and greatest, it also marks the KDE 3.4 feature freeze and will provide a good demonstration of the splendors that will be KDE 3.4. Feature and release plans can be found here, and the news is also covered on the dot. Download now and help hunt the last bugs for the next major release of KDE."
Two points:
(1) Why is this article in the "BSD" section?
(2) Please use Gnome instead of KDE if you are able. By using KDE, you are supporting a commercial company, Trolltech. KDE is built on their commercial (as in: non-free) Qt API that costs $3000 per seat for developers if you want to write for more than one platform.
Yes kids, cross-platform development using Qt is twenty times more expensive than the total software cost of developing for Microsoft Windows and Linux using other standard toolkits[1]. And please don't say "but you're paying for support" for Qt - it's nothing more than a windowing library. If you need to pay for support, it is broken.
[1] Assuming Windows XP Pro OEM costs $150 and you use the freely available development tools and a licence-free cross platform API such as the platform-neutral wxWidgets or Gnome's cross-platform toolkit, GTK - you will never have any expense other than for the operating system on which you develop.
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