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KDE 3.4 Beta 2 ('Keinstein') Released

Posted by timothy on from the very-large-thank-you dept.

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."

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  1. What on earth does this have to do with BSD? by IBeatUpNerds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doesn't this belong under Linux, or a new section called Apps or something... I remember this happening a few months ago with a GNOME release. I subscribe to the BSD stuff because I care about BSD.

    1. Re:What on earth does this have to do with BSD? by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It IS unser Linux. It's also under BSD (Free, Open, Net, et al). Why? Because KDE is a OS neutral desktop. Which means it runs just fine under BSD. Ditto for GNOME. Ditto for XFCE. Ditto for every other desktop and window manager.

      Nothing is forcing you to click on the story if you're not interested in it, even it if happens to be incuded in the BSD section.

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  2. change log... by jungd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    anyone?
    (I wasted enough time trying to find what was different already)

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  3. Re:Why KDE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I developer cross platform *GPL* applications with QT. How exactly does QT prevent me from doing anything I want to do?

    IT IS UNDER THE GPL!

  4. Make KDE faster? by WMD_88 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Perhaps 4.0 is a better target for this...but how about making the thing faster and/or less of a memory hog? Starting with the 3 series (especially 3.1), KDE is even slower than Windows XP!

    I miss the old days, where KDE 1.1 ran fast on a P133. :(

    There's still a chance for 3.4...no new features. I'm sure they could crunch the code at least a little bit!

    1. Re:Make KDE faster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      *Linux* does run well on older machines. But KDE and Gnome aren't Linux, they're programs that run on Linux systems :)

  5. Re:Keinstein? by Nasarius · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Do they know that translates to "No Stone" in German?

    Given that many of the developers are German, I think that's a safe bet.

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  6. Re:Pretty Please by archen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Look at the 3.3 screenshots and ad .1

    Not to troll, but this is an incramental upgrade - you're not going to see a night and day difference. Although I'm always quite happy with the usability changes and added features, they aren't the sort of things you see from screenshots of someones desktop with a different wallpaper (usually). Seems sort of silly to slashdot KDE.org for each beta over screens that are more or less the same