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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. Keinstein? by kentyman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Do they know that translates to "No Stone" in German?

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    1. 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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  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:Make KDE faster? by bluGill · · Score: 4, Informative

    KDE is getting faster all the time. The core of KDE is generally faster now than in the 1.x timeframe. A few things are slower because they do more. Overall though KDE is fast. Effort is being made all the time to make things faster.

    I use KDE 3.3 on a ppro-200 with 128Meg of ram and it works just fine.

    That said, there are some things that will be much faster in KDE 4.x because qt4 is better in those areas.

  4. Why BSD? by menace3society · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is this posted with the BSD daemon because KDE is so hellish to use?

  5. Re:Quartz anyone? by Illissius · · Score: 3, Informative

    KDE 3.4 already has preliminary support for X.org's Composite extension, meaning compositing can be handed off to hardware, true transparency, drop shadows, and all that. Unfortunately it's still rather buggy, which is only partly KDE's fault, and partly X.org's (it's still a fairly new development). I'd say it's pretty safe to say 4.0 will have full support for hardware acceleration and all kinds of iCandy... especially considering Qt4's Arthur.

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