Slashdot Mirror
KDE 3.4 Released
andy753421 links to today's announcement of the official release of KDE 3.4, and writes "Several KDE 3.4 based distributions such as ArkLinux and Kubuntu are soon to follow. Features in the release include built in Text to Speech, a revamped trash system, enhanced PDF support and PC to PC synchronization, as well as a new theme. KDE 3.4 weights in at 6,500+ bug fixes, 1,700+ enhancements, and a grand total of 80,000+ contributions." Reader gotr00t adds a link to the KDE download mirror page . Update: 03/16 20:58 GMT by T : mrevell points out an interview with KDE hacker Aaron Seigo in the latest LugRadio, in which Seigo "dispels various myths about KDE and talks about the desktop environment's future."
Let's not forget Mepis. Another KDE based distro as well and getting much press as of late.
e pi s
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=m
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.4.php
Highlights at a glance
* Text-to-speech system with support built into Konqueror, Kate, KPDF and the standalone application KSayIt
* Support for text to speech synthesis is integrated with the desktop
* Completely redesigned, more flexible trash system
* Kicker with improved look and feel
* KPDF now enables you to select, copy & paste text and images from PDFs, along with many other improvements
* Kontact supports now various groupware servers, including eGroupware, GroupWise, Kolab, OpenGroupware.org and SLOX
* Kopete supports Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime and gets integrated into Kontact
* DBUS/HAL support allows to keep dynamic device icons in media:/ and on the desktop in sync with the state of all devices
* KHTML has improved standard support and now close to full support for CSS 2.1 and the CSS 3 Selectors module
* Better synchronization between 2 PCs
* A new high contrast style and a complete monochrome icon set
* An icon effect to paint all icons in two chosen colors, converting third party application icons into high contrast monochrome icons
* Akregator allows you to read news from your favourite RSS-enabled websites in one application
* Juk has now an album cover management via Google Image Search
* KMail now stores passwords securely with KWallet
* SVG files can now be used as wallpapers
* KHTML plug-ins are now configurable, so the user can selectively disable ones that are not used. This does not include Netscape-style plug-ins. Netscape plug-in in CPU usage can be manually lowered, and plug-ins are more stable.
* more than 6,500 bugs have been fixed
* more than 1,700 wishes have been fullfilled
* more than 80,000 contributions with several million lines of code and documentation added or changed
creation science book
Well, it's based on Ubuntu Linux...Ubuntu means something like "Humanity to others" (the ubuntu.com page will explain this much better than I can) The distro is GNOME based...so the natural thing to do is to slap a K in front of it and it's now KDE-based! Thus Kubuntu. :)
I've got an Ubuntu installation, btw, and it's pretty cool. Hardware detection was great, runs fairly well on my old 400MHZ PII, and the whole synaptic thing makes for very easy updating. I may eventually try the Kubuntu as I'm looking for that Debian-based KDE-using distro. Currently looking at Mepis but haven't tried it yet.
just install the essentials, leave out kde-multimedia, kde-network, kde-graphics, kde-utilities, kde-admin, koffice... KDE is modular, i can get a workable KDE desktop with just arts, kde-base,kde-libs, kde-artwork, & QT... if you already have mozilla/firefox & thunderbird, OpenOffice, then why install redundant apps, KDE is nice but too many people forget it is modular and can be made leaner, but if you want the whole kitchen sink slam all the packages in
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
KDE? Yes http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/. Newer versions should start being released once QT & KDE 4.0 are out.
The screenshot gallery linked by the parent comment features KDE 3.4 Release Candidate, not the final version.
(Yes, I realize it's probably very similar, but I went through a few screens thinking "well, seems like it hasn't changed a bit from the RC I'm running here" until I noticed the gallery title.)
The filesystem is the package manager
Heh, yeah. But surely the complete translation of the GUI into British English, along with sizeable portions of the GUI translated into Welsh and Irish Gaelic, there's plenty of opportunity for usage this side of the pond.
KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc
A couple more versions, and they'll probably have caught up to/surpassed what you get with a Mac or XP system. GUI-wise, anyway. Underneath it's already better.
Although the beauty of the WM/DE is completely subjective I have found kde-look.org to be a great source of beautifying KDE. If you look through there you can find people that have their desktop looking alot like or exactly like Mac OS X or Windows XP (if you're into that sort of thing).
This guy ("Thac") has it built already. Here are his Mandrake 10.1 RPMs:
http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/kde-3.4.0/
programs would find themselves quite confused
/bin (and same for other respective dirs, you get the idea) /bin is statically linked so that it is usable in the event of a catastrophic failure, where as /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin binaries are often only usable if the system comes up.
./configure --prefix=/Applications --sysconfigdir=/Settings --libdir=/Librarys
so I really don't know why usr/bin is not linked to
Because the binaries they hold serve different purposes. Often the stuff in
you never know what lib is really used
ldd `somebinary`
OS X is UNIX-based kernel
Mach kernel
it does not have too messy filesystem organisation
With some work your linux could have the same layout
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."