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KDE 4.0 RC 1 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who-wants-to-restart-x11 dept.

angryfirelord writes "The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality. While the final bits of Plasma, the brand new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, are falling into place, the KDE community decided to publish a first release candidate for the KDE 4.0 Desktop. Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 which is suitable for general use and discovering the improvements that have taken place all over the KDE codebase."

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  1. Yes but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    does it run on Vista?

  2. Re:That's nice by orclevegam · · Score: 1, Funny

    1982 called, they want their window manager back.

    All kidding aside, what do you think of something a little more up to date but still minimalist like blackbox, or Xfce?

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  3. Re:Fat or muscle? by passthecrackpipe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also, precompiled binaries as RPMs for KDE (Debian RPMs for example) are always running a little bit slower
    where can I find these RPM's for Debian? And do I need to run them through alien first?
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  4. Re:Why do I want a giant clock or battery widget by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kand Kwhy Kmust Kevery Kapp Kbe Knamed Klike Kthis?

    Gexactly. GGNOME Gdoesn't Ghave Gthese Gissues.

  5. Re:That's nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    WHAT THE HELL FOR? Thanks to vista most off the shelf computers have at least 2 GB of ram. Let the desktop rock. If I want moving background of poledancer going off behind my transparent windows, why not? I got the memory and CPU to let it run.

  6. Re:Decent Software - But the Marketing? by Wylfing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Klearly it should have been named Kalamity.

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  7. Re:That's nice by crazybilly · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's just venting the frustration natural to any new Gnome user. It's a result of wanting to change things and realizing the devs didn't think you needed to be able to change that w/o an hour of googling for which text file to edit, another half an hour of which setting to change and two more hours of figuring out how you did it wrong, how to fix it and then how to do it right. Venting like this healthy. Let the man be, hehehe.

  8. Re:Slashdotted. by recoiledsnake · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the wiki:

    Kross scripting framework will be used to allow developers to write widgets in JavaScript, Ruby, and Python in addition to C++ [1]. No prizes for guessing what the gnome version will be called.
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  9. Re:Fat or muscle? by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it would be only a *tiny* amount of performance difference, there would not be alot of people in the forum mentioning that they prefer Gnome over KDE cuz Gnome runs faster.

    And if Mustangs were really faster than Accents, you'd never see whale tails on a neonned Hyundai.

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  10. Re:Release Candidate or Beta --what's the diff? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Took the words out of my mouth. Yes, IP theft is rampart in Slashdot nowadays.
  11. Re:iSee... by De+Lemming · · Score: 2, Funny

    WinThe WinWindows WinWorld WinLuckily WinDoesn't WinHave WinThis WinIssue.