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KDE 4.0 RC 1 Released
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."
So here is a question from someone trying to move to Linux on a laptop for my kids to use.
KDE or Gnome?
I recently had a very busy weekend trying edubutu, ubunutu, xubuntu, and gOS on an IBM T40, with mixed results.
I did not get around to kubuntu, perhaps I should have.
All around, it went very smoothly, particularly with improvements to my networked printers.
But I never could get the multimedia apps to behave correctly. The iron test was www.nasa.gov. My five year old could watch the videos there all day long. The best I could achieve was getting about 2/3 of them working. Even then, they didn't stream, they downloaded in their entirety, then started playing.
Yes, I went through all the ubuntu lists. I loaded mplayer, w32codecs, and flash_non_free. All to no avail.
Would I have had better luck with a KDE install?
FYI: I started in Unix on PDP-11 back in the day and have been on various SVR4/Solaris/RH4/BSD hosts ever since, so I am not a total newbie on this. But I do not normally do multimedia in those environments.