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KDE 4.1 Beta 2 – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back?

Posted by timothy on from the everyone's-a-critic dept.

jammag writes "Linux pundit Bruce Byfield takes a look at the latest KDE beta and finds it wanting: 'Very likely, KDE users will have to wait for another release or two beyond 4.1 before the new version of KDE matches the features of earlier ones, especially in customization.' He notes that the second beta is still prone to unexplained crashes, and goes so far as to say, 'Everyone agrees now that KDE 4.0 was a mistake.' I'm not too sure about that — really, 'everyone?'"

4 of 431 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Open Source Developers vs Commercial Developers by agrippa_cash · · Score: 0, Troll

    You sound a lot like the guy complaining about how long it tool Macs to copy a 17 Mb file. What made you change your mind?

  2. Re:Perfect? by atraintocry · · Score: 0, Troll

    kdebeta

  3. Re:Too bad. by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think you're severely misinformed as to what A Linux is. It's not Gnome nor is it KDE.

    Wow, really? I've never heard that before ;-)

    I tell you what Linux isn't. It's not a platform. Windows is - it's easy to build a binary application to run on "Windows" and it will work on Vista, XP and Windows 2000. Very few people do that for Linux, they provide source code and let people port it to Red Hat or Ubuntu or KUbuntu or Gentoo, i.e. half a dozen distributions running half a dozen Window managers.

    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  4. Re:Everyone? Why not? by arth1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The thing though is, I can take KDE 3 and use it till the year 5436656563577 or beyond if I feel like and still patch it.

    No, you can't. The last time I checked, there were several year-2038 bugs still present in the KDE codebase, especially in Konqueror.