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KDE 4.2 Is Released

Posted by kdawson on from the nice-and-gui dept.

OhReally writes "It's a great day for Free Software: KDE, the desktop environment for Linux, Windows, Mac, and (Open)Solaris, has just reached version 4.2, exactly a year since the release of 4.0. This is a version suitable for broad usage, with many improvements all across the board, and lots of bugfixes. You can leave a comment or congratulate the developers here."

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  1. second post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    GNOME BLOWS

  2. 1 question by Daimanta · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    In what state is it?

    pre-alpha?
    alpha?
    beta?
    rc?
    actually functional?

    It's laughable that /. bashes Windows for it's SP2 is functional development but has little to no criticism for open source software(and especially KDE). If somebody releases x.0 I expect it to be functional with major bugs as they should be caught in alpha/beta/rc. Should we have to wait for KDE4.5 instead?

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    1. Re:1 question by Greg_D · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      You get one version of KDE.

      Slow.

  3. Re:Woah by jerep · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Indeed, very impressive.

    Now I can go back to using Gnome knowing it wont hog my CPU as much.

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  4. Re:Woah by bursch-X · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Actually it's not, it's trying very hard to be pretty ... EPIC FAIL. It's probably because the KDE guys just have no taste whatsoever. It's so sad.

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  5. Vista clone by colourmyeyes · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Cool, they duplicated the Vista/Windows 7 look almost down to a T.

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  6. Re:Woah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It ain't worth a fat damn because it does not incorporate the shredder in Konqueror. Therefor it is not secure, making it less value than microsoft windows because windows has many easy to use shredders. The bankers were right, linux IS the functional equivalent of a bicycle next to windows' Ferrari! Get smart Linus and dump that fat mouthed son of a bitch that spewed that vomit about 'magnetic media' and extolled 'encryption' that everybody knows is worthless, as all one unscrupulous tyrant like our ex-president has to do is 'extraordinary rendition' you over to an Afghan warlord for torture. About the time the monster cuts off several fingers, ears, you dog, and a few toes and makes you eat them, you WILL hand over the password. With a proper shredder, the junk is gone and your customers will never get your customer list; your ex-employees will never get your old payroll so they could sue you for discrimination...see new law...etc....etc. Bye, bye ...linux....hello windows....windows 98, that is!

  7. OSX gayness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Take a look at the System Settings:

    http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.2/screenshots/systemsettings.png

    It looks _exactly_ like the one in OSX.
    The rest looks like Vista.
    Does every desktop environment has to become gay just because some people are using OSX to pretend you can work with a Mac?
    All people I know that are productive with a Mac don't leave TextMate or the terminal anyway.

  8. Finally by DigDuality · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    KDE 4.x series has reached alpha quality. Good job tards!.