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KDE 4.2.4 Released

Posted by timothy on from the smoothing-a-smoothie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "KDE 4.2.4 has been released. See the release announcement for details." Barring a "security issue or another grave bug," this is the end of the KDE 4.2 line, which means for distros based on long-term support, it might be the thing to get used to for a while.

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  1. Re:BSD? by chill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is Slashdot. Always go with the default reason. The editors fucked up. It explains almost everything.

    Dupes. The editors fucked up.
    Miscategorized. The editors fucked up.
    Everything that says "iPhone" promoted to front page. The editors fucked up.
    Cowboy Neal. The editors fucked up.

    See?

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  2. Re:I just tried KDE 4.1 by yet-another-lobbyist · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I had HUGE issues with KDE 4.1 myself. It might be worth trying to switch off desktop effects. In my case, however, even that did not solve all the performance issues.
    The big change came with KDE 4.2. Things really became very smooth and fast and rock solid. If you are planning to upgrade to jaunty, I would definitely recommend trying it. (If I remember correctly, there is also a way to run 4.2 on kubuntu 8.10 -- I think I did this for a while.)

  3. Re:I just tried KDE 4.1 by cbhacking · · Score: 4, Informative

    4.1 isn't even close to 4.2. You might as well compare a beta to a release version (think of it this way - 4.0 was the tech preview, incomplete and buggy but with APIs in place. 4.1 is the beta - many of the features but not all, and still buggy. 4.2 is release, with bugs fixed and features in place).

    You'd think that talking about 4.1 in an article about 4.2.4 would be obviously absurd, but apparently not...

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