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KDE 4.8 RC 1 Now Available
jrepin writes with this quote from an article at Phoronix: "Just in time for some holiday testing, the KDE SC 4.8 Release Candidate is now available. The final release of KDE 4.8 is about one month away, but now the release candidate is available to ensure it shapes up to be a solid release. Among the features of KDE Software Compilation 4.8 is support for Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces, quite visible improvements to the Dolphin file-manager, KSecretService is now available as a shared password storage pool, and there's many performance improvements. Lots of bug fixes (measured in hundreds) can also be found in KDE 4.8."
OpenSuse.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Slackware uses KDE as default
OpenSUSE uses it as the default desktop. That is probably your best bet as many KDE developers are using that distro.
I prefer the Fedora KDE spin as the nicest distro, but I am partial to yum.
Other notable distros using KDE by default: Pardus, Chakra, Slackware, PC-BSD.
OpenSuse, Kubuntu, and several others not cloned off of Ubuntu come with KDE. Some have it as the first choice, but not all are so single minded as to not offer a choice like Ubuntu.
You don't have to go out of your way, you just have to expand your horizon beyond your little Ubuntu world.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Pass -DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=TRUE to cmake while building and then run 'make test' . Better googling next time.
Some have it as the first choice, but not all are so single minded as to not offer a choice like Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop and log in to KDE. All the *buntu variants actually point to the same repositories, you pick one during download but if you want more they're an apt-get away. I'd call it one less confusing step for a new user, how should he know how to answer? Give him the defaults of what he downloaded and trust that power users can use 30 seconds on Google to find out...
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
I agree with Kjella. Ubuntu does offer a choice, and it's called Kubuntu.
And if you install regular Ubuntu with Unity and don't like it (and most people don't, I think), then install KDE and you're good to go in a few short minutes.
Window Behavior -> Advanced -> Enable Tiling
People who do actual work often need to print, yes.
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
Hmmm.. Works GREAT!
Sharp MX4501N
Sharp AR620M
HP C7280's
HP 4500W
HP 7500A
All via network...
And HP makes it stupid wintard easy to print, scan and fax with their HP printers or AIO's.
sudo apt-get install hplip-gui
DONE! Print, scan, fax.
XSANE works great to scan via the network.
What was your point?
Oh still trying to use non PCL or PS printers in Linux, good luck.
Hell, even my beloved Kodaks have been set free, free at last with c2esp, scan and fax is still not supported, but you can at least print!
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You have the choice both before and after installation. If you know before you do the install, then you just use the Kubuntu install disk. If you decide after the install, you run the apt-get command. Having only two point that you make the choice instead of 3 doesn't mean there is not choice.
I just switched to KMail 2 in 4.7.4, and so far it's working out nicely---definitely better than the old KMail. I was quite apprehensive, because I have a complex setup, with multiple IMAP accounts, local mail storage, several identities, and so on, and I had read all the issues people have. But it's working like a charm, and even mail folders with several thousand mails are snappy.
I think there has been a lot of progress since the first official release of KMail2 in 4.7, so I'd definitely give it another try.
Some of the most annoying bugs, like KMail IMAP not surviving a sleep-wake cycle or a brief network outage, are finally gone.
PC-BSD. Version 9 is the first that offers one a choice of GNOME, KDE, LXDE and XFCE as fully integrated DEs, while Awesome, Enlightenment, IceWM, ScrotWM and WindowMaker are available, but not fully integrated - one probably has to use the CUI to run the BSD utilities on them. But aside from that, those too will work.
Then there are all the other distros mentioned above. And typically, while Gnome may be the default, most distros, during installation, offer one the option of installing KDE instead.