There is a new version of KDE (3.0.3) due out in about a week, which will obviously contain the fix, and will have been very thoroughly tested by then. It's up to your distributor to package a binary fix for older versions.
The fix does not require a full rebuild of KDE, only a small portion of kdelibs, and takes just a few minutes to recompile and reinstall. Some of us sat up until the early hours, doing copious testing (of both a patched kdelibs, and a full rebuild of kdelibs.) It's the nature of open source that testing is done after the fix is distributed to the developers in CVS, Waldo announcing it to the lists was the quickest and best way to get more people testing and quickly.
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The reason we don't have packages for FreeBSD yet? The machine we use to build them out of CVS is out of action due to hardware issues.
Within another week or two we will have pre-release packages to test, and testers are welcome to help shake out the bugs
As for people who get warm fuzzy feelings from self-compiling, you should understand that the packages *are* the ports, built for you on a big fast build-system, to save you the time.
They're identical to what you'd get from building the port.
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There is a new version of KDE (3.0.3) due out in about a week, which will obviously contain the fix, and will have been very thoroughly tested by then. It's up to your distributor to package a binary fix for older versions.
The fix does not require a full rebuild of KDE, only a small portion of kdelibs, and takes just a few minutes to recompile and reinstall. Some of us sat up until the early hours, doing copious testing (of both a patched kdelibs, and a full rebuild of kdelibs.) It's the nature of open source that testing is done after the fix is distributed to the developers in CVS, Waldo announcing it to the lists was the quickest and best way to get more people testing and quickly.
I've been running it in parallel on a PIII 700 w/224 and a PII 400 w/64 for several months now.
KDE 3 is substantially faster on the slower machine than KDE 2. There's still a wait for windows to open, but it's noticeably reduced from KDE 2.
I rarely close open windows anyway, and in day to day use, there's little difference to tell between the two machines.
Hardly silent.
http://freebsd.kde.org
There's a mailing list available, join it and contribute.
The reason we don't have packages for FreeBSD yet? The machine we use to build them out of CVS is out of action due to hardware issues.
Within another week or two we will have pre-release packages to test, and testers are welcome to help shake out the bugs
As for people who get warm fuzzy feelings from self-compiling, you should understand that the packages *are* the ports, built for you on a big fast build-system, to save you the time.
They're identical to what you'd get from building the port.