The KDE Community today released KDE 4.1.0. This release is the second feature release of the KDE 4 series, sporting new applications and newly developed features on top of the Pillars of KDE4. KDE 4.1 is the first KDE4 release to contain the Personal Information Management suite KDE-PIM with its E-Mail client KMail, the planner KOrganizer, Akregator, the RSS feed reader, KNode, the newsgroup reader and many more components integrated into the Kontact shell. Furthermore, the new desktop shell Plasma, introduced in KDE 4.0, has matured to the point where it can replace the KDE 3 shell for most casual users. Like with our previous release much time has been devoted to improving the framework and underlying libraries on which KDE is built.
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~20 Screenshots of the Desktop and Apps with Links to Larger Versions
Prefer KDE over Gnome anyday!!
Xfce is much better than either though!
I use Linux at home. Have not had Windows installed on my computer in over 5 years. I don't use KDE, I prefer fluxbox (which doesn't copy Windows or OSX at all!). Nice that I have the choice to make my OS work just the way I like.
Have fun with your Windows or whatever you use. I don't care.
+1 for Fluxbox (on the machines at university at least; I have XFCE on this PC for convenience). Simple, low performance overhead, works.
Nonetheless, I'll be interested to see what's new in 4.1; I avoided 4.0 like the plague due to the dire reviews and the developers' admissions it wasn't really for end-users (something of a misnomer for a .0 release in my eyes, but I see why they did it).
The Linux kernels are all faster and tighter than any of the Windows kernals, and the same goes for the OS as a whole.
Plus, it's free. And also, it's free. Did I mention it's free? Well, it is. Free, that is. Total cost of ownership for a home user can be a little as $0.00, possibly more if you pay someone to install it.
The Linux kernels are all faster and tighter than any of the Windows kernals, and the same goes for the OS as a whole.
Plus, it's free. And also, it's free. Did I mention it's free? Well, it is. Free, that is. Total cost of ownership for a home user can be a little as $0.00, possibly more if you pay someone to install it.
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
The Linux kernels are all faster and tighter than any of the Windows kernals, and the same goes for the OS as a whole.
Plus, it's free. And also, it's free. Did I mention it's free? Well, it is. Free, that is. Total cost of ownership for a home user can be a little as $0.00, possibly more if you pay someone to install it.
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
I agree with you in 100%.
Anyways, the linux kernel can be fairly better rather the windows kernel BUT the x-windows dependency is the real deal against linux, every x-windows "with skin" is a whole process, linux will need a quartz equivalent and not to relay on a rusty architecture.
But as with other KDX releases, it looks good in screenshot, but not as practical in use. Hope 4.1 will be different.
Of course, Microsoft keeps coming too, Steve Balmer has a bit of a different take on that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La_u1jPLOIA
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Inst...-04-91034.shtml
Last edited by warwagon on 31 Jul 2008 - 16:22
Honestly?
yes, it's there.
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