kde 3

This post is part of series: "Towards kde 4.2..." and it speaks about koffice. A Desktop Environment of high level can not be separated from major applications and KOffice is one of them.

The transition from kde 3 to kde 4 is not yet complete but the result is really important...

"The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.6 , a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced, powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes.

KDE.News covers the KOffice Sprint, held in Berlin. "Talking to developers revealed the status of several of the applications.

The many changes in the core of KOfficelibs but also further down the stack, like KDELibs and Qt 4 forced Kexi to rewrite large parts of the application.

This means despite the fact the KDE 3 version was very mature and stable, Kexi won't be joining the 2.0 release.

Nonetheless, the developers stress that version 1.6.x is still ahead of the competition, at least in the Free Software world."

If you care about KDE, and especially, if like me, you care specifically about KDE 3, please go read his article.

It’s full of good, balanced information. I think I will be taking his adivce and trying a KDE (3) install of Debian Lenny.

TechRadar: "Have you been clinging to KDE 3.5 like a polar bear to the last Arctic ice shelf? If so, now's a good time to consider jumping on to the mainland."

Linux blog writes “The new version of OpenBSD is available for download. There are lots of nifty new features to try out including OpenSSH 5.1 with chroot(2) support, Xenocara, Gnome 2.20.3, KDE 3.5.8, etc.

Despite developers' claims to the contrary, KDE 4.1 is still a downgrade from KDE 3.5. It may be a mild improvement over KDE 4.0, but KDE 3.5 still has more features and better stability than KDE 4.1.

Linux blog writes "The new version of OpenBSD is available for download. There are lots of nifty new features to try out including OpenSSH 5.1 with chroot support, Xenocara, Gnome 2.20.3, KDE 3.5.8, etc.

Linux blog writes "The new version of OpenBSD is available for download. There are lots of nifty new features to try out including OpenSSH 5.1 with chroot(2) support, Xenocara, Gnome 2.20.3, KDE 3.5.8, etc.

Machines using the UltraSPARC IV/T1/T2 and Fujitsu SPARC64-V/VI/VII are now supported. It seems amazing to me that they keep delivering these new results on a six-month release cycle."

Have you been clinging to KDE 3.5 like a polar bear to the last Arctic ice shelf? If so, now's a good time to consider jumping on to the mainland.

The recently released KDE 4.1 is a vast improvement over the original.