Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Jan 2008 12:00 UTC
KDE 4.0.0 has been released onto the world. "The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era." KDE 4.0 is the first release of "KDE 4", but take note that the developers have clearly stated that KDE 4.0 is not KDE 4, but more of a base release with all the underlying systems ready to go, but with still a lot of work to be done on the user-visible side. Download it from the KDE 4.0 info page. Update: Screenshots.
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2006-01-12
I doubt you'll find many posts that heralded KDE *4.0* as the second coming. Instead people were almost certainly talking about KDE4 if only for the fact that it's shorter to type.
Nevertheless this is not splitting hairs. Anyone who went through the KDE 1->2 rewrite or Gnome 1->2 or OSX, or most incarnations of Windows should know that there's a big difference between the first release and the possibilities the new architecture opens up in the future.
In fact as the vast majority of KDE4 articles up to about 3 months ago talked about the architecture instead of the apps even you could have realized that noone promised world peace and cookies for the 4.0 launch party. =P