Linked by Rahul Gaitonde on Thu 15th Jan 2004 06:40 UTC
Around 3 weeks ago, I downloaded the 2nd beta of KDE 3.2 from their FTP site. I've been using this release every day since then. The purpose of my writing this piece is not to highlight KDE 3.2's new features and applications - read the Changelog at KDE's site for that - but to give you a complete picture of how it measures up to its previous versions in terms of everyday use. Does it make me more productive? Is the command line more efficient yet? Or, even better, does it make me use the command line more effectively? Read on...
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This is a great and detauled review. And best of all, it has pictures, which a desktop review should always have. Hell, I even think the distro reviews should have screenshots, if only to break up the text.
Just a note, you can also do Freshening and Upgrading of RPMS directly from the FTP site. This didn't work on older versions of RPM, but the version that comes with Fedora Core 1 can do it. And you can use wildcards in the FTP URL. So you can do this:
rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/3.1.94/RedHat/Fedora/i386/*.rpm...