Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Aug 2007 17:40 UTC, submitted by wakeupneo
KDE "KDE 4.0 is very exciting, though not yet production ready, and that shows with this weeks' release of the first beta. It's a beta release for a major software project (using the traditional definition of beta, and not Google's it's-production-ready-but-we-don't-want-to-support-it-officially-yet definition of beta) and thus, it comes complete with bugs, crashes, missing artwork, and other goodies one would expect such as new code, new technologies and fun toys. For those of you who are unaware, KDE is one of the largest open source projects ever conceived. A major milestone release such as 4.0 is a long time in the making. Here follows a number of things to look forward to for those of you brave enough to try this early beta."
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Good summary ...
by anda_skoa on Tue 7th Aug 2007 18:46 UTC
anda_skoa
Member since:
2005-07-07

... and a reminder about the intended meaning of "Beta"

However, there is a little mistake in the section about portability improvements: Qt3/GPL has not only been available on Unix/X11 but also on Mac OS X.

Though it is still awesome that Qt is now available for free software development on all its supported platforms.

RE: Good summary ...
by jadeshade on Tue 7th Aug 2007 20:37 in reply to "Good summary ..."
jadeshade Member since:
2007-07-10

I apologize, but isn't Mac OS X part of Unix/X11?

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RE[2]: Good summary ...
by Sodki on Tue 7th Aug 2007 20:52 in reply to "RE: Good summary ..."
Sodki Member since:
2005-11-10

Yes, you can have X11 on MacOSX, but Qt is supported in Aqua too. That means you don't need X11 anymore in MacOSX.

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RE[2]: Good summary ...
by cyrilleberger on Tue 7th Aug 2007 20:53 in reply to "RE: Good summary ..."
cyrilleberger Member since:
2006-02-01

No. Qt3/GPL was available using the native GUI of MacOSX which is not X11 based.

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