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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Aug 2007 17:40 UTC, submitted by wakeupneo

"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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hmmm

by poundsmack on Tue 7th Aug 2007 18:53 UTC

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2005-07-13

witht he improvements witht he java and GT bindings as well as teh fact that KDE 4.0 is going to be pretty far ahead of gnome, i really with opensolaris would make an official switch as to its prefered choice

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RE: hmmm

by renox on Tue 7th Aug 2007 19:24 in reply to "hmmm"

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2005-07-06

I doubt that Sun will change the default desktop: it's most likely the license (Qt is GPLv2, GTK is LGPL) which made Sun choose Gnome instead of KDE..

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RE[2]: hmmm

by superstoned on Wed 8th Aug 2007 08:44 in reply to "RE: hmmm"

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2005-07-07

yet they are working on it.

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/07/on-red-solaris-herrings.html

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RE[2]: hmmm

by segedunum on Thu 9th Aug 2007 08:25 in reply to "RE: hmmm"

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2005-07-06

I doubt that Sun will change the default desktop: it's most likely the license (Qt is GPLv2, GTK is LGPL) which made Sun choose Gnome instead of KDE..

I hear people repeating this one over and over, but where has Sun actually said this? Anywhere. It looks like Sun were more comfortable with C as their language, as everything else they had done was written in it, and were enthusiastic about the use of CORBA in Gnome, which didn't really work out.

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RE[2]: hmmm

by poundsmack on Tue 7th Aug 2007 19:30 in reply to "hmmm"

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2005-07-13

its a damn shame that all these liecence and pattent issues get in the way of delivering a best possibly product to the consumer.

while improvments on compony colaberation and licence colaboration have been made, a hell of a lot more of them need to be.

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RE: hmmm

by theine on Wed 8th Aug 2007 02:19 in reply to "hmmm"