Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Nov 2007 17:02 UTC, submitted by kejar31
KDE 4.0 RC1 has been released. "The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality. While the final bits of Plasma, the brand new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, are falling into place, the KDE community decided to publish a first release candidate for the KDE 4.0 Desktop. Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 which is suitable for general use and discovering the improvements that have taken place all over the KDE codebase. The KDE Development Platform, comprising the basis for developing KDE applications, is frozen and is now of release quality." You want see Plasma panel? You get see Plasma panel!
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RE[2]: Should Still Be an Alpha release
by whittmadden on Tue 20th Nov 2007 19:28
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Member since:2007-10-08
I agree with you about perfect software at .0 release, but this is a Release Candidate that feels like an alpha release. I agree testing needs to be done, and maybe they'll have a lot of bugs fixed between now and the actual final release. I sure hope so, because there is a lot of promise in this release.
RE[3]: Should Still Be an Alpha release
by superstoned on Sun 25th Nov 2007 09:24
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Member since:2005-07-07
as has been said a million times before - look a bit further. It feels like alpha? then check your 'feel'. Yes, Plasma is barely beta, kwin isn't finished. I know these things feel big and important, and they are, but they're not all of KDE. 95% of the code really is RC and already very stable. Don't let these few things fool you into thinking everything is that immature.
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2005-09-21
And I'd like a pony. Doesn't mean I'm gonna get it.
You can't create perfect software at a .0 release. That is, unless you want to go the enlightenment route, and that's not working out so well for them. Eventually you need to release to get the testing done. Enthusiastic users will then pound on it and report bugs, and x.1 will be top notch. Personally I'm already running the KDE4 packages from Debian sid, and while beta4 was definitely far from complete, I'm already hooked on the new apps. Just upgrading to RC1 right now.