The newest version of KDE Four Live, an openSUSE-based Live CD for testing KDE 4, was released three days ago, just nine days after the initial version that included Release Candidate 1 was released. KDE/openSUSE dev Stephan Binner announced the release on his blog, celebrating the strong public interest in the initial RC1-based Live CD - over 10000 downloads achieved in the first few days. Meanwhile, although mainstream reviews of RC1 are still scarce, Binner's blog announcement of the previous version contained this interesting tidbit: "It looks like whatever [version of KDE 4] will be released or presented at the event which was fixed by the sponsor to happen in January will be only used by very early adopters. Hopefully openSUSE 11.0 will be able to ship some KDE 4.1.x release or some very high KDE 4.0.x release (which saw some light features freeze lift)," he wrote. Readers are welcome to download the newest Live CD (Torrent) and test it for themselves. A Debian LiveCD is also available, but it still includes KDE4 Beta4 and not RC1.
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Yea I'm wondering what distribution will be the first to ship KDE4.x. OpenSUSE already said it isn't stable enough. I doubt we'll see it (officially) in Kubuntu 8.04 either since I believe 8.04 is going to be a long term support release, so it won't officially be there until 8.10 (end of NEXT year).
If a distro does manage to package it and make it the default desktop they'll be making a name for themselves seeing that a lot of people are interested in trying KDE4 out.
Member since:2005-07-06
"Yea I'm wondering what distribution will be the first to ship KDE4.x. OpenSUSE already said it isn't stable enough."
Depends on what you mean, in fact OpenSUSE already shipped with KDE4 :-) The default KDE install on 10.3 contained bits of KDE4. Only games, but they are still applications needing the KDE4 libs.
The question would be, which distribution will be the first to deliver KDE4 as the default desktop. OpenSuse will definetly include it, maybe not as default but at least as an option. Perhaps like you today can chose KDE or Gnome, KDE4 will be among the choices.
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The title was rather inaccurate, as this is not a RC1 release or any kind of release at all. It's simply a snapshot of the KDE SVN taken two weeks after RC1, packaged up on a live CD.
And that KDE 4.0 will be only used by very early adopters are not exactly surprising either. It will only be available as source or in different distributions unstable or unsupported backports repositories, both typically used by early adaptors. As far as i can tell no major distribution is planing a release so early in the year, so unsurprisingly they will include later KDE releases corresponding with their release plan.
Edited 2007-12-02 23:36