Star New Version of KDE 4 RC1 LiveCD Available
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Dec 2007 22:44 UTC, submitted by Moochman
KDE 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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RE[3]: fedora to be the First?
by gilboa on Tue 4th Dec 2007 12:50 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: fedora to be the First? "
gilboa
Member since:
2005-07-06

Four months might not be enough to 4.1, but may be enough for 4.0.1.

- Gilboa

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Shade Member since:
2005-07-07

"Four months might not be enough to 4.1, but may be enough for 4.0.1.

- Gilboa"

I'd be shocked if a 4.0.1 didn't fall out of the pipe sooner than that. With the broad testing that 4.0.0 will get I'm sure things will come up, probably leading to a snapish 4.0.1. My e-wisdom says four months might actually be more like a 4.0.2... ;)

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gilboa Member since:
2005-07-06

People seems to forget that much like KDE4, KDE3 was a work-in-progress release and was a far cry from today's ultra-stable-and-feature complete KDE 3.5.8.

Just compare RedHat 7.3 (w/3.0) to F8 and you'll see what I mean.
Granted, it took 3 years to get from KDE 3 (mid 2002) to KDE 3.5 (end of 2005) but in the end, KDE4 will get there.

- Gilboa

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