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KDE 4.0.1 has been released. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.1. KDE 4.0.1 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and enhanced support for existing and new translations." Here's the changelog.

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Poor Pluto

by DigitalAxis on Wed 6th Feb 2008 00:35 UTC

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2005-08-28

It's a pity that the bug in kstars about treating Pluto as an asteroid instead of a planet, wasn't #134340.

Obscure joke, sorry. Check Wikipedia.

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RE: Poor Pluto

by Punktyras on Wed 6th Feb 2008 11:25 in reply to "Poor Pluto"

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2006-01-07

Since 2007-08-24 Pluto is not the planet any more. It's planetaoid or something like that. I remeber it, 'cause it was announced on my birthday

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RE: Poor Pluto

by raver31 on Wed 6th Feb 2008 11:25 in reply to "Poor Pluto"

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2005-07-06

No, it is correct, Pluto is now a plutino. Kstars was originally wrong calling it a planet, but, then so were countless astronomers.

Sad hobby..

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RE[2]: Poor Pluto

by DigitalAxis on Thu 7th Feb 2008 04:11 in reply to "RE: Poor Pluto"

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2005-08-28

It's a dwarf planet, which means it's big enough to be spherical, not orbiting a recognized planet, but hasn't cleared out all the objects in its orbit.

Depending on how technical you want to be, that also excludes Jupiter, Neptune, and the Earth... but anyway.

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