Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th May 2008 17:04 UTC
Tuesday, we reported that the KDE project had released the first beta of KDE 4.1, the release that is supposed to be ready to replace KDE3 on normal users' desktops. The information and marketing speak in the press release sure was promising, so Ars decided to take the KDE 4.1 beta out for a spin.
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Member since:2007-02-17
You might want to take a look at this post if you use the VirtualBox image, as there appear to be some networking issues:
http://dot.kde.org/1211789022/1212003398/1212016629/1212106579/
(I've not had a chance to test the VirtualBox image myself, yet.)
http://dot.kde.org/1211789022/1212003398/1212016629/1212106579/
(I've not had a chance to test the VirtualBox image myself, yet.)
I'm posting this from the Virtualbox image right now.
There is indeed an issue with networking.
$ sudo su
password:
$ ifconfig eth1 up
$ dhclient eth1
... fixes it.
KDE 4.1 is not ugly. It could do with a simple way to reduce the size of the menu bar at the bottom, and the default theme isn't the most fantastic ... but is it ugly? No.
Member since:2005-09-21
Member since:2006-05-12
$ sudo su
password:
$ ifconfig eth1 up
$ dhclient eth1
... fixes it.
A technical nit pick. This is redundant. Do either:
$ su
passsord:
$ ifconfig eht1 up
$ dhclient eth1
or
$ sudo ifconfig eth1 up
$ sudo dhclient eth1
sudo let's you run a single command at a time as the super user and can be configured to do so without a password prompt
su let's you become the super user and doesn't need to be called via sudo. It's best to use su - or just set an alias in your shell config file for it so that you inherit root's environment.
Member since:
2007-08-03
You might want to take a look at this post if you use the VirtualBox image, as there appear to be some networking issues:
http://dot.kde.org/1211789022/1212003398/1212016629/1212106579/
(I've not had a chance to test the VirtualBox image myself, yet.)