Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 00:12 UTC, submitted by rexstuff
KDE The KDE team has released KDE 4.3. This release comes packed with improvements and bug fixes - in fact, over the last six months, 10000 bugs were squashed, 2000 feature requests handled, and 63000 changes were checked in by 700 people. We've already talked about this new release in quite some detail last week, but let's take a look at the most important new features anyway.
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RE[8]: Great!
by segedunum on Wed 5th Aug 2009 21:49 UTC in reply to "RE[7]: Great!"
segedunum
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2005-07-06

KDE 4 exposes quite a bit of functionality within X and chipset drivers that other software doesn't. Try KDE 4 with Intel or nVidia and you'll see that the only variable is the graphics drivers. You might get some issues with nVidia but at least they have a habit of updating their drivers and not leaving some chipsets in the lurch.

Personally, I don't know how you haven't seen other issues other than with KDE 4, especially with an integrated chipset (IGP). Accelerated video (Xv) for one thing is extremely bad with ATI and totally non-existant for IGPs.

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RE[9]: Great!
by siride on Wed 5th Aug 2009 21:50 in reply to "RE[8]: Great!"
siride Member since:
2006-01-02

I use textured video, but Xv was never problematic for me.

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RE[10]: Great!
by segedunum on Wed 5th Aug 2009 21:53 in reply to "RE[9]: Great!"
segedunum Member since:
2005-07-06

Quite frankly I find that very, very difficult to believe.

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