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[Nvyseal]

images/news/linux.jpgKDE 4.0 RC1 has been released. "The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality. While the final bits of Plasma, the brand new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, are falling into place, the KDE community decided to publish a first release candidate for the KDE 4.0 Desktop. Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 which is suitable for general use and discovering the improvements that have taken place all over the KDE codebase. The KDE Development Platform, comprising the basis for developing KDE applications, is frozen and is now of release quality." You want see Plasma panel? Plasma Panel1 2

Get it

[m.oreilly]

muy sexy
but it's a bunch of tar.bz stuff...i can never figure out how to install these. i wish they had a how-to for a guy like me

(brew, is there a generic line (in terminal) to start the installs? i know you list the location of the packages, but not the form...)

[Nvyseal]

m.oreilly, on Nov 20 2007, 10:12 PM, said:

muy sexy
but it's a bunch of tar.bz stuff...i can never figure out how to install these. i wish they had a how-to for a guy like me

Im sure our resident Brewin can whip one up for us if we ask him nicely

[m.oreilly]

hey nvy, i just edited my previous post to reflect just that

[brewin]

You want the Live CD. It's not stable enough to install yet. The betas were alpha-quality, so I'm guessing this "release candidate" is early beta-quality.

http://home.kde.org/.../kde-four-live/

It's v0.7. I downloaded it earlier today, but it wouldn't boot up in VirtualBox. I haven't tried VMware, but it should work. Or you could actually burn it to a CD if you're made of money and can afford that sort of thing.

[m.oreilly]

thanks brew, i'm downloading now

[m.oreilly]

it's pretty...
but no way to install (no option for an install to hdd of suse/w the fancy gui). the iso is 500+ megs...is this linux bloat-ware?

edit: realized this is a read only disc...

[m.oreilly]

i tried installing the latest suse, so i could try the new kde...no go. suse , even though the drivers were loaded, can't find my scsi drives worth $hi7...dang. i was all ready to get my open source freak on, and now, as before , the new kernel don't play nice. i still have an old ata i could use though...

[brewin]

Don't do it, MO! It's not ready and it's not meant to be used yet. That's why the Live CD doesn't have an installer. Give it a few months.

[m.oreilly]

brewin, on Nov 21 2007, 08:46 PM, said:

Don't do it, MO! It's not ready and it's not meant to be used yet. That's why the Live CD doesn't have an installer. Give it a few months.

thanks brew, though it looked really sweet. kde is going to realy do it for general mass adopton of desktop linux, i think.