Thursday, August 19, 2004

Are your ready for KDE 3.3 ?

After astonishing many people with the release of KDE 3.2, right now, KDE projects have moved their focus on releasing KDE 3.3 and polishing the new look and bug fixing are their primary objectives right now. It is called "Kollege" for it's code name and it was only bug fix from the earlier project, "aKademy" in late august.

This new version is considered stable and some people have already upgrade their KDE into this version, while some others tends to wait until the final release is launched to prevent unexpected bugs that will show up in the beta version. If you are trying to build from the source code, i suggest that you use Konstruct, from KDE project. "Konstruct" is a build system which helps you to install KDE releases and applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs, checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds and installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as "cd meta/kde;make install".

By default "Konstruct" installs to your home directory which means you don't have to possess root privileges or risk to damage your system or affect another KDE.

The question is Are you ready for KDE 3.3?

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