KDE 4.8 released [LWN.net]

KDE 4.8 released

Posted Jan 25, 2012 20:17 UTC (Wed) by alecs1 (guest, #46699)
Parent article: KDE 4.8 released

This version of Marble should have OpenStreetMap vector support if I'm not mistaken. I sure hope it won't take half a year for the packages to enter Debian (by no means do I want to sound disrespectful to the work of Debian volunteers).

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KDE 4.8 released

Posted Jan 25, 2012 23:47 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Feel free to join the Debian KDE/Qt team to make it happen faster.

KDE 4.8 released

Posted Jan 26, 2012 10:17 UTC (Thu) by moltonel (guest, #45207) [Link]

Or to change distro :p On Gentoo I got KDESC4.8's marble a couple of hours after seeing the announcement (http://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2012/01/gentoo-zero-day-pac...), before I had finished downloading the whole of KDE packages (to counterpoint the usual "Gentoo is slow installing packages" half-truth). </shameless_plug>

KDE 4.8 released

Posted Jan 28, 2012 11:50 UTC (Sat) by alecs1 (guest, #46699) [Link]

I do think of switching from Debian, but rather to Ubuntu or OpenSuse. Debian has a very good offer:
-has tons of packages easily installable;
-gets some attention from proprietary vendors (ex. Skype has a Debian package, many of the Humble Bundle games also came with a .deb version, in other occasions I could generally find a .deb file);
-is very stable with respect to upgrades. I've been running Testing/Unstable on this laptop for 3 years without a single reinstall or a need for a rescue CD, only with occasional drop to the admin console :)