KDE 4.0 release delayed
| From: | Allen Winter <winter-AT-kde.org> | |
| To: | kde-core-devel-AT-kde.org, kde-devel-AT-kde.org | |
| Subject: | Updated KDE 4.0.0 Release Schedule | |
| Date: | Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:57:39 -0400 | |
| Message-ID: | <200708310957.40369.winter@kde.org> |
Howdy, We, The Release Team, hereby announce that we are extending the KDE 4.0.0 schedule [1] 2 months by inserting an extra 2 Betas, as follows: September 24: Beta3 October 22: Beta4 November 19: Total Release Freeze November 21: RC1 December 5: RC2 December 20: 4.0.0 tagged We feel that there are crucial elements of the release that need more development time. The feature freeze (less exemptions) remains in effect. As usual, the dates are estimates and are subject to change. -Allen, KDEPIM Release Dude [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Schedule [2] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Roadmap
Posted Sep 2, 2007 18:29 UTC (Sun)
by Xanadu (guest, #1215)
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Posted Sep 5, 2007 5:27 UTC (Wed)
by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
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At the same time, I switched from firefox to epiphany, and from akregator to liferea. Both applications start up in less than a second, compared to several seconds in the earlier environment. The machine also runs a compositing WM (beryl) very nicely, with a cheap on-board Intel card; I'll be trying out compiz-fusion soon.
Posted Sep 6, 2007 14:43 UTC (Thu)
by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
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I don't have much trouble with KDE on 256 mb ram, as long as you don't run extremely inefficient apps like openoffice and firefox.
Posted Sep 7, 2007 21:28 UTC (Fri)
by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
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I was pleased by the XFCE experience (and still use it occasionally), but once I
This is good news!
KDE 4.0 release delayed
I've been a LONG time KDE user (since .9* or early 1.0.* - I honestly
forget what I was running at that time), and I've been rather put out by
the way 4.0 was looking. The 4.0 release would've been a half-baked
release at best (IMHO). I felt this to the point of deciding I wasn't
going to upgrade to KDE4 until 4.1 at lest.
I've been failing to understand why they haven't adjusted the release
time to allow more time for the devs to include more CORE things (I'm not
referring to "fluff" in anything I'm saying here - EyeCandy !=
functionality).
I guess someone heard my wish from one of the Lucky Stars hanging
overhead. :-)
M.
I'm moving in the other direction: after 2 years of running KDE on my laptop, a low-end Celeron about 2 years old, I switched to XFCE a few days ago. I'm amazed how snappy it feels. Like upgrading to a new machine. And feature-wise, it's quite competitive with its bigger brothers, though it has some rough edges.KDE 4.0 release delayed
Well, indeed, XFCE uses a lot less memory than Gnome and KDE, as long as you don't start too many apps, that is. And firefox is a big memory hog, so dumping that in favor of ANYTHING is faster...KDE 4.0 release delayed
I did a memory test of KDE vs XFCE on my (then-)384MB laptop earlier this KDE 4.0 release delayed
year. On KDE I was using Konqueror and Kmail, and always kept them open.
In XFCE I replaced them with Firefox and Thunderbird. (Epiphany is too basic
for me.)
got it configured with equivalent apps and applets running, it was using more
memory than KDE. Of course, Firefox was the major culprit here, but it's
necessary if I want web features comparable to Konqueror.