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Re: Disappointing
by Kevin Kofler on Saturday 01/Dec/2007, @14:18

If you can't wait, there's ways to try out KDE 4 in its current state right now:
* openSUSE has been preparing KDE Four Live CDs for a while already.
* The Debian KDE team is now offering something similar.
* Fedora Rawhide (i.e. what will become Fedora 9) will include KDE 4 in a few days (the import has already started). There will also be live images, at least for the 3 test releases (alpha, beta, RC), probably also for some inbetween snapshots.
* Then there's the add-on repos for openSUSE, Kubuntu and probably others.
* And finally, you can always build from source, that's what kdesvn-build and the snapshot tarballs are for.

As others have already said, calling the release "4.0 final" sooner is not going to make it any less buggy, so waiting for it to actually be releasable before labeling it that way makes sense entirely. And it wouldn't significantly change your options to get KDE 4 anyway, distros aren't going to ship a version with KDE 4 as default the day KDE 4.0 is released, and I think this slip isn't impacting any distribution's schedule in any significant way (if you're from a distro which is impacted by this, feel free to prove me wrong though).

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Re: Disappointing
by Kevin Kofler on Saturday 01/Dec/2007, @14:20

> for the 3 test releases (alpha, beta, RC)

To clarify: I mean the 3 test releases of Fedora 9 here. (Compared to earlier Fedora releases, they have been renamed test1->alpha, test2->beta and test3->RC.) I know KDE 4.0 is in RC already. ;-)

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