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  Fedora 9 Released with KDE 4.0.3
KDE in Linux Distributions Posted by Kevin Kofler on Tuesday 13/May/2008, @08:33
from the sulphur-below-oxygen dept.
The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora 9, codenamed "Sulphur". As your periodic table will tell you, Sulphur is the element below Oxygen, a fitting release name for the third major distribution to ship KDE 4.0 (congrats to Mandriva and Kubuntu for getting there first) and the first to make it the only version of the desktop. Fedora 9 includes KDE 4.0.3. Unfortunately, KDE 4.0.4 was released too late to make it in, but there is no need to despair, it is already available in updates-testing and is expected to become a stable, tested update in a few days. To support your existing KDE 3 applications such as Kontact, Amarok and K3b, Fedora 9 includes compatibility libraries from KDE 3.5.9. As always, the KDE Live CD is installable. New in Fedora 9, the live image can also be converted to a persistent USB key. The release notes have a section dedicated to KDE 4.

In addition to the inclusion of KDE 4 as the default KDE, Fedora 9 also comes with other major new features, such as the switch to Upstart to handle system startup, an improved NetworkManager including support for mobile broadband and systemwide configuration, a new, fast version of X.Org X11, TexLive replacing tetex, unified spellchecking dictionaries and much more.

If that was not enough to convince you, you can have a look at some screenshots showing KDE 4 on Fedora 9. (The first few screenshots are of the installer, so scroll down to see the KDE ones.)



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x86_64 Live now fits on a CD
by Kevin Kofler on Tuesday 13/May/2008, @10:29
For 64-bit users, there's another good news: the KDE Live image for x86_64 no longer needs a DVD, a standard 700 MB CD is now sufficient.
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cool stuff
by jos poortvliet on Tuesday 13/May/2008, @10:31
It's cool to see they will provide updates to 4.1 when it becomes available - like Suse plans to do. I decided to put Suse on a laptop when I get a new one (if it proves to be fast enough, that is), but Fedora only lost due to it's gnominess (most tools are gnome apps, and I personally don't like mixing very much when on low-end hardware, too slow).
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RSS Feed
by Pascal on Tuesday 13/May/2008, @11:07
Is there a RSS feed for the dot?
I've looked for it several times and haven't found any.
Love the dot, Pascal.
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What's about KNetworkManager?
by Thomas on Tuesday 13/May/2008, @11:21
I'm using Fedora 8 and there is nm-applet (GNOMEs network manager systray app) integrated (in the KDE spin). However, there has been announced that there would be an update for KNetworkManager in Fedora 8, but that somehow never happened. Is there a new version of KNetworkManager integrated? It seems to me that development has stalled for this app... Any news?
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openSUSE
by Stefan Majewsky on Tuesday 13/May/2008, @11:39
On the trail of distributions with KDE 4: I'm running openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 with KDE 4.0.4 since a week or two. It works just without a flaw, and looks just great. Stephan Binner has posted a screenshot of the default KDE 4 desktop on his blog on kdedevelopers.org some weeks ago.
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why gtk applications look so ugly?
by hilbert on Tuesday 13/May/2008, @22:34
Dear all,

I've just install Fedora 9 because I was courios to enjoy KDE, but all gnome applications and in particular I mean Firefox and the network manager applet look so ugly compared to what they look with gnome.

I managed to partially fix it using gtk-qt-engine, but just once. With the next reboot I can't even log in in KDE.

Please help me!


cheers,
hilbert
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Congratulations but
by Mich on Wednesday 14/May/2008, @03:51
Congratulations for the great work!

Just recommended a friend who is new to linux to go to http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora to download and give it a try.

He screamed at me when he noticed that his desktop is different from mine. That poor chap download the "Fedora Desktop Live Media" because he didn't think that "Fedora KDE Live Media" is for the desktop.

This is a good joke !! or maybe not if you want new users to try KDE

:(
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Staying with Fedora 8
by Artem S. Tashkinov on Wednesday 14/May/2008, @09:22
Since KDE3 is not in Fedora 9 and I feel like it is impossible to leave KDE 3.5.9 from Fedora 8 intact, I'm not gonna upgrade to Fedora 9 in the nearest future.

Alas, KDE 4.0.x is not a replacement for KDE 3.5.9.
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Ugliest ever release
by Alex Lukin on Friday 16/May/2008, @04:27
This is most ugliest and buggy release of KDE ever seen for last 10 years. Kopete is crashing constantly and can't connect to google, program starter is worse even comparing to Vista, panel is ugly and not configurable, and most annoying thing is icon behavior on desktop. They live their own life populating all desktop over with strange shadows and unneded controls.

The best thing -just the brest! My laptop can not go to hybernation with kde4. It eats memory like crazy colorado bug.

But why gnome just works?

I was just forced to switch to Gnome which I really do not like, but I must work so I have no choice.

I do not understand KDE team. How you guys can call "release" this not even alpha-grade work? Such kind or "artwork" has only one consequence. You lose your users.
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4.0.4 now in updates
by Kevin Kofler on Friday 23/May/2008, @02:06
FYI, KDE 4.0.4 is now in the Fedora 9 (stable) updates.
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