The Greatest KDE Distro Ever: An Early Look at openSUSE 11.3
This week marks the first milestone release of openSUSE, on the road to 11.3. With their current stable release, 11.2, the distribution made KDE the official default desktop and thanks to their efforts, created the greatest implementation ever.
Now, with version 4.4 on the way the KDE desktop experience from openSUSE is looking to be better than ever.
The New KDE
If you’ve already been using a recent version of KDE, such as 4.3.5, you probably won’t notice a huge amount of difference between it and the upcoming 4.4. Most of the changes are under the hood with no doubt countless bug fixes and tweaks. There are a number of less subtle changes however, such as the new Plasma interface for netbooks, a technology preview. KDE has come a long way since that initial 4.0 release and this upcoming version 4.4 will be one of the greatest achievements on the desktop for 2010.
The existing stable version is getting useful updates in a regular time frame, while the developers continue to work on the next major release. The KDE team has really been doing a top notch job of improving the code and that is to be commended. What we have today, is truly a marvellous desktop environment and suite of applications to rival any other out there. With the ability to also run on Windows and OS X, the quality and breadth of Qt applications should only increase. Naturally the KDE desktop will benefit from this new focus and become a more and more rich environment over time.
Let’s take a look at a few of the major improvements included in KDE 4.4-rc1:
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