KDE 4.2

[Evan Leibovitch]

At last night's NewTLUG meeting, one of the side topics was the general 
suckage of KDE4 that is now the default version shipped with Fedora, 
Kubuntu and other distributions.

Interesting timing. Yesterday, KDE 4.2 came out of beta. I've been using 
the beta for a few weeks on Kubuntu 8.10 and it seemed like a marked 
improvement over the early 4.1 that came with the original distribution. 
There were still some niggly things missing but nothing that was broken 
(at least IMO).

Here's a review of 4.2 (using an early beta) from Ars Technica:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/12/hands-on-kde-4-2-beta-1.ars

While 4.2 will eventually make it into the official distributions, 
Kubuntu users can get it using the separate KDE4.2 repository 
(instructions are at http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2). I hope that 
the new release coaxes a few people back (I too abandoned KDE for GNOME 
after I found the original 4.1 to be unusable, but much has been addressed).

Info on Fedora 4.2 is found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KDE42


- Evan


PS: After Colin used Pachelbel's Canon as a media example in yesterday's 
presentation, I was reminded of a video, 
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM , that should be heard by 
anyone who wants to know that dark secrets of the Canon and how it 
infects all modern music.

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