Posted on 12/13/2007 3:56:23 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Although the release candidate has many rough edges and is significantly lacking in polish, the underlying technologies are all in place and deliver some very impressive functionality. KDE 4 offers some unique architectural advantages over its predecessor.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’ve got 11 different Linux distros installed on several computers around my office, and the most over all usable ones have the KDE 3.5 front end. Some folks prefer Gnome or XFCE, but after fiddling with just about all of the mainstream distros I settled on openSuse 10.2 with the KDE 3.5 front end.
EVEN armed with better eye candy, the new KDE 4 interface claims to use 40 percent less memory than its earlier versions.According to the German Pro-Linux News, KDE 4 tests showed that it is a substantial improvement on KDE 3.5.
The old version needed 348MB to work comfortably while the new one sail through the same tests using only 228MB. In comparison the rival Open Sauce interface GNOME run needs 256MB just for the basics.
The reason appears to be a reduction in memory hungry components in all aspects of the environment. The only bit that seems to take up more memory is the kwrapper.
KDE 4, which is on its last release candidate, was supposed to be released on December 11, although now it seems that the development team want to delay its release until January now.
Hah! I just read that 20 mins ago and was going to post it.
Microsoft....... and even apple......... could learn from this.
More eye candy. More features. More of new everything.
And it uses less memory. And it’s also faster, most likely due to the less memory usage.
And the Mozilla group.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
LOOL!!!!
Yeah, I’ve taken to Konquerer in recent months. A perfect browser doesn’t exist, but I find it to be very fast.
I had a chance to mess with Knoppix a couple of weeks back, and was very impressed. Konquerer looked good, and "IceWeasel" (Firefox) kept using tiny fonts for whatever reason.
Gnome is okay, perhaps in a couple of respects it's actually better, but KDE just grabbed me the first time I saw it. And I like blue.
Seems a good time to tell anyone that doesn't know about it to check this Mozilla backup program out.
Yeah, KDE is well built. Though in fairness, it is at 3.5.x, it’s a high revision number. *VERY* mature. But that aside, the Kteam(and surrounding projects, such as amarok) makes excellent software.
Now it’s getting better, so much better that they’ve made code that’s smaller, faster, and is loaded with more features. Not many software houses can claim that. 40% smaller(if what we’re told is true) is extremely significant.
And also in fairness, part of the code shrink is due to QT 4.x, if they didn’t have good coders they couldn’t take advantage of it so much.
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