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Friday, January 4, 2008

Happy Birthday KDE 4.0.0

Maybe it is not the move that can save the mankind or a masterpiece like the Gioconda, but KDE 4.0.0 is virtually ready for the half January release, in a style event at the Google base in Mountain View.
Actual version is not going to be an environment designed to replace KDE 3.5 right now, but instead it is a base over which tomorrow's KDE can grow. Open Source software development process is different from proprietary software one and Aaron Seigo's post explains how: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/talking-bluntly.html.
Last moment translations (and code freeze) hurry and chaos to respect the settled deadline, seemed to me the mood of a newspaper. After all, more than 700 commit in a couple of days is not a usual event.
Maybe it is too late for desktop applications, but KDE Four is a really charming adventure.

Good Year, KDE; on Monday we have to return to work using Windows :(