KDE 4.0 Release Event and its back to Arch

As you know by now, KDE 4.0.0 has been released and met with mixed feedback all around. The KDE 4.0.0 events have been taking place all over the world with the main one from January 17-19, 2008 at Google’s Campus in Mountain View, California. You can find coverage of the first and second day at Dot. The release event keynote has also been made available online on Google video and can be found here.

I’m working on fixing up my Arch installation with KDEmod4, which is actually in the KDEmod testing repository since we do not have a complete KDE 4.0.0 desktop yet. I imagine there will be wide scale adoption of KDE 4.1 in all distributions, which is due in July, 2008 according to liquidat. From what I’ve read, Aaron Seigo, President of the KDE e.V. has a real way with words, but I’ll provide more on that in a follow up to this post.

Remember I said that my distro hop was over? Well, I better not say that again until I’ve used a distribution for atleast a year, which I haven’t. So far, I’ve been disappointed with Kubuntu’s KDE4 LiveCD because of the missing icons and use of old ones, which really spoiled the ‘Oxygen effect’ for me. Also, the installation refused to detect my partitions and setup my internet. openSUSE fixed all that and I must say that YaST provides a great foundation for making spins and so does Fedora’s Anaconda installer.

Since I have no time to compile my packages from source and go with Gentoo, I’m going back to Arch which happens to be the distribution I’ve used the most. Now I’ve had to download packages intermittently, so it could take another day to get my full desktop up and running so I can provide an actual review and an article on why I’m going back to Arch.

Just remember that if you’re keen on using KDE4 as soon as possible with a long-term approach, then make sure you’ve decided the distribution that’s best for you and wait for your (six months maximum I would say) distro to release the packages in its repositories. It also depends on how adventurous you wish to be.

~ by SoftVision on January 21, 2008.