KDE 3.1.4 Released on FreeBSD

Dan writes "On September 16th 2003, the KDE Project released KDE 3.1.4. KDE 3.1.4 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and two vulnerabilities in KDM. Ports have been committed, binary packages for FreeBSD are available, including 4-STABLE, 5-RELEASE, check KDE on FreeBSD or your favorite mirror."

Re:freebsd and kde

[JobeJD]

I just set my package site to the fruitsalad project(see freebsd.kde.org) and fired up a pkg_add -r kde It worked beatifully, no hassle. Took about 30minutes on a mediocre DSL line.

Re:freebsd and kde

[CoolVibe]

Nautilus? In KDE? Surely a Mensa member knows the difference between GNOME and KDE. Or you are just trolling (which is what I suspect).

Anyway, KDE runs just fine on my 4.9 PRERELEASE laptop. Fetching the packages as we speak. Yay portupgrade! :)

NetBSD, too

[jschauma]

FWIW, NetBSD [netbsd.org]'s pkgsrc [netbsd.org] was updated on Wed Sep 17 22:58:45 2003 UTC to include KDE 3.4.1, too. Binary packages will surely soon be available for download, but if you have a decent build-host for your packages, building from source will work without a hitch, too.

Re:NetBSD, too

[Anonymous Coward]

s/3.4.1/3.1.4/, of course

Re:Thanks, But No Thanks

[desau]

Qt doesn't care about cross-platform? What sort of crack are you smoking? Windows [trolltech.com], Macintosh [trolltech.com] (including great support for OSX [trolltech.com], Embedded Linux [trolltech.com] (for PDA's, etc..), and of course, X11 [trolltech.com] (including AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64, UnixWare 7, OpenUnix 8) are all supported.

Heck, take a look at some of their success stories [trolltech.com].. many of them are on non-'nix platforms. Even Adobe [trolltech.com] uses Qt for cross platform development.

Don't get me wrong, Java is great for write once, run anywhere, but it'll never match the speed of native code. Qt is 'write once, compile and run anywhere', which gives far superiour performance to Java in graphic-intensive jobs (such as modern DE's).

I'm not a trolltech employee, I just think they make a damn good cross-platform gui toolkit.

Re:Thanks, But No Thanks

[Ed_Moyse]

Your post implicitly assumes that the "X11 worldview" (whatever that might be) is the right one. X is very, very old. It's extremely good at it's core tasks, but to say a GUI toolkit shouldn't improve and extend on X is (IMHO) nuts.

Re:BSD is developed by idiots

[AKAImBatman]

> Uhh.. since when is SunOS (ie Solaris) BSD?

It's actually a hybrid. SunOS was originally based on BSD and was BSD through and through until SunOS became Solaris (major revision 5.x IIRC). At that time, System V was licensed and integrated into the SunOS design. OpenWindows was also integrated in and the resulting product was known as "Solaris". My memory is a little hazy, but I think that Solaris never actually had a 1.0. Instead the 5.x series of SunOS was Solaris 2.x. Thus Solaris 7 is actually SunOS 5,7 and Solaris 2.7. Now with all of that out of the way, the user-land experience of modern day Solaris is pretty much entirely System V. There's most certainly still a bunch of BSD stuff under the hood, but none of it really matters since Solaris is light-years away from either heritage at this point. It just kind of *looks* SysVish.

Re:BSD is developed by idiots

[AKAImBatman]

> SunOS1.x through SunOS4.x was pure BSD

That's what I said, wasn't it? :-)

> and there *was* a Solaris 1.x -- it was SunOS4.x, so
> Solaris 1.1 was SunOS 4.1, and was BSD.

Thanks for the info! I'll keep it in mind next time I have to explain Unix history (again) to some yung'un. :-)

Re:Steps to recovery

[Helvidius]

ROFL That was funny. I don't agree with your premise that BSD is dead, but it is funny. I can see where it can be applied to OS/2. My cousin, who was an OS/2 zealot, has finally installed Win2K Pro on his computer and he can't believe how much better it is.