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Newest Version of KDE Desktop for Linux Nears Completion

By Michael Calore November 21, 2007 Categories: Operating Systems

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The next generation of the popular KDE graphical desktop for Linux is almost ready for its official coming out party. On Wednesday, the KDE community announced the shipment of the first release candidate for KDE 4, code-named Calamity.

This is the first post-beta release of KDE 4, which along with GNOME is one of the two major free desktop environments for Unix and Linux. KDE users have access to a full range of native applications — the KOffice productivity suite and the Konqueror web browser among them. The awesome iTunes replacement Amarok is also built with KDE components.

The release isn’t yet fully formed — the new Plasma desktop shell is still being hacked together — but RC1 includes new a heap of bug fixes and has been deemed stable enough for public consumption.

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