[dot] KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released, Codename "Cnuth"

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From: Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org>
Dept: flying-pig
Date: Thursday 02/Aug/2007, @03:45

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released, Codename &quot;Cnuth&quot;
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   The KDE Community is happy to announce the first Beta release for KDE
4.0 [http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-beta1.php] is
available now. This release marks the beginning of the integration
process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the
now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications.  Simultaniously KOffice
[http://www.koffice.org/] have released the second Alpha
[http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-2.0alpha2.php] of KOffice
suite version 2. Highlights are improved text rendering and layout and
the new Flake library.

     Almost two months after the foundations of KDE 4 have been laid
with the first alpha, KDE enters the stage of a full freeze of the
library interface. From now on, the applications will focus on
integrating the new technology refined during the last months, and the
library developers will try to fix all bugs found during this process.
No new applications will enter the official KDE modules and usability
and accessibility work is of course an ongoing process. In the following
weeks KDE developers will be able to add features to their applications
until the next beta is released and the application features will be
frozen as well.

     The info page [http://www.kde.org/info/3.92.php] has the download
links, including packages for Kubuntu, Mandriva and openSUSE.