[dot] KDE 4.1 Beta 2 Ready For Testing

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From: Sebastian Kuegler <sebas at kde.org>
Dept: midsummer
Date: Tuesday 24/Jun/2008, @05:43

KDE 4.1 Beta 2 Ready For Testing
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   Another milestone on the road towards KDE 4.1 has been packaged and
put online for testing. The release notes
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1-beta2.php] highlight some
features in Dolphin and Gwenview, as well as additional information on
where to get the release, make sure you also check your distributor's
websites as well. While there are some bugs left, the release already
works quite solidly on most people's machines. Performance problems on
NVidia chips remain, but we are confident that those will be solved by
the teams over at NVidia in one of the next releases of their graphics
driver. In KDE 4.1, there is also some preliminary Mac and Windows
support coming up. Several apps can be tried by a wider audience on
those proprietary platforms this summer already. On the side of Free
operating systems, support for OpenSolaris is coming along nicely, but
is not free of bugs yet.

     As every Beta, we release this software to gain feedback and to
provide a preview of our upcoming technology. When encountering problems
during testing, please help us by reporting bugs through KDE's Bugzilla
[http://bugs.kde.org] so developers are aware of them and can make the
necessary changes. When trying this release you will encounter a number
of new things, most of the new features are listed on Techbase
[http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Release_Goals], make sure to
check out that list and give the next KDE a whirl.