[kde-solaris] KDE 3.3.0 Solaris SPARC 8 and 9 [32-bit] preannouncement

[Claudiu Costin]

     Wonderfull!!!

  I can't wait for it! The only things which keep me out 
working fully in Solaris 9 x86 is KMail :( and KBabel :( 
Because I must continue translating KDE in Romanian :).

  Of course, you can try to build kde-i18n-ro package for me 8^)

On Luni 06 Septembrie 2004 19:06, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> This is a small preannouncement. :-)
> 
> I will start packaging KDE 3.3.0 32-bit for Solaris today. Getting 
> this done and uploading should take a couple of days at most.
> 
> This is a full release of KDE 3.3.0, built with QT 3.3.3. This time 
> around, separate distro packages for Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 will be 
> available. KDErequired needs a full upgrade, but maintains full 
> binary compatibility with previous KDE releases.
> 
> This distro of KDE was built with SunStudio 9 (Forte 9) on both 
> Solaris 8 and Solaris 9.
> 
> If you would like some i18-n packages built, please let me know. I 
> already know about kde-i18n-de. :-) Also, please let me know if you 
> have any other special requests. I will try my best.
> 
> A few highlights: 
> 	- 4 additional, very cool looking, widget styles, courtesy of David 
> Johnson: Grover, NewStep, Phase and Qinx
> 	- SuperKaramba 0.34
> 	- i had promised a reduction in swap space/memory usage. Here it is:
> 
> [steleman at obiwan][~/programming/kde-3.3.0/extra-3.3.0][09/06/2004 
> 12:05:38][891]>> uname -a
> SunOS obiwan 5.9 Generic_117171-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
> [steleman at obiwan][~/programming/kde-3.3.0/extra-3.3.0][09/06/2004 
> 12:05:56][892]>> swap -s
> total: 170984k bytes allocated + 93120k reserved = 264104k used, 
> 9691840k available
> [steleman at obiwan][~/programming/kde-3.3.0/extra-3.3.0][09/06/2004 
> 12:05:57][893]>>
> 
> There are 2 separate instances of Forte 9 compiling with very high 
> optimization, 2 Konqueror's, SuperKaramba 0.34, 2 Konsoles, 2 xterm's 
> and GKrellM, plus GpG, KMix and KWeather. You can now shrink your 
> swap partitions. ;-P
> 
> KDevelop 3.1.0, Quanta and KOffice will follow after i am done 
> packaging and uploading the main distro, within a week at most.
> 
> As usual, i will provide patches in xdelta and full file format, 
> scripts, etc. There will also be release notes, installation 
> instructions, tricky how-to's, etc.
> 
> And now, back to work for me. :-)
> 
> --Stefan
> 



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Claudiu Costin, claudiuc at kde.org
Linux-KDE Romania http://www.ro.kde.org