The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era. Screenshots at The Coding Studio.

KDE 4.0 Screenshots

Several years of design, development and testing came together today for the release of KDE 4.0. This is our most significant release in our 11 year history and marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the start of the KDE 4 era. Join us now in #kde4-release-party on Freenode to celebrate or come to the release event in person next week. Packages are available for all the major distributions with live CDs available currently from Kubuntu and openSUSE. Read on for details or take the KDE 4.0 Visual Guide to find your way around.

 

KDE 4.0 Release: The Start of Something Amazing

Well, you could do it the manly way and type in the source-code listings with vi-EMACS–we spit upon EMACS!–and then hand-compile the program yourself with gcc. Or you could use apt-get, not really a man’s man way of doing it, but OK. Then, there’s the girly-man way: Synaptic, which many Ubuntu or Debian users use.

But, then there’s the little-bitty baby way of doing it practiced now by my buddy Jason Brooks. He uses–I don’t know if I can bear to say this–Ubuntu’s simple Add/Remove Applications tool. Why? Just because he thinks it’s the easiest and best way to install programs in Ubuntu.

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