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Slackware-current adopts KDE SC 4.10

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It happened faster than I had thought, considering the slow pace at which slackware-current has been evolving these past months. But there is a massive flurry of activity and Patrick Volkerding has pushed lots of updates to the development branch of Slackware lately. Quite interesting was the addition of the elilo and gnu-efi packages of course, which indicate future support in Slackware for UEFI-based hardware (UEFI being the sucessor to the good old BIOS). Slackware already supported GPT partition tables (successor of the good old MBR) so this looks promising for buyers of “Secure Boot” computers. Don’t forget to wipe that awful Windows 8 first! It would not make any sense to keep it on a computer if you can install Slackware on it in its place.

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Comments (6)

notbob ·
Perhaps a big thrill for bleeding edge freaks, but I don't get it. What's the point of upgrading to a newer KDE when the old version is still either incomplete or often useless? Really. I like KDE and use KDE, behind fluxbox, at least the more common apps like ocular and gwenview, etc, but try and fly krita. I'd like to, but the documentation is pretty much non-existent. There's a handbook with a table of contents, but clicking subject links yields way too many "under construction" or "todo". Talk about vaporware. Trying to stumble around a function or screen is jes not productive. So, what's the point of upgrading to an even more useless non-functioning version?
caitlyn ·
Gee, I thought KDE was a desktop environment. I didn't know you had to use a painting application to use a desktop environment. As a desktop environment KDE works very well nowadays. krita? I don't even have it installed.
jdixon ·
> What's the point of upgrading to a newer KDE

It's Slackware-current. Early adopters will test it and find out if it's suitable for inclusion in the next release of Slackware. The people who use Slackware-current pretty much are "bleeding edge freaks". Well, as much as a Slackware user can be.
tracyanne ·
[ quote]krita? I don't even have it installed.[/quote]

me neither. But as you have it install notbob, perhaps you'd like to contribute bug reports to the Krita devs.
notbob ·
I was mistaken in believing krita is a part of kde. It once was, but no longer. Wiki has the gory details.
othersimon ·
notbob, Krita has never been a part of what is now known as the KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform (previously KDE Software Compilation, before that just KDE). Some apps (like Okular and Gwenview that you mentioned) are part of KDE itself. However there are many other applications that are part of the wider KDE community (using KDE libraries/infrastructure etc) which are released separately. Calligra (and before it KOffice) which Krita is a part of are released separately on their own schedule.

Of course some distributions choose to install Calligra by default, but it is not a part of the KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform.

By the way, KDE 4.10 has been rock solid for me, even if you're really averse to being bleeding edge 4.10.1 or 4.10.2 should be safe. Not that 4.9 was incomplete or useless...

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