[csw-users] About KDE

[Tim Smith]

Ok, so the million-dollar question ... any chance the slick 3d stuff 
will work for us mere-mortals with lower-end (sunblade1000, expert3d 
class) sparc boxen?  ;-)

Timothy Smith
IT Administrator
Degree Controls, INC



ken mays wrote:
> Yes, KDE 4.0 is the next Blastwave submission after
> the GNOME 2.14/2.16 submission for the current stable
> snapshot. I'm still playing with GIMP 2.3.15 which is
> over in our /testing area.
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> I am working off of the current KDE 4.0 (3.80.3)
> unstable snapshot which I have ported to the Sun Ultra
> 40 and Sun Ultra 45. 
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> The compositor manager works with the Nvidia Quadro
> 3500 & Nvidia drivers very well. I was able to test
> Mesa and Mesademos out as well as my ports of SGI
> OpenGL GLUT demos. Basically, all of the 3D effects
> you hear about with Compiz, Beryl, Metisse will all
> work under KDE and GNOME under Solaris.
>
> I worked on KDE 3.5.6 for Solaris, yet KDE 4.0 is a
> major milestone for Blastwave. It is too late to add
> KOffice 1.6.2 to the new stable snapshot, but I'll
> migrate it after the next stable snapshot is done (I
> hope!).
>
> Note: By the way, KDE 4.0 is not officially released
> yet and is NOT considered stable (for production use)
> yet. Once Dennis finishes his testing of the new GNOME
> for Blastwave and we tweak it a little more, I'll
> focus fully on KDE 4.0 - once again...
>
> ~ Ken Mays
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> Will be available the KDE 4 too? I think is going to
> be out for 
> summer.
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>   Thanks,
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> César
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> PD.: Is there any possibility for universities to
> enable some
> repositories with packages for openSolaris? May be
> this way more repos
> will be enabled.
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