KDE 4.0 Is Here!

Imagine, if you will, that when Microsoft came out with Vista, a monumental upgrade to the Windows OS, that they gave it to you for free - no strings attached (and more importantly, no WGA attempting to check if your version is pirated or not). Now imagine that after said release they were going to quickly update it with even more features on a regular basis.

Sound crazy? This is what I, as a Linux user, am looking at today with the KDE 4.0 release, a major step forward in the user interface of my Linux desktop. I am thoroughly geeking out today.

KDE.news: “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.”

I suggest the Visual Guide mentioned above. Great screens and feature list.