New KDE 4.0 Kernel

[Psyber]

I had a play with this today on a DVD as KDE4 Live in OpenSUSE, which can be booted and run from the DVD to sample prior to installing it. The DVD also includes a live version of Ubuntu 7.10, and an installable iso of FreeBSD 6.3 - a GUI version of BSD. It all came with other software on the UK "Linux Format" magazine for April 2008.

KDE4 is not bad. Both it and Ubuntu could read my Windows drives and files and copy from them on my secondary HDD, but they would need to be installed and some extra software added to read my RAID 0 array.

Even running from the DVD, once you had a programme open it was more responsive than my XP Pro installation. Opening programmes, like the browser, from the DVD took a while, but once up and running it ran well, and the Konquerer browser worked well on this and another php site. The Ubuntu installation includes Firefox for Linux.

I'll dig out an old machine to try out BSD later - its in the garage and its less 9 degrees outside here.