Kde 4.2.1 disponível nos repositórios do OpenSuSE!

March 4th, 2009. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of “Cream”, (a.k.a KDE 4.2.1), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Cream is a monthly update to KDE 4.2. It ships with desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, web development tools and more. KDE’s award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

The KDE 4.2 Desktop

KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary formats from http://download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or with any of the major GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today.

Enhancements

As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bugfixes and improvements. The most notable improvements have been made to Okular, the document viewer, Kopete, the instant messaging client, KMail, KDE’s email client and of course KHTML which got its usual slew of fixes, optimizations and improvements. Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into KDE 4.2.1, you can browse the Subversion log. KDE 4.2.1 also ships a more complete set of translations.

It is also worthwhile to note that 4.2.1 is now in the KDE4:Factory openSUSE repository. To add for openSUSE 11.1 you can do the following:

Também é interessante notar que a versão 4.2.1 está agora no repositório KDE4: Factory . Para adicioná-lo ao openSUSE 11/1 você pode fazer o seguinte:

sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1/ KDE\ 4\ Factory

E atualizar usando:

sudo zypper up -t package -r KDE\ 4\ Factory -y

Fonte: http://www.benkevan.com/blog/kde-421-released-in-opensuse-repository/