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Today, January 25, came the long-awaited version of one of the most popular DE for Unix-like systems – KDE SC 4.8.

The main innovations:

• Plasma
  • A partial translation by QML.
  • Added new features to the rooms. Now they make sense, since there was a feature of energy saving profile settings for each of the rooms. Long live the smart energy saving! Also added a handy switch rooms.
  • Added the possibility of simultaneous automatic grouping on taskbar and window title bars.
  • Added Icontasks.
  • Fixed a bug where when you press the power button, the shut down menu to appear only after 15-20 seconds.

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Those who like to take a look at KDE 4 wants to throw without having to create a CD, a DVD, a virtual appliance or a USB stick that has an ingenious way. SuseStudio offers a so-called Test Drive mode. It is a virtual machine that can be played in the browser. Simply create one below SuseStudio appliance and clicking on the right to test drive.
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Came the next release distribution Gears on Gallium, whose main objective is to provide live-system with the latest video drivers for video cards open AMD, nVidia and Intel.

Of the main changes in this release are:

• Go to the code base openSUSE 12.1.
• Choice between the mesa-gallium and mesa-classic now no video for AMD, nVidia – Driver gallium, for Intel – classic.
• Integrated version of DRM excl: DRM-next and drm-nouveau branches, with the possibility of their choice at startup. Though they may be unstable, but offer more features, for example, drm from drm-next and drm-nouveau unlike drm in the kernel 3.1.0 has many improvements for the card series and is already driving the Fermi card GeForce 520 GT, a card AMD Cayman Series and NI support for PCIe 2.0, which can give a good performance gain FPS .

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Disclaimer. Due to the fact that many (almost all) do not understand why you need Wayland, writing in the news, the good is the source of where something chewed. Text slightly podsokratil to avoid clutter.

Let’s start.

1. In Wayland can be implemented in network transparency.This case is a particular composer. The thing is a mistaken understanding of the phrase “in Wayland no network transparency.” A correct understanding of this phrase is: “Wayland specification does not deal with network transparency and does not determine it.” Composers can perform local rendering, can be a server and send a picture over the network (at least for a lot of cars at the same time), but can do both. Those who think that, in Wayland network transparency can not be generally mistaken. (more…)

In the maiden project was known as “hosted”.

Among the new:

• Changes relocated from the master branch of Xorg.
• Updates related to change in Wayland.
• Rewrote the code entry system, he now uses a driver to xf86.
• Improvements in stability, fixes leaks and memory corruption.

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In the KDE mailing occurred debate initiated by Eric Hameleers a new form of providing the source code to KDE as you can see it on the FTP . In the past, KDE consisted of several packages depending on the category such as kdeadmin, kdemultimedia, kdepim, etc. A new way of providing violates almost every scenario SlackBuild, creatures to build KDE before, now need to rewrite them over again from scratch, it takes much time and effort to create the best SlackBuild-scripts to compile the KDE packages in Slackware. This not only violates the script SlackBuilds, but it also creates difficulties for the package maintainer. So things were about to GNOME in the past.
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fter several months of developing a new version of KTorrent and libktorrent.

Of the key features in the new version there are:

• added support supersidirovaniya.
• Support magnet-links with kio-magnet .
• redesigned interface, more efficient use of technology KDE KParts. (more…)