Helga: KDE Adopts Code Names via U-Boon-Too....

cwizardone · 03-08-2011, 02:52 PM

Looks like KDE is following the practice of the U-boon-too-s and naming their releases.

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KDE Ships March Updates, Codenamed "Helga"
By: Sebastian Kügler
2011, 4 Mar

In many parts of the world, spring is around the corner. Time for some spring cleaning, and that's true for your desktop and netbook as well. With 4.6.0 being about a month in the wild, it's time for the first round of updates. The KDE team has made available "Helga" (bearing version number 4.6.1), a series of updates to Desktop and Netbook workspaces, applications and the KDE frameworks that make developers' lives so much easier. The changelog lists some of those fixes, but there are more that are not contained in the changelog. 4.6.1 is also the first release served mainly out of KDE's new Git-based development infrastructure.
As usual, 4.6.1 only contains bugfixes and translation updates, so we expect smooth sailing for everyone who upgrades from 4.6.0 or earlier versions. Enjoy Helga!

Let us hope the name doesn't become "Hellacious Helga."

I was reading the comments that follow the announcement and supposedly,

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This is the first KDE release in which you can use the nepomuk semantic desktop without hassles.

http://dot.kde.org/2011/03/04/kde-sh...odenamed-helga

Well, the proof is in the pudding as they say.

TobiSGD · 03-08-2011, 03:08 PM

Giving codenames to software-versions is definitely not an invention of Canonical/Ubuntu.

cwizardone · 03-08-2011, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Giving codenames to software-versions is definitely not an invention of Canonical/Ubuntu.

True, but currently they are the most prominent in the Linux "world."

I could be wrong, but didn't IBM use code names, way back when it was developing Warp? Ditto mickeysoft with various version of ms-winblows.
I miss Warp. It was a good operating system and ahead of its time. I've never heard why they stopped development of Warp, but I've heard a rumor that mickeysoft paid them to "go away."

TobiSGD · 03-08-2011, 03:23 PM

Never tried Warp. Because of the end of development, from Wikipedia:

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Overall, OS/2 failed to catch on in the mass market and is today little used outside certain niches where IBM traditionally had a stronghold.

cwizardone · 03-08-2011, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Never tried Warp. Because of the end of development, from Wikipedia:

Some banks still use Warp to run their ATM networks. It was as good then, as XP became years later after a couple of service packs. That it didn't catch on with the "mass market" would have to be a failure on the part of IBM to properly market it. Also, the hardware to run it was much more expensive back then.

Darth Vader · 03-08-2011, 03:34 PM

Well, Helga look nice and stable in a dirty compilation on working machine...

I wait for an (unofficial) build from Alien Bob.

But, IF fellow guys are interested and Alien Bob is still busy, I can do a clean build on a virtual machine, for a x86 "release" on 10 March.

piratesmack · 03-08-2011, 04:26 PM

I'd be interested. I don't think it would be very fun trying to compile KDE on my computer (little Intel Atom netbook).

Alien Bob · 03-09-2011, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Darth Vader

Well, Helga look nice and stable in a dirty compilation on working machine...

I wait for an (unofficial) build from Alien Bob.

But, IF fellow guys are interested and Alien Bob is still busy, I can do a clean build on a virtual machine, for a x86 "release" on 10 March.

KDE 4.6.1 packages have been sitting here for a week already, but I need to wait for Pat Volkerding to release his updates to -current first. KDE 4.6.1 dependency soprano does not compile on slackware-current as it is now. The pending update to -currennt fixes that.

I predict that you do not have to wait long now.

Eric

Darth Vader · 03-09-2011, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

I predict that you do not have to wait long now.

Eric

That's was quick!

Thank You, Eric!