KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 Released

Posted by Michael Larabel on July 04, 2007

The second alpha release of KDE 4.0 is now available on this Independence Day here in the United States. KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 was released in Glasgow where the KDE aKademy conference is presently taking place. Many exciting things for KDE 4.0 are taking place with Plasma and KDE System Settings. In the coming weeks the main KDE libraries will be stabilized for the KDE 4 life-cycle and kdelibs will be frozen by the end of July. KDE 4.0 is still on target for release towards the end of October. More information is available at KDE News.

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