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KDE 4.3.0 (Caizen) Released: Stable, Fast, but Still Not Perfect

I found this interesting post by jeremy on KDE It seems as though time is flying by and it was only just yesterday when KDE 4.0 was released and stirred up quite a bit of controversy in the Linux world. Now the latest issue of the popular desktop has arrived in version 4.3. While a great release by itself, there are some remaining issues that remain that keep it from absolute perfection. First of all, let’s talk about the good things. KDE 4.3 is stable. Very stable. It seemed apparent from the start that the KDE developers were taking no prisoners with the stability of this release. As someone that has been playing with this new version since its first beta, I’ll be the first to tell you that it’s been more stable than normal from the start. Granted, there were the usual bugs found during testing, but nowhere near as many as I was used to. The major issue was the constant crashing when the first release candidate was published, and then seemingly out of nowhere a second release candid...

Audio players for Linux

In Linux there is a variety of audio players and some really very good, not for the fact that play music correctly, but they do all the comforts and accessories that we offer. I made a small collection that I think are the best and most well known, it is clear that this is based on my tastes so I strongly recommend to comment on this post which is more suited to your tastes: Amarok: which i like use every day to listen to the music, a lightweight player that has everything you need, multiple playlists, integration with other KDE applications, it downloads lyrics from the Internet, socialized through Last.FM, information of the artists on wikipedia, apparently set by CSS ... as you can see an endless list that makes it my favorite player without doubt. Exaile: uses GTK + and the features I'm very similar to those found in Amarok. Banshee: I have to stress this for its ease of operation. And the library is great for people who have a large collection of songs on your hard disk. Y...