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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...