KDE 4.3 Beta 1: A Short Preview

The KDE team made the first beta of version 4.3 of their desktop available to the general public on May 13th, 2009. As a KDE fan myself, I couldn’t wait to try it out. It took a while before Kubuntu packages were made available, however as soon as they were released I jumped on it and installed the beta on my laptop, overwriting version 4.2. What did I think of it? So far, it’s amazing and is shaping up to be yet another stellar release from the KDE team.

Please note: this isn’t a review by any means, as I am reserving final judgement until KDE 4.3 is completed and released to the public in full form. However, the following is a summary of my experiences with KDE 4.3 so far. If you’re a beginner, don’t install this beta yet, as it can and probably will destroy your KDE installation as some of the packages had to be force installed. (See below).

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