KDE ships March updates

[viking60]

Latly I have been worried a bit about KDE 4.8 CPU usage. I all worked ok but the CPU was working hard.
Then came the March update 4.8.1

March 7, 2011. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the first in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.1 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.8 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.8.0 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come. The March updates contain many performance improvements and bugfixes for applications using the Nepomuk semantic framework.

And Arch already has it so I am testing it now- and the CPU usage is next to nothing It is snappy and uses Less than Gnome3 now.
Great stuff!

[rolf]

Very interesting!

Mandriva has always been hit or miss about closely following upstream releases of KDE, so I guess I can boot Arch and re-learn the Arch ropes.

[viking60]

Yup - Just do a pacman -Syu

Fish (ssh) works in Dolphin -that has been a problem from time to time. Everything checks out so far.