The road to KDE’s 4.0 release has been a little rocky. Many complained that the 4.0 release was not really ready for public consumption and it has taken some time for the new version to be smoothed out.

Things are a lot better now, and the new features and underlying technologies really do make KDE a better platform to use.

I’m FOSSwire’s resident KDE user. While I also like GNOME as a desktop, I tend to spend most of my GUI Linux time on KDE.

So, my question is this - should I move my KDE platform to 4.0 and start covering 4.x only applications and features from this point forward? Should I stick with 3.x? Or should I stagger the transition?

It’s you, the readers of FOSSwire, that make this what it is. So - what do you want to see in FOSSwire’s future KDE coverage?

UPDATE: Thanks for all your feedback. The general consensus appears to be to start looking at and reviewing KDE 4 apps and KDE 4 specific features. I will try to make sure that future KDE posts make it clear on which versions the functionality is available.

FOSSwire has been around since October 2006. That means we’ve got a pretty impressive (if I do say so myself) back catalogue of posts on all sorts of FOSS and Linux related things.

You can search our archives by using the Google-powered search box on the homepage, but what if you’d like even closer access to our posts from any site? Well, now you can add FOSSwire to your browser’s search bar (in any browser that supports OpenSearch, including Firefox 2 and later).

Simply click the search drop-down, and choose to add the FOSSwire Archive Search.

Now, you can select it anywhere you are on the web to do a quick search of our archives, or even keep it at the top always, for the closest access to FOSSwire currently possible!

Well, FOSSwire, we’ve had some ups and downs, but overall it’s been a good year. We now have quite a reader base compared to when we started.

But now isn’t the time for reminiscing. (really, never is the time.)

You may have noticed some changes around here. Did FOSSwire get a haircut? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself. But we did add several new features:

• Tabs: Now, instead of a bajillion categories, we now only have five, and they are shown as tabs at the top of the page. Who doesn’t like tabs?
• Tags: This is where the mass amounts of categories were thrown. We didn’t really know what to do with this new feature in WordPress 2.3, so we’re just using it as our new category home.
• The Metabar: Chris calls this the Überbar. To each their own. The important thing is this is home to many more features, including:
  • GNOME vs KDE vs XFCE wars
  • FOSSwire Video: Yep, we finally support video. Expect many more posts to have this feature.
  • PkgBase Automatic Installers: This is what we were suggesting with this post. You can now enjoy a one-click style install feature for systems that support it. And for those that don’t, instructions are given.
  • Expertise Level: Know before you read a post how difficult it will be to do. Most commonly used in the Tips & Tutorials section.
• Post Ratings: For anything that can be reviewed, such as a software or game release, we can now assign a rating out of 10 to it.
• Caching: You won’t notice anything (other than comments being delayed) except for the site running a lot faster. We’re using a custom-built caching system that is by far faster than WP-Cache.

Those are most of the features, but we’ve made some cosmetic changes here and there. We think you’ll like it.

Special thanks to Peter, who kept posting away while I was coding away, and to Chris, who did the design and kept me focused on getting this done.

Welcome to Year Two.