KDE 4.0: first alpha release
A first alpha version of KDE 4 has been released. Highlights include Oxygen icons (though not the Oxygen widget style), new hardware and multimedia frameworks (Solid and Phonon), the Dolphin file manager and Okular document viewer. This is a very unstable and feature-incomplete release, but the libraries have been largely stablised according to the release notes. Downloads are available here - when I checked, I could only find the sources (version 3.90.1) on the ftp.kde.org site. Anyone tempted to use this is advised to create a dedicated user account, as unstable versions of KDE 4 have been known to delete files.