The release of KDE 4.0 is around the corner.  After having tried the previous betas, I must say that the current release candidate is much improved.  However, there are still some serious issues that need to be resolved, mainly with plasma.  Dolphin in this particular RC was also quite unstable.  Konqueror, however, seemed to work quite nicely.

The long awaited 3D effects built into KWIN were also activated in the Kubuntu release. It is very impressive, albeit not as many effects as Beryl/Compiz.

Overall, the visual presentation was so nice that I hated going back to KDE 3.5, but it just simply is not yet stable enough for production.  It is, however, getting very close.  It will be nice to start off the new year with a brand new, beautiful, and lightning fast desktop environment.  Ready or not, here KDE4 comes.

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