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…that I have never seen, and never had the chance to see. So Jono, here you go with my list

• Led Zeppelin
• Pink Floyd
• The Beatles

I would love to head to England and see Led Zeppelin play their 1 time only reunion next month. I have been to a many Pink Floyd laser light shows here in the US. If you are in the US, and have never seen a Pink Floyd laser light show, I am telling you right now to get to one. For those of you in the Hotlanta area of Georgia (US), get to Stone Mountain, that is of course if they are still doing them there. I seen 1 or 2 shows there many years ago. Absolutely amazing! Those of you in Colorado, January 18th is the next show. HERE is a YouTube video, very quick, showing off what the show is like. If you look in the right pane on YouTube (or ewwTube because of the flash requirement ) you can see a bunch of other videos.

Well, it is almost bedtime, but before I went, I wanted to show off my KDE 4 desktop as it stands right now. Note, I do not use all of those plasmoids, I was just playing to see what all was working. Thus far, weather and temperature (cpu) are the only ones not working for me, but I am sure after further tweaking I can get them to work. Well, w/o further ado, here you go:

What you are seeing is the trashcan, battery indicator, network connection, calculator, comic strip from the web, clock, hardware info, and KDE twitter. So, now that I have a Twitter account, feel free to follow me.

I am currently writing up some information for extra applications available to Kubuntu users and a couple of people have expressed that having information about some Gnome panel applets would be good. Can you run Gnome panel applets in KDE? I have never tried, nor have the time right now, but if you could let me know I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

/me whisks away to find a pumpkin pie to eat

Today, Sebastian Kügler of KDE fame, announced the release of KDE 4 RC 1, codenamed “Calamity.”

While the final bits of Plasma, the brand new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, are falling into place, the KDE community decided to publish the first release candidate for the KDE 4.0 Desktop. Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 which is suitable for general use and discovering the improvements that have taken place over the entire KDE code base. The KDE Development Platform, the basis for developing KDE applications, is frozen and is now of release quality. (Kügler)

Jonathan Riddell and Terence Simpson have been working hard today backporting this latest release into Gutsy. Some of you may be wondering where Beta 4 was, and due to a bug in the PPA (Personal Package Archive), we were unable to get a new package to build against universe. That has since been taken care of.

For you Foresight Linux users, I am currently in the process of working on KDE 4 RC 1 packages for fl:2-devel. Hopefully within the next couple of days, you will be able to run:

$ sudo conary update kdebase-runtime=kde.rpath.org@kde:4-devel

I have been running KDE 4 full-time now for the past few weeks and I have to say it is really shaping up nicely. I have only witnessed a handful of crashes and quite a few of annoyances that I have to get used to. Other than that, congrats to everyone who has been working their arse off shaping the future of KDE 4. Thanks!

UPDATE: KDE 4 RC 1 for Gutsy are available!

What is everyone waiting for? Get on over to MoM and start merging! As of right now, there are 208 outstanding merges! Some of you have your work cut out with fixing errors, but for you new people who want to eventually become a MOTU, there are a ton of little easy ones for you. Universe is where the love is needed.