Software update: KDE 4.0

The developers of the K Desktop Environment, KDE for short, released version 4.0 of the software today. This release is the foundation for the development of the KDE software and the KDE platform for years to come. An extensive overview of current and future changes can be found in this news article.

Installation instructions for KDE 4.0 can be found on the official KDE 4.0.0 info page. The same page also states that Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Kubuntu and openSuse, among others, have already included KDE 4.0 in their repositories and that installation is therefore best done via the package manager.