KDE 4.0 released: rough, but ready for action

"The KDE development community officially announced the much-anticipated release of KDE 4.0 this morning. This new version of the open-source desktop environment represents a daring leap forward for the project and includes many radical deviations from the previous KDE 3.5.x series. Significant changes are present at virtually every level of the KDE desktop stack, from the underlying development architecture to the user interface."