Release frenzy
So, today we not only have Canarias, the second beta of KDE 4.2 (which is seriously cool), and the release of OpenSUSE 11.1 (which is seriously cool), but at Hyves, Arend (ex-Krdc hacker) and me (krita hacker...) released the first version of the Hyves Desktop!
It's "only" a beta, and right now only Gold Members of Hyves can download it, but they are free to pass installers onto their friends and their friends unto their friends unto the nth generation.
But we did it! In only about four months we, that is Arend, me, Girish and Roop (of KOffice ODF fame) managed to hammer out a chat application with built-in photo uploader and blog/photo/news viewer. And it runs on Windows, OSX and Linux (though you probably won't have sound on OpenSUSE -- blame the gstreamer backend of phonon)
I'm a bit dizzy (also because of the celebratory beer) and excited and all that. This has been a cool ride. And now for a nice holiday and then for the final release -- which will be usable and useful for just about half the population of the Netherlands.
And I even managed very nearly at least one commit to KOffice this week, even though those were small commits :-)