[ Thanks to Prashanth for this link.
]
“This is the second part in my series of previews of
Debian 6 “Squeeze”. The ISO image I used this time was again the
daily build from 2010 October 3. I tested this in VirtualBox with 1
GB of RAM allocated to the guest OS and a 25 GB virtual hard drive
available (the same one on which I installed the GNOME version).“Why am I covering KDE separately from GNOME? It may seem
strange at first, considering that Debian doesn’t make too many
huge modifications to the DEs it uses. However, the fact that KDE 4
(at version 4.4) is included means that KDE 4 has finally reached a
level of stability that is acceptable to the developers of stable
versions of Debian. Previously, the only distribution based on
stable Debian that used KDE 4 was SimplyMEPIS 8.5, based on Debian
5 “Lenny”. Now it looks like that may have some competition (though
I have heard some rumblings on the Internet that a new version of
MEPIS is coming soon — I can’t wait to get my hands on
that!). Follow the jump to see what it’s like. The boot and startup
time is (again) quite fast. The desktop is a plain-Jane KDE 4.4
desktop. I realized it was KDE 4.4 due to the old system tray icons
combined with tabbed windows.“Konqueror
“Mozilla Firefox is not included; Konqueror is the only web
browser present. Although Gnash is included, it kept crashing
whenever I tried to use YouTube or similar sites; this is not an
especially good sign, though of course the proprietary codecs
themselves can be downloaded and installed after adding the
appropriate repositories. I’m pretty sure, however, that the codecs
crashing is the fault of the codecs, not of KDE.”