PC/OS 10.1 KDE release coming

Today we are pleased to announce the imminent release of PC/OS 10.1 KDE. One of our community members has decided to take control of this release and will be responsible for it. Micheal Vale, also known on the forums as mikev, is making this spin. After a few releases of a personal KDE release he submitted his work, we examined it to make sure it met our quality standards and it has. This will be the first KDE release of PC/OS. Here is a short FAQ on the KDE release.

1) Will PC/OS be changed over to a KDE desktop?

A) No, it will not. This is a totally separate release and will be maintained by the individual named who will develop his own team for this. At the moment until he gets a team established he will have the full cooperation of the PC/OS developers.

2) Why KDE and not GNOME?
A) We already have a desktop based on XFCE another GTK desktop, all applications for GNOME can be run on XFCE. GNOME has always been downloadable from the repositories.
We are releasing this because there are quite a few fans of KDE and many businesses who have invested in QT itself, this allows them to switch or adopt PC/OS and continue their investments.

3) Will KDE be treated as a second class citizen?
A) No, we are committed to making this happen and the KDE release will be released in conjunction with the XFCE release. 10.1 KDE will come out sooner as the developer has been working very hard on this so there will be no beta release of PC/OS 10.1 KDE

4) Will there be a CD release of PC/OS 10.1 KDE ?
A) For now it will be a DVD release. The CD release of PC/OS is XFCE based due to the fact that many recyclers use it and their machines tend to be older that cant support KDE 4. If the demand comes, we will release a Webstation KDE release.

5) Will there be a 64 bit version of PC/OS 10.1 KDE?
A) No, until the team gets established and has a solid footing it will be 32 bit only, although you can run it on a 64 bit machine. This is to keep the initial developer from getting burnt out as supporting two platforms is hard to do for one man.

6) Will my support contract cover PC/OS 10.1 KDE?
A) Yes it will. We will cover PC/OS 10.1 KDE and further releases of it.

7) Will you still have the Be type decorations on PC/OS 10.1 KDE?
A) No, Oxygen is beautiful as it is. The default desktop will share the same background picture and the KDM will be themed to look like the OpenWorkstation release.

8) When will it be released?
A) When its ready. We are looking at a couple of weeks although we haven't settled on a date. We are now putting the finishing tweaks on it.

So customers and enthusiasts have talked, we have listened and I want to thank Mike for agreeing to take part and welcome him to the team.