After years of development and preparation, the KDE open source desktop community celebrated the much-anticipated version 4.0 release this month, but the word among the project's leaders is version 4.1 will only be a further six to nine months away.

According to many of the developers, the 4.0.0 release was never meant to be a final "KDE4" release, but rather a stepping stone to allow Linux distributors and end users to test the fundamental new technologies shipped with it.

Release 4.1, however, is touted as a more polished representation of what the KDE4 paradigm will offer desktop computing as a whole.

Core developer Aaron J Seigo likes the idea of a July release of 4.1 as there is "a lot of 90% done stuff", including the Mac OS X and Windows ports, the Akonadi PIM service, and the Decibel real-time communications framework.

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