<OT> RedHat makes a buck

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 23 20:01:51 PST 2008


Collins Richey wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>> Bigtime, continuous angst on the SuSE list over the decision to push to
>>> KDE 4.0 versus KED 3.5 before "it was soup".  But apparently there are
>>> similar issues on the Fedora list over the same decision.  Others on the
>>> list who are bleeding edge current can comment.
>> Same with Kubuntu....   and I thought other distro's were smarter than that.
>>
> 
> Debian is right for once. KDE 3.5 will be in Lenny, and even sid
> (unstable) is holding on to 3.5 until after the Lenny release. Of
> course, that means that KDE4.? will pop up in sid soon after the
> release, and the quite stable unstable may actually become unstable
> for a while.
> 
> 

If one believes the discussion on the SuSE list, KED 4.x is improving so 
maybe by the time it appears in Debian, it will do what is expected.  A 
novel idea, eh?  debug and test a very new thing before releasing it?? 
(I know nothing about it;  I always wait until all of the guinea pigs 
have thoroughly beat something to death before switching)
;-)


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Tony Alfrey
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