On Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 17:02:13 Neal Becker wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > > With kde-4.8.0 to be officially released any minute/day now, and to > > forestall the deluge of questions like > > * How do I get kde-4.8.x for f16 > > * When will kde-4.8.x be released for f16 > > > > and help get things tested, I threw together a (hopefully temporary) > > backports repo, > > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rdieter/kde48/ > > > > similar to what we did with f15/kde47 > > > > It contains just the minimal builds needed to get up and running with > > kde-4.8.0 (as opposed to kde-unstable repo that has other stuff like > > calligra). > > > > Hopefully, this will lower the bar and make it easier to use, and get > > more folks using and testing it. Oh, and to answer question 2 above, > > well just have to wait and see how testing goes. Please do give feedback. > Thanks Rex! How is testing for 4.8.0/f16? Haven't heard much yet. > Wondering whether to risk my primary laptop. I have been using it here since last night and all is working very well. As usual a painless update (from 4.7.97) It is running on my main machine (x86_64) so it is getting heavily tested :-) Thanks to all involved.. Colin -- Fedora release 16 (Verne) Registered Linux user number #342953 _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org