On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 17:35 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Fri June 20 2008 17:16:12 Kevin Kofler wrote: > > FYI, Kubuntu is dropping KDE 3 support in Intrepid Ibex, which will be > > released at about the same time as Fedora 10. > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuIntrepidVersion > > Their setup will be almost exactly as it is now in Fedora 9 (and will be in > > Fedora 10 too): no more KDE 3 desktop and core KDE 3 modules, only KDE 3 > > libraries and the KDE 3 versions of (mostly third-party) applications not > > yet ported to KDE 4. > > > > So the distro you're switching to isn't really doing much different from > > the one you're escaping from, the only difference is that they're doing > > things one release later, with the intermediary solution of > > parallel-installable KDE 3 and 4 in Hardy Heron, which we skipped because > > it would have been a lot of work for something which would probably have > > been thrown out one or two releases later (in Kubuntu, that solution is > > only lasting for a single release!). > > The difference, Kevin, is that Kubuntu shipped KDE 4.x a month before > Fedora and will support KDE 3.5 nine months after Fedora ends support. > > Kubuntu is providing people with three times the transition period that > Fedora is offering. Debian will probably go even further. > > To you that may not seem much different. To people who rely on F/LOSS > for office work and software development, that's a major difference. ---- you sort of made your point a long time ago and now you're just flogging him. People who do software development wouldn't care whether it's KDE 3.5 or KDE 4 The only usability issue that remains with KDE-4 is for low knowledge users. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
