Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 <at> gmail.com> writes: > Subject says it all. Fedora developers tell us that they can't give us > a choice of KDE version and yet Ubuntu is doing it. That's not true: All packages in Intrepid containing "kdebase": http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=kdebase&searchon=names&suite=intrepid§ion=all -> only 4.1.2 stuff, no KDE 3 stuff! All packages in Intrepid containing "kde3": http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=kde3&searchon=names&suite=intrepid§ion=all -> only some bindings, no apps. So where's the KDE 3 you're talking about? Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex DOES NOT INCLUDE KDE 3! See also the link posted by Sebastian Vahl: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/KDE3-KDE4Migration which is very clear on this. > Ironically, Fedora says their distribution is more cutting edge and yet > Ibex gets kernel 2.6.27 and we are still stuck with 2.6.26. Because they just released it! Fedora 10 will also have 2.6.27 at release time. A 2.6.27 update for Fedora 9 has been built in Koji, I'm sure it will hit updates-testing soon. It's a different thing to release a new distro with a new kernel, where the betas have been tracking the betas of the kernel all this time, than to update an existing distro to the new kernel version. Fedora is actually one of the few distributions even doing the latter. You're just being impatient (while at the same time complaining that KDE is too new), 2.6.27 WILL be pushed to F9. > I think the KDE-3.5.10 decision demonstrates that Ubuntu developers are > more sensitive to user end needs. The "KDE-3.5.10 decision" you're talking about is completely imaginary, they actually made the exact same decision we did (not to ship KDE 3 anymore)! So their ACTUAL decision on KDE 3.5.10 actually proves the exact opposite of your point (i.e. that we did the right thing). > I know a bunch of people are going to chime in and say "Fedora isn't for > you" and "Its a bleeding edge distribution", etc. I think those are > just excuses for a developer community that wants to do it own thing > irregardless of what users actually want. They are just hard facts. That said, even Kubuntu which primarily targets new users now decided NOT to ship KDE 3. > Don't shoot me, I'm just the squeaky wheel/messenger. To stay with your analogy, you're the liar messenger who is relaying a false message, so of course you will be proverbially "executed" (in the sense of "shooting the messenger") for it. ;-) The "don't shoot the messenger" saying only makes sense when you're really just relaying a truthful message, it doesn't excuse spreading FUD. Next time please check the facts before pulling up an argumentation entirely based on incorrect information, otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
