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On Thursday 20 August 2015 2:06:34 PM Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Thursday, 2015-08-20, 10:37:59, ianseeks wrote: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Applications-15.08 > > > > >> "Ahead of the Plasma 5.4 release later this month and after last week's > > >> KDE > > >> Frameworks 5.13 release is KDE Applications 15.08." > > >> > > >> How am I supposed to keep track of these things?! > > > > Thats a lot of numbers to keep your eye on when reading about KDE > > From my point of view these kind of comments are very close to troll > territory. > > So there is one version for KDE's desktop product and one version for *all* > application products. > > How do users of vendors cope who do not release all their applications in one > go? > > How, for example, do users of Microsoft Office cope with the "problem" that > Windows has a different version number than Office? > Are they in panic when Skype does not share the version of one of these two? > Are they close to dispair when .Net or Visual Studio bring in even more > version numbers to the mix? > > Assuming they cope just fine, only keeping track of versions of products they > themselves use, why would users of KDE software be incapable of doing the > same? > For sure users of KDE software have the same intelectual capacity as users of > Microsoft software, do they not? > In all honesty it is a bit confusing and your comparison does not quite hold as MS Office is an application you choose/buy, not part of the whole package so to speak. I am just beginning to get the whole concept myself but of course different release dates, different numbering and so on does not help.
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