Re: [opensuse] Alfa, Beta... was: Suse 10.3 install - oh dear (rant only)

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 12:03 -0700, John Andersen wrote:

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Hans Witvliet wrote:

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On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 19:28 -0400, Washington Irving wrote:

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And that's the problem... there's NO indication to those unfamiliar to Linux that KDE 4 is still alpha-quality.

What's in a name...

Reading the comment, it made me wonder... KDE4 not being released until 2009, beta, alfa

So i had a look at kde.org. Here it stated clearly that the basic framework for KDE4.0 is released. Not beta or even alfa! Just a number of addon applications that still have to be "ported"

KDE-4.0.4 _IS_ released.

Only reference to something being alfa is KDE4.1.

(And if you want something in a (from quality P.O.V) stadium, try running Vista ;-)

Vista is at least complete, not lacking any features in XP, highly configurable, and in my experience very stable.

But to your main point: that KDE4 is Released....

You MUST realize that the claim that it is Released is simply further condemnation of KDE4, making it even less suitable!

It is almost impossible to configure to any degree comparable to KDE3. If the core of KDE4 is released, and a few addons are all that remains undone it does not bode well for KDE4.

Don't want to condemn kde4, on the contrary. Just want people to have go at it. Sure, i know not all work is done (to put it mildly) Seeing the amount of packages that are updated daily on the buildserver give you a fair indication how much work is still done.... Not just on unstable or factory, but for "stable" as well. But it looks and feels good! And about "the other" branche... Just bought an Acer-L3600 for one of the kids for a very, very simple game that learns him arithmetics (table-trainer) I won't complain about the truckload of irritating pop-up messages that a little kid does not understand and can't be switched off. No Vista is rock solid, freezes within an hour and has to pull the powerplug to stop it. (in contrast to xp) No, no virus, it's never been connected to the net and behaved like that out-of-the-box. With quality poducts like that, Linux is not an obvious choise, merely the only choise. Seriously are tempted to have a go at wine... hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org