Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2268 mails)

[John <john_82@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 00:26:25 John Andersen wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Washington Irving
>
> <washton.irving@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > It says nothing about KDE4 being Beta.  How could you have imagined it
> > > did?
> >
> > It was there on Friday the 18th.
> >
> > I wouldn't make such a statement if it had not been there.
> >
> > Strange how last week this wasn't challenged when the statement
> > was on the KDE home page, but now that it's been replaced....
>
> I don't discount that possibility.  The web master doesn't even date
> page changes, so its hard to tell when he changed it, but I suspect
> this thread has attracted a lot of attention in the KDE camp and they
> have rushed to paint over the evidence.
>
> They still say that KDE 3.5.9 is the "Stable version" leaving one to guess
> what description might apply to KDE4.
>
> I would expect that wording to change as soon as they catch wind of this.
> --
> ----------JSA---------

If you look at the current kde home page you will see that 4.1 preview is 
available. They aren't hiding anything on 4.04. It's the usual way kde goes. 
They chop off releases rather than continue to develop them. I don't blame 
them but it's not that good for users. A 0.1 increase in KDE is a significant 
change and may differ from -0.1 in many ways. Suse aught to say the same as 
kde about the current 3. release. It will be enterprise class and in all 
probability much more so than doze. Who cares what novell say in real terms 
there are many linux disto's about as they are very likely to find out.

I've seen comments about vista. Wife has to use it - uk education authority - 
so does brother in a variety of ways business and pleasure. It's ok for them. 
I've found a couple of lap top insanaties but over all given the updates it's 
stable maybe irritating  but ok for the majority of users. Add what one 
usually would and it makes a 2.2gig core 2 laptop slow some what. I might 
even tell them about the laptop wireless mouse stupidity but no doubt some 
one else will. That seems to be the result of an update. We even bought 
another mouse. One thing is very clear to me now. Vista has had a lot more 
pre release testing than 10.3 86 64bit ever has. Some of the expected 
software has never ever been tested by any one. Given that I'm inclined to 
think it's time novell bit the dust.

John
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