On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 21:07:28 Achim Gratz wrote:
Luca Beltrame writes:
There are other ways for testing, including live CDs. Just saying.
Look, I'm using KDE daily and I don't look forward to yet another week of frantically trying to get my desktop working again, barely; then waiting for another two years for the rest of it, and ultimately in vain w.r.t. kmail. Developers actively burning the bridges that would allow going back at least temporarily is never a good sign, whatever the intentions.
If I can't test Plasma5 on the same machine and preferrably chose the desktop version depending on how experimental I can be today, then that's not going to happen often enough or exercising the new stuff deeply enough for the testing to be of any use.
Then there is always xen/virtualbox/vmware/other vm solution. The beauty of that is that one can install the beta in a virtual machine, play with it, test it (albeit not on "real" video hardware), blow it away and start again, all the while keeping your main desktop intact, in most cases without ever having to reboot your host machine (if you don't want to). -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org