On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Per Jessen
Timothy Butterworth wrote:
I did not realize until today how many users are actually running old openSUSE releases that are not even under maintenance any more that is kind of a scary though. I am curious as to the reasons why they are doing this? If it is a technological issue preventing them from upgrading, if they are doing this to hold onto KDE 3.5.x etc.
For desktops in the office, we have been deliberately holding back to stay on KDE3 for now. We're slowly introducing 13.1 with KDE4, and at some point we will have to bite the bullet.
KDE 4 has gotten a whole lot better since the KDE 4.2-4 time frame. I used it the whole way though but I can see why people would want to hold back on such a large development moving target until it reached a stable maturity. You may want to take a look at Trinity Desktop if you really want to continue to stay with KDE 3.5.x until Plasma 2 goes mainstream and is recommended for daily user functions. https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ Trinity has Repos for openSUSE 11.4, 12.2, 12.3 and 13.1. It would be nice if we could phase out all KDE 3 from openSUSE and replace it with Trinity Desktop possibly in openSUSE 13.3. I do not know how many others would also like to have this option made available. Hopefully we can just talk this group into packaging the openSUSE versions into OBS or just migrating the entire project to OBS since it can package for multiple different distros.
For servers, it's a matter of avoiding unnecessary change and effort. If an upgrade brings no discernable/necessary benefits, why bother?
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