| Art Alexion on 3 Mar 2007 17:01:53 -0000 |
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On Friday 02 March 2007 17:56, Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > On Friday 02 March 2007 08:44, Art Alexion wrote: > > I'm not so sure that the best way to test KDE is to try a major upgrade > > as soon as it is released. It is likely to have some problems in the > > first iteration that won't be fixed until, say 4.1 or at least 4.0.3. On > > Ubuntu, I'd stick with 3.5.5, if you can, 3.5.6 if you have to. If you > > try out KDE with 4.0 as soon as it comes out, I fear you will be destined > > to dislike it. > > KDE 4 is being tested very heavily, there shouldn't be any real problems > with its initial release, just as there weren't with KDE 3.0. I would > advise using KDE 4 whenever your distribution makes it the default version. > That said, the primary focus of the KDE 4.0 will be to establish the > frameworks that will be around until 5.0, some of the nifty stuff that > takes full advantage of those frameworks will come out later in the release > cycle. I agree that one would have more problems using an older version than the default for their distro. It is because there will be a major change in the frameworks that I caution upgrading on a production machine until it has been in wide use for a while. > > As for 3.5.6, it's the stable branch, I'm running it right now in Debian > and there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to stay with 3.5.5 if 3.5.6 is > available. My advice may apply to Kubuntu only. I have read a lot of posts on the kubuntu-users list from people who had things working in 3.5.5 that were not working in 3.5.6. Kubuntu tends to customize KDE a bit, and the problems could stem from those customizations and not the upstream release. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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