Chad Waters on 27 Oct 2008 10:14:29 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Lenny & KDE


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Art Alexion <X> wrote:
> On Monday 27 October 2008 11:52:20 am Chad Waters wrote:
>> I'm a long time Debian user turned Ubuntu convert and I usually stick to
>> gnome. I'd suggest playing with it in a VM for a bit. Lenny is frozen, but
>> probably won't be released for a while (sometime in 2009?)
>
> Happy with Ubuntu gnome, but disappointed that Kubuntu chose to release the
> upcoming (10/31) version with KDE 4.1 only.  I suppose KDE 4 will be great
> eventually, but it still isn't quite beta, so I disagree with making it the
> default.  As the current 8.04 (hardy) version is not LTS, I was looking for
> something with longer support for KDE 3.5.

Debian is probably what you want then. It looks like Lenny will ship
with 3.5 and it should be supported for a whole year after the next
release, Squeeze, which is probably 4 years from now. :)

 http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080229
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