KDE 3.5.6 released w Kubuntu packages

[Nathan Eckenrode]

On Saturday 27 January 2007 03:26:46 pm Donn wrote:
> > They are.  They are concentrating on one distro at a time to backport
> > to, namely the latest release.
>
> I must accept that this is the reality of Linux, fine, done.
>
> I reckon this upgrade treadmill should not be hidden from new users. I
> don't find any clear public explanation about this unusual fact of life on
> the Ubuntu site, nor anywhere else really.
>
The prime mover to the upgrade cycle it that of Linux itself. Linux, as you 
maybe aware, is only the kernel which access the computer's central 
processer. That's it. All the other stuff, teh pretty desktops, the web 
browsers, the graphics kits, are all built on top of that.

Within the world of kernel developers, there are two strains. One is called 
stable and the other, for lack of a more imaginative word, unstable. Unstable 
is where all the new features and prcesses are developed, such as built in 
support for wireless cards, etc. Once these are tested and proven they move 
into stable.

The Linux kernel upon which Kubuntu Dapper Drake is built has twelve months 
less development than the kernel upon with Feisty is being built and six 
months less than Edgy. In order to set up your desktop environment upon the 
particular kernel which you are running there may or may not be additional 
support for the libraries that are required.

If you absolutely must have the latest release number, then you may need to 
update your kernel. In order to update your kernel, you can do it the 
difficult way, ie yourself (ala Gentoo) or you can update the distribution 
release number you are running. 

That is one opinion of how it works and it is only offered in hopes that you 
will understand that this is a community of comuter users who are constantly 
making improvements on how the code which they are running works. There are 
occaisions where there are reversions, but generally speaking it is all 
improving. From the bottom up.
> If there is better explanation of it then please point me there.
>
>
> /d