KDE 3.5.6 released w Kubuntu packages

[Derek Broughton]

On Monday 29 January 2007 14:25, Donn wrote:

Please don't CC me, it's rude.  This is a _list_.

> > That's just plain untrue.  You can take the plunge and install any of
> > those apps at any time you wish.  Or you can wait for Ubuntu to package
> > them painlessly.
>
> I'm more than willing to be shown to be wrong but I am not willfully lying.

I didn't say that - but you asked that Ubuntu put up a disclaimer that would 
be untrue.

> More to the point, Firefox 2 is out. Looking at the apt-get update in
> Dapper, you would not say so. That's my whole point. Please see if you can
> read the whole thread, perhaps you missed some bits.

So?  You've unfavorably compared us to Windows.  How would you get the latest 
Firefox on Windows?  I haven't tried to get it myself - I'm prepared to wait 
for it to show up in Ubuntu - but if I want Firefox 2, I would like to bet 
that I can get a copy OFF THE SAME PAGE as the Windows download.  
_Everything_ that's available for Ubuntu is available in tarballs that can be 
installed on your system.   ./configure; make; sudo make install.  Done.

This is the usual anti-Linux argument.  Set up a straw man comparing Windows 
and Linux, then show that Linux doesn't do something - invariably a closer 
analysis shows Windows doesn't either.
-- 
derek