Is this possible?

[Billie Walsh]

Knapp wrote:
> I will say it again. The problems are not with KDE changing and
> improving. That is the right thing for them to do!!!!!!!!!! The
> problem is with making a program, OS, Desktop the standard before it
> is ready!!!!! The set up of 8.04, with kde4 in the background is the
> way it should have stayed for at least one more year. Then when the
> change was made people would be saying WOW, GREAT. At the same time
> KDE3 should in this edition with the switch be an option in the
> background so that grumpy, hate to change types don't have to!
> The way this change is being done by Kubuntu is really bad (I would
> say stupid but I learn from others mistakes) IMOHO.
>   
I've asked this question before but no one seems to want to address it 
so I will restate it in another form.

_Who is holding a gun to your head to force you to change to 8.10/4.x????_

I presume, from the tone of many, that 8.04/3.5.10 is installed on most 
of your computers and working just fine. Doing what you want it to just 
the way you want it done. 8.04 will be supported for at least the next 
year and the "Ubuntu" part of it for another year plus after that.

I'll answer my own question.

_NO ONE!!_

Here's the conundrum for the developers. They only have so much man 
power to develop Kubuntu or KDE. Right now KDE is going through a major 
change so _all_ their efforts need to be focused on making it work, 
leaving no time available to work on KDE 3.x. The Kubuntu developers had 
to make a decision based on this fact. Right or wrong I'm sure they made 
what to them seemed the best [ most logical ?? ] choice knowing full 
well that 8.04 would be supported, and stable/usable, for at _least_ 
another year.

If it's a production machine stick with 8.04/3.5.10 for at least the 
next year. If it's a play computer and your willing to put up with KDE 
4.x while they get it "fixed", go for it. If your handing someone a 
disk, give them 8.04/3.5.10 and tell them not to upgrade till at least 
next spring and more likely next fall. It's not that hard to figure out.

I have an OLD 386 Bondwell laptop under my desk that still runs DOS 6.22 
and Windows 3.1 just fine. That software is at least thirteen years past 
it's "expiration date". It still does what it's supposed to do. Old 
software/OS's don't die just because they have been replaced

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