Beta 8.10 released

[Derek Broughton]

Christopher Rob JONES wrote:

>> The whole point of having a computer is so that it functions and you
>> get work done. I would love to see 4 take off and do well but have yet
>> to read a review that says it is wonderful and just as usable and
>> stable as 3. Until then at least let me pick!
> 
> You can choose. If you want KDE3 stick with the LTS 8.04 release ;)

Or not :-)  This is a debian-based distro - which means that just because
Ubuntu packages things up nicely in a semi-annual release, and provides a
clean upgrade path for doing that, doesn't mean you're bound to it.  If you
want to upgrade everything _but_ KDE you can do that.  Read about
apt-pinning, change your sources.list to point to 8.10, do "aptitude
update; aptitude full-upgrade --simulate" and see what you need to pin.  It
won't be simple - but if you wanted simple you'd stick to Ubuntu releases.

> 8.10 is not an LTS release and traditionally this is the time for more
> drastic changes. 

Except that 8.04 wasn't an LTS release for Kubuntu, either...

> We need to drop KDE3 sometime, and for me, 8.10 + KDE 
> 4.1.2 is as good a time as any to do this.

+1
-- 
derek