Beta 8.10 released

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

> 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.

Good point.

> 
>> 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...

Going a little OT here,  but I never understood how this works. kubuntu
is just ubuntu with a different default desktop right ? So if I install
ubuntu 8.04 I have an LTS release. If I then install the KDE desktop do
I still have an LTS release, or have I mysteriosuly lost this in the
process .. Just pondering.

> 
>> 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

Chris