Beta 8.10 released

[Derek Broughton]

Emanoil Kotsev wrote:

> this hole story (I'm catching up now) gave me a good mood this morning.
> About an year ago when I read about kde 4, I was thinking well ... kde 3
> started working for me when it was in version 3.4-3.5, it might be true
> for kde 4 too, so I told everybody around me who's using linux with kde to
> not update/upgrade or what ever.

I, otoh, upgraded from KDE 1 to KDE2.0, from KDE 2 to KDE3.0 and yet had to
skip 4.0 - and possibly 4.1.

> Most of the people have this microsoft newbie illness to have the latest
> version installed (mostly without doing a backup before).

Oh, please don't blame Microsoft for that.  In fact, most of the Windows
users I know _don't_ have the latest version - and never have done.  
 
> I read then that the Hardy 8.04 version will be supported few years more
> (I think 5 - not quite sure). So I think Hardy will keep the kde 3 stuff

Kubuntu is NOT an LTS release - that means KDE 3 will NOT be supported past
normal end-of-life (18 months?  I'm an early adopter - I never know when
things _stop_ being supported).  LTS releases are supported for 3 years for
the desktop versions (5 for servers).

> What I'm interested in is if other non kde apps btw. known bugs in kde
> apps will be maintained. 

The _non_ KDE apps will be _supported_ (because Ubuntu 8.04 IS an LTS
release), but that's not quite the same as "maintained" - they'll fix
serious bugs only.

> Last but not least. Kubuntu (hardy) and Debian (lenny) offer kde 3.5 and
> kde 4.1 at the same time, so I think choice is present. 

Choice exists for now, but _not_ support beyond the normal 18 month cycle.
-- 
derek