Beta 8.10 released

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Hello,

thank you for the response.

--- On Wed, 10/8/08, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> > What I'm interested in is how long kde 3.5 will be
> supported. 18 months
> > from when?
> 
> Unless something has changed from 1/2 year ago, it is 18
> Months from 
> release of 8.04 (= April '08) for the KDE 3.5.9 part
> which makes it 1 
> year from now.
> 
> > How do I find out if my system is LST or not. I think
> I 
> > downloaded LST because of the long term support but
> don't remember
> > right. 
> 
> That was which version? I haven't seen an official page
> mentioning long 
> term support for Kubuntu 8.04. Ubuntu 8.04 is LTS but not
> Kubuntu 8.04. 

ok this explains a lot.

> Both share a lot of packages but not the desktop which is
> KDE for Kubuntu 
> and Gnome for Ubuntu. Therefore even _some_ parts of
> Kubuntu 8.04 will be 
> supported longer just not the KDE parts.

this is _odd_. I still have my debian on the other harddrive, so I think .... I rather put my efforts to improve it. The day lenny becomes stable will be a time to celebrate :-)

> 
> > If lets say in 15months kde 4 is still not usable what
> do we do 
> > then? 
> 
> Make that 12 month, but anyway you can select another
> desktop with LTS 
> support, i.e. Gnome or Xfce. Or if you really depend on

this is not an option and it proves that I, as user, am being _forced_ to do something I don't want. This is not what I've expected by k/ubuntu.

> KDE3 you would 
> have to use another distribution with longer support for
> KDE3 (I don't 
> know if that exists).
> 

Thanks Nils, this helps a lot to plan in the future and save time. 
Debian will for sure put lenny in stable state somewhen, so I think this is the best choice for me.
The motivation to try kubuntu was because few desktop things are easily managed and I've expected the kubuntu people follow the debian scheme (stable/testing/unstable/experimental).
It's obviously not true.

regards