Beta 8.10 released

[Art Alexion]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 2:09:54 pm p.daniels wrote:
> On Wednesday October 8 2008 12:59:25 Art Alexion wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 October 2008 8:05:09 am Robert Parker wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > > Lisi,
> > > >
> > > > That is an excellent point about hardware manufacturers
> > > > pre-installing Linux. It is a huge step forward in widespread Linux
> > > > adoption and won't happen with unstable distros.
> > >
> > > Manufacturers also install Windows, the least stable distro of them
> > > all.
> >
> > I don't personally use windows or even own a Microsoft product, but I
> > support about 20 windows 2003 servers and 300 windows XP desktops in my
> > job.  I also have KDE 4 from the PPA on Hardy and a test install of
> > Intrepid.  I can tell you that windows XP is much, much more stable than
> > the current iteration of of KDE 4.
>
> Robert was being facetious, but you're being disingenuous. You support
> these XP machines; I assume you were professionally trained to do so. You
> went to school (or at least took a class) to learn how to keep those things
> running. 

No.  I have been running Linux exclusively since 2000.  I was originally hired 
to implement Linux on the desktops, but never got the authority to do so.  I 
learned Windows XP the same way, I learned DOS, Win 3.1 and Win 95/98, by 
watching things break and fixing them.

Actually, I didn't know Robert was being facetious.  I thought it was just 
another windows bash on a Linux list.  I do it myself.


> Also, XP has been out now for God knows how many years. I hope 
> it's more stable than KDE 4, or Microsoft should probably just fold their
> tents and be done with it. 

You are right of course.


> (OTOH, I've been running KDE4 since 4.0.0, and I 
> have not once gotten a virus. YMMV.)

KDE 4 is a virus. ;^)


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