Beta 8.10 released

[Derek Broughton]

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.

I was going to say that, but ...  manufacturers also happily installed WinME
and currently install Vista.
-- 
derek