Beta 8.10 released

[Lindsay Mathieson]

Cary Bielenberg wrote:
> Can I put a different spin on this (excuse me if it has already been 
> said) Kubuntu is the poor brother to Ubuntu with very finite 
> resources, having the team support KDE3 past 8.04 is silly, yes some 
> of us pine for the old KDE but in the end any time devoted to keeping 
> another system going past Hardy just is way too much a drain on little 
> resources we have. I get frustrated at the length of time it takes to 
> get patches & new functionality into Kubuntu & any where we can 
> lighten the load should be explored. Dumping a 2nd UI I believe just 
> makes sense.


Yah, on the whole I agree, maintaining two separate KDE's is just not 
feasible even in the short term, I'm surprised they even did it for Hardy.

OTOH I appreciate people spain who want to keep current with Kubuntu 
releases but need stable desktops, because KDE 4.x just isn't there yet, 
and I doubt Intrepid will be any better. The problems aren't in the base 
distro, its KDE itself and there isn't a lot Canonical can do about that.

I dunno what the solution is other than wait for KDE 4.3 or 4.4. Maybe 
Kubuntu should have stuck with KDE 3.5 till 2009, but people would have 
been upset with that as well. Rock and a hard place really.




-- 
Lindsay
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/album