Staying with Hardy

[O. Sinclair]

Alvin wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 October 2009 10:20:09 Neil Winchurst wrote:
>> I use kubuntu Hardy, which is just about 18 months old now. The new
>> version, Karmic, is due out soon. Since I have Hardy tweaked exactly how
>> I want it I plan to stay with it. For example, I want to stay with
>> konqueror not dolphin. I have java and flash running just fine. It can
>> take ages to get a new version ready for me. And updates would probably
>> not work.
>>
>> Up to how I have had regular updates, including some today. What are the
>> implications of staying put with Hardy please? Will I still get some
>> updates or not? Is it a good idea to stay put?
>>
>> Thoughts anyone?
> 
> There was a short discussion on the list recently:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/2009-August/045984.html
> 
> Basically, you will still receive patches for the Ubuntu part, but not for 
> KDE, because Kubuntu does not have LTS releases.
> A real shame if you ask me. Currently, there is no enterprise class linux with 
> a KDE desktop, while I personally prefer KDE for business desktops.
> 
> I do think you will be able to upgrade to 10.04 next year because upgrades 
> between LTS releases are supported.
> 
As it is not much is done about KDE 3.5 in terms of upgrades, I have 
just hit the first "this will not be fixed"-problem  . Since some days 
you can no longer connect to Yahoo Messenger from Kopete (can be avoided 
by installing Pidgin I guess) and the message is "it is working in KDE4 
and will not be fixed in KDE 3.5"

I think the time to move has come, I am using the Beta of Karmic 9.10 in 
a virtualbox and it is so far rather problem free.