Staying with Hardy

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 17:28 -0600, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> >> David Kuntadi wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Neil Winchurst <barnaby at drofle.com> 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?
> >>>
> >>> You could stay with Hardy (LTS) for 3 years:
> >>>
> >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
> >>
> >> Except Kubuntu wasn't an LTS, and the KDE packages reach end-of-life at 18
> >> months.
> >> --
> >> derek
> >
> > I have been sticking with 8.04 because I don't like kde 4 much.
> > Problem is that most of 8.04, the under parts (libs), are getting old
> > and don't work well with really up to date software like from an SVN.
> > Things are moving. KDE 3 -> KDE 4, Python 2 to Python 3, Ext 3 to Ext
> > 4, Grub 1 to Grub 2, VLC to VLC 1.? and LOTS of others like; Blender
> > 3d 2.5, Inkscape  .47 (will this be in 9.10) and more. Thus, I think I
> > will at last be forced to upgrade.
> 
> I'm running Jaunty with KDE 3.5 and it works quite well.  check out
> http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/ for instructions on using 3.5 with
> Hardy and Jaunty.
> 
> I believe that the intention is to support Karmic as well.  I'm now
> using 4.3 at work and 3.5 at home, but I may finally upgrade to 4.x
> when Karmic is released.

Once you dink around with the settings, you can hardly tell the
difference. I haven't clicked on that peanut in ages. It's like oatmeal
in the morning, ...it's just there. <chortles> Ric