Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that

[Dotan Cohen]

On 25 February 2010 11:48, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Those who have been around long enough remember the discussion around
> the last Long Term Support release. Ubuntu 8.04 is LTS whereas Kubuntu
> 8.04 is not, the difference being that it was deemed unsupportable to
> have an LTS with KDE 3.5 as base when KDE 4 was "almost released".
>
> Now we see the coming release of 10.04 going to be Kubuntu LTS. I assume
> with KDE SC 4.4 as "base" and from what I see of those trying it out at
> the moment there are some really major headaches with Akonadi, Nepomuk
> and KDE-PIM.
>
> So my query is: is it the right time to go LTS? There will have to be
> some really good upgrade "scripts" for users of KDE-PIM with
> distributionslists, many resources etc in order for them to make the
> proper choices. As I understand it... I am just a fairly techie user.
> Would it maybe be better to wait for SC 4.5 with, hopefully, more of
> those issues fixed?

There is some functionality loss with some KDE components, namely
Kaddressbook, but LTS refers to _maintainability_ (and to a lesser
degree stability as well), but not to features. By that standard, KDE
4.4 is fine for an LTS release.


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