5 years of support..!!??

[Mark Greenwood]

On 1 Mar 2012, at 23:13, Jonathan Riddell wrote:

> On 1 March 2012 22:52, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I subscribe to several RSS feeds and one of them just sent me the following:
>> 
>> "The Kubuntu Community is pleased to announce plans for the 12.04 LTS release of Kubuntu. As approved by the Ubuntu Technical Board on January 9th, 12.04 will be a 5-year long-term support cycle for Kubuntu"
>> 
>> So, 12.04 will be supported for 5 years. This is good news, really good news.
> 
> Thanks for your appreciation.  The Kubuntu contributor community will
> do security updates and major bug fixes for 5 years after the 12.04
> LTS release.  As that announcement also says Kubuntu will carry on
> making releases just the same as we have since we started, with our
> thriving contributor community.
> 

Thank you Jonathan for the quick response. From this I assume that Kubuntu 12.04 will provide bug fixes for KDE 4.8 for 5 years. I do appreciate the effort involved in this,  but it still gives me some questions with reference to Canonical's recent announcement about "pulling the plug" on Kubuntu.

As far as I'm concerned, KDE 4.8 is not finished, There are still serious problems with regards to KDE PIM, and power management on laptops (that didn't exist with KDE 3 - so KDE 4 is a backwards step on a lot of my hardware). So if we install Kubuntu 12.04 do we get updates to KDE 4.9 (and 4.10, 4.11 etc) over those 5 years, or do we need to upgrade to newer releases to get improved functionality?

5 years of support is a very nice carrot, but making my hardware work like it used to in 2008 is a bigger stick. I have the feeling that my systems won't work as well as they did with KDE3 until about 2014… do we have the same commitment from Canonical about that release?

Believe me I don't want to sound like a sceptic, but I have paying clients who are asking me these questions and I cannot give them honest answers.

Mark.


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