Re: [kde] KDE 4 review

On Sunday 15 June 2008, ziklag wrote:
On Saturday 14 June 2008, Kevin Krammer wrote:

I don't think this would make any difference. Fedora is targeted at a
user group who prefer to trade probability of initial problems with
subsequent fixes over initial perfection with subsequent security only
maintenance. For example they even ship unreleased versions of software
if the actual release is likely to happen within their version's update
cycle (e.g. NetworkManager, Xorg)

I read the release notes. Where did they say: "This is bleeding edge
software. We skipped alpha and beta testing. Sorry, if you've got
problems because you're our guinea pig." ?

Well, I am not a Fedora user, but I guess delivering the most modern software
stack is kind of the Fedora mission statement. If they do not mention in in
their release notes, it is probably somewhere on their website.

What I did read was that they had problems with nvidia, but it was
supposedly fixed. I read that KDE4 was a little rough around the
edges, but was supposed to be usable. I guess non of the alpha
or beta testers actually upgraded fc8-->fc9 or tried to use the
kicker replacement nor the taskbar no kmail. My mistake.

It is quite likely that the majority of Fedora users just wait for the release
and upgrade then, like you did, and do not participate in testing upgrade
paths before that.
But this is getting very offtopic here, you should discuss this on a Fedora
list.

I guess that it is time to switch OSes if Redhat is going to be
misleading and preset an OS release notes which seem to imply
that all's well.

Not sure what Red Hat has to do with all this, their releases and upgrade
paths are always thoroughly tested.

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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