Re: [opensuse] Re: Suse 10.3 install - oh dear (rant only)

Carlos E. R. wrote:


The Wednesday 2008-05-21 at 16:11 -0400, Washington Irving wrote:

It says:

"KDE 4.0 is the most recent evolution of KDE. It comes with many
new KDE technologies, but it is less mature than the other desktops."

But on the KDE home page, it says that KDE 4 will be beta this summer.

They say KDE 4.1 will be...

We don't use kde 4.1, we have kde 4.0, and that one is not beta, it is a
released version.

Correct!! What is released 4 IS stable.....NO argument there...not from
me anyway. My complaint is that 4.0 is GROSSLY non-functional, compared
to 3.*. Further, it's NOT a "winner" until it is as functional.

Best,

Fred

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