On Saturday 08 September 2001 00:43, you wrote: > The constantly changing APIs/libraries. > > Moving from mdk7.2 to 8.0 required a complete reinstall to make > sure no "ghosts from the past" remain to cause problems. This > is because massive amounts of upgraded libraries were introduced, > and many directories were moved. As we have seen so many threads > here on this list, upgrading a mdk7.2 system in these 8.0 days > requires compiling SRPMs, and many times, they won't work because > of the aforementioned upgraded libraries and moved directories. > > Just recently, I upgraded from KDE 2.1.1 to 2.2. *Definitely* > not something that non-geeks would ever contemplate or be able > to do. Noone could contemplate it on a dial-up line. > > Take for example my wife. She's been using the same Win98 box > with Office97 for 3 years. The only upgrade has been to IE5.5. > She *likes* it that way. Could she be a happy, unchanging linux > desktop user for 3 years from 1998? Don't think so. > > Could she be a happy linux desktop user for the 3 years starting > now? NO. "Soon", qt3 will be released. Then KDE3 will be re- > leased. Then will RPMs (or even SRPMs) created for KDE3 run on > her 2.2. Of course not, since mdk can't create *RPMs of new > programs for old releases, even the last one, since the new programs > use so many new features. > > Only when you can install a new RPM on a 3yo kernel/desktop will > linux be ready for the mass market desktop. > > Comments? Windows XP is intended to "Replace" Win9x Family, soon all win9x applications will be a ghost from the past. "DOS" its gone... no more support, its a fact of life. Things change so quickly that is really hard to keep up with all of them. And Linux will soon replace many desktops... that also is a fact! ;-) sk
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