On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:20:34 -0600, Dale wrote: > You say they dropped support. I call it dropping the ball. Same thing.
No it's not. One is a bald statement of fact, the other contains a judgement by using negative terminology. > As bad as I hate M$, one thing I can say, they have never to my > knowledge dropped support for a OS unless and until the replacement is > fully functional and stable, as finctional and stable as windoze can > get anyway. At least they don't leave people with a unsupported OS > while they spend a year or two getting the new one ironed out. I don't > think KDE will take that long but winders does. You're comparing apples and oranges. With a paid OS, you are mainly paying for support and security updates, which you still get with a paid Linux distro. > Most reasonable people > agree that KDE should have supported KDE 3 for at least a few more > months. Do you have a citation for that? Preferably one that doesn't define reasonable people as those that think KDE 3.5 should still be developed :) > So, KDE 3 is still not being supported even after all this. Nothing > has changed. Who would have thunk it? Well, very little has changed. Most importantly, KDE 3.5 still works as well as it ever did. It was never gong to be developed any more anyway. As far as Gentoo dropping it from portage is concerned, the fix for that is editing one line of make.conf, which is hardly an onerous task. The KDE 3.5 ebuilds are still maintained, they've just moved to a different repository. This really is a non-issue. -- Neil Bothwick A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
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