On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:20:12PM +0000, Joe Simon wrote: > I have read many messages on this cooker list saying that KDE3.0 is not a > stable and production release. > Isn't the KDE3.0 on ftp.kde.org the final release of KDE3.0? It's not a > beta is it?
I think they mean that the Mandrake RPMS are not stable/production quality. > Maybe I do not understand this correctly. Isn't KDE3.0 supposed to be more > stable than KDE2 since it is built on top of it and is an improvement over > KDE2? Well it is a .0 release. They tend to have issues especially when it comes to KDE. > And since KDE3.0 is the final release why would you want to run both kde2 > and 3 side by side. To me I just want to upgrade. Because not all applications run friendly under KDE3 yet. Same reason why lots of people kept KDE1 around for a while after KDE2 came out. > The installation of the rpm�s places everything in /opt and leaves kde2. > That is not an upgrade. That's because KDE3 is not ready to replace KDE2... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
