Derrick:
what you say is correct. As a user of both YDL and Ubuntu I need to
point out that the information you provide on Ubuntu is incorrect.
Currently Ubuntu uses the following:
Kernel 2.6.15
Gnome 2.14
KDE 4.3.5
X.org 7.0
and Firefox 1.5
G++
On 28-Jun-06, at 12:35 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:
Hi Ted:
You are probably very well aware how tricky your question is. One
way to interpret your question is that you expect TSS to provide
the latest available KDE environment? By the way, isn't that the
job of the KDE folks themselves? Remember that KDE, like many
other Linux projects are comprised of volunteers. TSS is a
commercial entity.
Some projects are better organized and current than others,
likewise for commercial entities. Where they differ is at what
point the commercial entities decide to move ahead in choosing what
will go into their respective commercial products and why. Each
commercial company makes their own decisions regarding how much
longer they will wait for a certain project to be complete as a
version. Occasionally a project will be moving to a newer version
just at or after a point where a company had to decide to move and
use what was already available as their product's usefulness in the
market place is recognized as maximal within a certain time frame.
Each company maximizes the utility of their product for a certain
market place. It may be that users of that product may also see
value in a company production, but usually these users (you and I)
have different values of what that value is than the company or
other corporate associates are even aware of. Our own
contribution, or wrinkle to the above are our choices regarding
what we as individuals want. If we want something, fortunately we
can create or get it ourselves.
Exploring this is interesting because it can help highlight the
value TSS or any other commercial entity provides in comparison to
Debian and others.
Let's look at some distributions, ok?
Linux kernel KDE Gnome X.org
Firefox and Thunderbird
YDL 4.1 2.6.15-rc5 3.4.2 2.10
6.8.2 1.5 1.5
Debian 3.1 2.6.8 3.3
2.8 1.0.4 1.0.2
Ubuntu They are built upon Debian (we can consider this
the same for them).
I provided the information regarding Ubuntu and Debian because they
are known to users of this list as well. You could research beyond
this with commercial vendors and others but I believe it is
enough. It is true that one can install, and modify the standard
package provided to whatever is current, but the dirty secret is
that packages are provided so that they work together. I rather
have advanced packages which work together already at boot, thank
you. I'll mix and match on my own from that point.
Maybe the link here can help:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/showcase/customers/
Choose any one of the icons, and remember to take a look at Indi --
for Individuals.
Whatever you decide, you can always participate here.
Good Luck...
On Jun 28, 2006, at 8:03 AM, Ted Goranson wrote:
In an upcoming shift of machines, I am considering putting YDL 4.
1 on my 1G 17" PowerBook G4.
I have 4.0 on my Pismo and am discouraged about how old KDE is and
that yum never touches something active.
This message is about YDL.net. A couple years ago when I asked,
folks said it wasn't worth much.
Is it now? If I pay the money, will it be a reliable, robust and
continuously rich upgrade/update source for a desktop KDE?
Best, Ted
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Ted Goranson
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