On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:48, Cameron Patrick wrote: > There were pretty major changes between KDE 3 and KDE 3.1. As a Debian
Anyone who wants to can establish their own repository for back-ported KDE packages. KDE has a good history of having people do that, at times there have been 3 or more back-port repositories of KDE. Just because something isn't in the main Debian distribution doesn't mean you can't use it! As long as a reasonably recent version of KDE is in stable you won't have any big problems as all the dependencies will be installed. > user, I'd be rather miffed if a new version of KDE came out within a > week of sarge being released ... on the other hand, if sarge is to be > frozen in a couple of months' time, it seems unlikely that KDE 3.2 will > be able to make it in. *grumble* :( Are there any big features you expect from KDE 3.2? If given a choice between a KDE release that's stable, solid, and reliable and a bleeding edge release that gives SEGV's on critical programs such as Konsole and has font problems I would choose the stable release every time. KDE 1.x was quite usable, while many of the beta releases in the 2.x and early 3.x series weren't... -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
