Timothy R. Butler wrote: > Hi Mike, > > KDE 3.0 is in RC1, and I can't imagine rushing a distro to market not > > waiting for it. > > That's what I was thinking. I remember when KDE 2.0 came out it was so much > nicer once I got a version of my then current distro (SuSE) that came with > KDE 2 rather than having my manual upgrades to KDE 2.0 installed (since > numerous applications didn't work right, and things weren't as nice and > optimized, IMO). > It would be ashame that we would have to wait for MDK 8.3 in September (or > somewhere around there), to finally get KDE 3.0 installed with Mandrake 8.3... > > As someone on another list I'm on put it - "Hey not every body wants to do > a 110 Mb download and then spend a weekend sorting things out."
I would like Mandrake 8.2 to be the "perfected" version of 8.0 / 8.1, and would rather not have very much in the way of new stuff that might cause problems. I was not successful in installing Mandrake 8.0, and only partially successful with 8.1. The advantanges of having a very stable 8.2 would be that I can replace my Mandrake 7.2 installations (hopefully) with something that is just as stable, but uses the things (which I won't state correctly) like rpms beyond version 3, and glibc (2?), and whatever else it takes so that I can successfully use current rpms to upgrade software. Then, hopefully, ugrading from, for example kde 2.2.1 or whatever to 3.0 would be more straightforward. I just don't want my desires drowned out by people clamoring for kde 3.0. Mandrake need to strike a balance. "Traditionally", the .2 release has been much better (more stable, reliable, something) than the .0 or .1 release. At least, this is what I found with 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2 -- based on my experiences with 8.0 and 8.1, there is certainly room for 8.2 to be "better". Randy Kramer
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