Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-31 Thread Ely Levy
AFAIK there is very little chance for redhat to release 7.3 this month. my guess is that redhat is waiting for KDE 3 official release and that gnome 2 beta would come with the full release. btw if you look at rawhide you see redhat supports kde much more than they support GNOME guys. also mozilla

Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > yes, gnome and kde are going to be ported. But I have been looking for that > moment for a long time, here is what I think: > > kde guys do the massive update all together, which is nice for high versions, > but for low versions I like the gnome polic

Improved: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-28 Thread Eli Marmor
Following Hetz's corrections, an improved "version" of the forecasts is following (BTW: sorry for mentioning RH8 instead of 7.3; actually, I knew that 8.0 was delayed and that they decided to call the soon version "7.3", but it "escaped" of my memory... As to other notes of him, some of them just

Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-28 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Friday 29 March 2002 04:38, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Really? look at your update next time - hint, it won't be only evolution > RPM, it will be few more parts... really, so you say gnome sucks as much as kde? ;) > But you do when you're comparing the updates, Diego.. > As for code modifications

Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> I mean, for updating just my browser (bad example...) > For updating my mail client from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 I will have to d/l kdelibs, > libqt3, and (this was the status in kde 2.2 sometimes) also kde base. on > gnome programs just the mail. well, hopefully they will not "force you" to > update the

Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-28 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Friday 29 March 2002 03:54, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: >> (sniped a lot of stuff I wrote) > Huh? I mean, for updating just my browser (bad example...) For updating my mail client from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 I will have to d/l kdelibs, libqt3, and (this was the status in kde 2.2 sometimes) also kde base.

Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Thursday 28 March 2002 21:11, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > yes, gnome and kde are going to be ported. But I have been looking for that > moment for a long time, here is what I think: > > kde guys do the massive update all together, which is nice for high > versions, but for low versions I like the

Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-28 Thread Diego Iastrubni
yes, gnome and kde are going to be ported. But I have been looking for that moment for a long time, here is what I think: kde guys do the massive update all together, which is nice for high versions, but for low versions I like the gnome policy of: update when you please, what way you can upda

Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Eli, Hag sam-eh-ach ;) > KDE 3.0: > > Beginning of April, +- 1 week. 3.0 final has been tagged - I think monday/tuesday there will be binary packages available. > GNOME 2.0: > == > Expected to May 1, according to the schedule. > A big loss for GNOME, which is going to miss the

Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Didn't they teach you that Israel is non-borring place? (I know - off-topic).. Hetz On Wednesday 27 March 2002 16:47, Eli Marmor wrote: > P.S. > > Another event that is easy to guess, without having to be a prophet, is > a war. My guess: beginning of May. +- 3 weeks. Who vs. who? Ummm... > I'm

Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-27 Thread Eli Marmor
P.S. Another event that is easy to guess, without having to be a prophet, is a war. My guess: beginning of May. +- 3 weeks. Who vs. who? Ummm... I'm not sure... U.S vs. Iraq? Iraq vs. Israel? Israel vs. Palestinians? Palestinians vs. U.S? (sorry for being a little off-topic...) -- Eli Mar

Re: An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-27 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 16:56, Eli Marmor wrote: > Contrary to proprietary software, OSS is composed of many projects that > are developed in parallel, and each has its own major releases, usually > once per 2 or even 3 years. If you take the 10-15 key OSS projects, and > their major announcements a

An Exciting Month is Expected for Us!

2002-03-27 Thread Eli Marmor
April 2002 is going to be a hot month for Linux. Once per a year or two there is a time crowded with announcements, and I try to guess them and their exact time. I'll repeat it here. Contrary to research companies (such as Gartner, IDC) I will not use general forecasts ("new versions of Linux desk