On Fri June 20 2008 17:16:12 Kevin Kofler wrote:
FYI, Kubuntu is dropping KDE 3 support in Intrepid Ibex, which will
be
released at about the same time as Fedora 10.
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuIntrepidVersion
Their setup will be almost exactly as it is now in Fedora 9 (and will be in
Fedora 10 too): no more KDE 3 desktop and core KDE 3 modules, only KDE 3
libraries and the KDE 3 versions of (mostly third-party) applications not
yet ported to KDE 4.
So the distro you're switching to isn't really doing much different from
the one you're escaping from, the only difference is that they're doing
things one release later, with the intermediary solution of
parallel-installable KDE 3 and 4 in Hardy Heron, which we skipped because
it would have been a lot of work for something which would probably have
been thrown out one or two releases later (in Kubuntu, that solution is
only lasting for a single release!).
The difference, Kevin, is that Kubuntu shipped KDE 4.x a month before
Fedora and will support KDE 3.5 nine months after Fedora ends support.
Kubuntu is providing people with three times the transition period that
Fedora is offering. Debian will probably go even further.
To you that may not seem much different. To people who rely on F/LOSS
for office work and software development, that's a major difference.
--Mike Bird