/me++
Or in a bit longer words, today is my birthday and I got a nice present from Debian – a release sent from Samoa.
For all the KDE/Debian users, this is also the beginning of something special: Pushing KDE4 slowly to unstable and testing/squeeze.
If you are in the group of KDE-users-against-change, then please stay with the just released version of Debian, Debian Lenny, as this is where KDE3 desktop will be. From Debian unstable, it will dissapear soon.
Happy birthday Sune!
On further note: Hooray! I’ll finally be able to migrate back to unstable :)
Happy Birthday! :)
Consider delaying this transition. Curren kde4 is not only buggy and lack features but is also *very* slow on somewhat older (4-5yrs.) machines on which all other applications (gtk2, qt3 and even win) still work well. This will force me and others in similar situation to switch to some other DE. :-/
Why don’t you conduct a poll at kde4.debian.net a see what the users want?
@Vedran – please stay with lenny if you want kde3.
It doesn’t matter what the users want if no developer want to support it.
And I stopped caring about kde3 more than 6 months ago.
@Sune: I never use stable on my desktop. Hopefully aptitude hold will work. Just don’t make some packages depend on kde4 if it really don’t require it.
@Vedran: KDE 4 works fine on the EeePC which has more or less (more likely less) power than a 5 years old PC. What’s not ready are the graphic drivers (my Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB flies with vesa driver but is dramatically slow with radeon :| ). I hope they will be ready at the time Squeeze is released (I think so).
I was expecting this… I’m going to stick with lenny, until KDE 4 hits testing. When it does, I’ll surely switch. I used KDE 4.2 and I liked it, but felt sluggish in my system (512mb of ram and 1.6ghz of cpu, with composite turned off), so KDE 4 is still eating more resources than KDE3. I hope that when it hits testing this is no longer true, and I can use it in my old laptop, hopefully, even with composite turned on :). KDE 4 is a huge improvement over 3, when it’s completely finished (there’s still a lot of stuff to do)