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Re: [LUG] debian code names

 

On 16/07/10 15:15, Neil Williams wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:45:21 +0100
David Bell<grimpen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

On Friday 16 July 2010 07:38:16 Simon Waters wrote:

Six isn't far off, and is called Squeeze. It already has fewer release
critical bugs than the current stable release (Lenny), or did when I
last looked anyway.

Will we still have the option of installing KDE3 in "Squeeze"?

NO.

If your apt sources specify 'stable', then your system will be upgraded
to KDE4 as soon as you do your first 'apt-get upgrade' after the
Squeeze release - or as soon as you try to install any new KDE utility.
There are no core KDE 3 applications in Squeeze and any third-party KDE
stuff needs to work with KDE4 or it will be removed before Squeeze is
released. (AFAICT this step has already been accomplished.)

If you want to stay on KDE3 your only choice is Lenny (and changing
your apt sources to specify 'lenny') but be aware that as soon as
Squeeze is released, Lenny becomes oldstable and will disappear once
Debian starts the move to the release after Squeeze. (The first action
in preparing for a new Debian release is the removal of all packages
from oldstable - this has already been done for Squeeze, so there are
now no packages on the mirrors for Etch.)



I guess it's a good time to maybe start looking at KDE4 in a virtual machine or on another machine.

What I'm worried about is if when Gnome 3 comes out that I'll end up not liking it, I guess though XFCE is reasonably close to Gnome and probably a whole lot quicker on my machine too.

Saying that I could take another look at KDE4, I wasn't so keen on it before but maybe I should try it on something other than Kubuntu (maybe something a bit more polished, could anyone suggest a well polished KDE4 distro to try?).

Rob

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