Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Jan 2009 18:41 UTC
The release of KDE 4.0 was not a smooth one, and left a number of users a bit disgruntled. Still, the release showed so much potential that it was oozing out of every pixel. KDE 4.1 improved significantly in many areas of concern, but it wasn't yet ready for everyone. With today's release of KDE 4.2, the KDE4 vision is ready to face not only developers and enthusiasts, but every users. We have taken a look at the release candidate for KDE 4.2, and we have a short interview with KDE's Aaron Seigo.
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Kernel 2.6.0 anyone? And a lot more .0 releases.
The problem are not .0 releases that have a lot of problems, but rather that "normal" users get these by their distributions -- why that is the case would need some further investigation.
I also do not like PulseAudio and think it should rather be an option than the default right now as I have personally no gains though something that worked for a few years makes problems here.
You could say 4.0 falls in the same category and that might be true (I did not use 4.0 myself I sticked to 3.5.X) the difference is that with 4.2 KDE 4 is for me perfectly useable while that is not the case for PulseAudio that is "forced" upon me and as it appears its use cases are hardly of interest for me (sound over network, per app sound ...).
So to conclude this: Distributors have a great responsibility. They are the direct link between FOSS projects and its users. So they should choose wisely. For that there has to be good communication between distributors and developers.
Edited 2009-01-28 11:18 UTC