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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Aug 2007 19:48 UTC, submitted by diegocg

The KDE project has delayed the release of KDE 4.0 by two months. "We, The Release Team, hereby announce that we are extending the KDE 4.0.0 schedule 2 months by inserting an extra 2 Betas, as follows: September 24: Beta3. October 22: Beta4. November 19: Total Release Freeze. November 21: RC1. December 5: RC2. December 20: 4.0.0 tagged. We feel that there are crucial elements of the release that need more development time. The feature freeze (less exemptions) remains in effect."

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Prediction

by sbergman27 on Fri 31st Aug 2007 20:00 UTC

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2005-07-24

KDE 4.0 will not be released until summer 2008.

Just wanted to get that in early.

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RE: Prediction

by Thom_Holwerda on Fri 31st Aug 2007 20:15 in reply to "Prediction"

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2005-06-29

Interestingly, when I wrote my two editorials on the future of GNOME and KDE, I already predicted that the KDE guys would never be able to release KDE 4.0 in 2007. I was almost crucified for saying it - by people here on OSNews, but also by people within the KDE community.

http://www4.osnews.com/story/16783/Has_the_Desktop_Linux_Bubble_Bur...
http://www4.osnews.com/story/16802/On_Favouritism_Apologies_and_Bla...

And look where we are now. It's not that I mind KDE 4.0 got delayed - seriously, I prefer delays over a crappy product. What bothers me is that people went all mental when I predicted these delays.

Anyway, Aaron, I know you read OSNews, so how about this [1] ? It's getting interesting now .

[1] http://www4.osnews.com/thread?249710

Edited 2007-08-31 20:16 UTC

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RE[2]: Prediction

by aseigo on Fri 31st Aug 2007 20:22 in reply to "RE: Prediction"

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2005-07-06

i know, it's going to be a photo finish! =)

the tagging date has been tentatively moved back two weeks to dec 6, though, so we have a proper chance of it getting out in december.

whee!

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RE[2]: Prediction

by smitty on Sat 1st Sep 2007 03:32 in reply to "RE: Prediction"

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2005-10-13

Interestingly, when I wrote my two editorials on the future of GNOME and KDE, I already predicted that the KDE guys would never be able to release KDE 4.0 in 2007. I was almost crucified for saying it - by people here on OSNews, but also by people within the KDE community.
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And look where we are now.

As I recall, you were predicting it would be 4Q 2008, with a decent chance of slipping into 2009, which is quite a bit later than the delayed Dec. 2007 launch. Still, your date is probably close to when 4.1 will come out and everything will be finished up, as it sounds like 4.0 is going to be without quite a bit of stuff.

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RE: Prediction

by diegocg on Fri 31st Aug 2007 20:27 in reply to "Prediction"

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2005-07-08

KDE 4.0 will not be released until summer 2008.

And we should care about your predictions because...?

Me, I say that the two months delay is enought to get KDE 4.0.0 out. Making random guesses is free anyway!

Edited 2007-08-31 20:29

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RE[2]: Prediction

by sbergman27 on Sat 1st Sep 2007 03:01 in reply to "RE: Prediction"

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2005-07-24

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And we should care about your predictions because...?

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You shouldn't. It's mainly important to me. That's why I kept it short. ;-)

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RE: Prediction

by butters on Fri 31st Aug 2007 22:45 in reply to "Prediction"

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2005-07-08

KDE 4.0 will not be released until summer 2008.

That's a losing bet. A better prediction would be whether or not a KDE4 release makes it into the spring 2008 distributions such as Kubuntu Hardy Heron or Fedora 9 by default.

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RE[2]: Prediction

by robertknight on Fri 31st Aug 2007 23:05 in reply to "RE: Prediction"

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2007-01-28

> or not a KDE4 release makes it into the
> spring 2008 distributions such as
> Kubuntu Hardy Heron or Fedora 9 by default.

Kubuntu HH is a long term support release, so KDE 4 is not planned to be the default desktop on the grounds that it is not expected to be sufficiently mature. Kubuntu HH users will of course be able to get KDE 4 applications I'm sure.

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RE[2]: Prediction

by sbergman27 on Sat 1st Sep 2007 03:08 in reply to "RE: Prediction"

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2005-07-24

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That's a losing bet.
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We'll see. It's just a feeling that I have. We can revisit the issue next June or whenever they actually release.

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RE: Prediction

by kolmyo on Sat 1st Sep 2007 08:05 in reply to "Prediction"

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2005-07-11

And you base that on what? A hunch? Well, then, wanna bet?

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RE: Prediction

by superstoned on Sat 1st Sep 2007 10:25 in reply to "Prediction"

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2005-07-07

It's pretty unlikely we won't have a release until summer 2008, with the release event planning and all - that makes it pretty hard to delay beyond the new date. Actually, we can't and won't.

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My Predictions

by antwarrior on Mon 3rd Sep 2007 05:16 in reply to "Prediction"

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2006-02-11

This is the only thread that anyone will post two for the next week. KDE4.0 is on every ones mind

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