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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Member since:2005-09-06
Member since:2006-01-02
How delayed was Vista, exactly? They promised a 2 year release and they hit a 2.5 year release if you consider that work was started in early 2005. You don't remember some other OSes released in that timeframe, like 2003 SP1/XP x64 (with a lot of work to support a new architecture)? You don't remember XP SP2, which was a pretty extensive modification that came out in that time frame?
Let's leave this thread to die because it's far more important to consider the good work done by the KDE devs who seem to be defining a clean and extensible architecture for the future of the linux desktop. Marketing and release-planning foibles of Microsoft are simply not pertinent to this discussion.
Member since:2005-07-06
How delayed was Vista, exactly? They promised a 2 year release and they hit a 2.5 year release if you consider that work was started in early 2005.
Dude. We had technology previews of Longhorn in 2003, and Microsoft was talking about the thing for four years.
However, I'd prefer to leave this to die because that's what I'd call hype.
Member since:2007-03-20
Member since:2005-08-18
"Don't tell me u are comparing a window manager to the whole operating system.... "
Because, you know, KDE is just a window manager. It is in no way an entire framework for a desktop environment. No. That's just what they want you to beleive. kwin, that's all there is.
"way to go dude, u kick some major ass"
Dude, where's my car?
"don't they have mental institutes for guys like u in Denmark???? "
Institutes? Don't you mean institutions? Duuuuuude.
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2005-10-02
Well, it's not as bad as any of the delays Microsoft has given us. A two months delay is what we in Denmark call "planned delay" or "expected delay".
If KDE4 becomes as delayed as Vista then we can talk about poor management. A 2 months delay is pretty well done for a project this size. Better than 4 years late