Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Jan 2008 18:22 UTC
KDE Ars reviews KDE 4.0.0: "KDE 4.0 was officially released last week after extensive development. The long-awaited 4.0 release ushers in a new era for the popular open-source desktop environment and adds many intriguing new features and technologies. Unfortunately, the release comes with almost as many new bugs as it does features, and there is much work to be done before it sparkles like the 3.5.x series." They were also at the KDE 4.0 release event.
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RE[2]: Comments Unfair
by Soulbender on Tue 22nd Jan 2008 05:55 UTC in reply to "RE: Comments Unfair"
Soulbender
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2005-08-18

Funds or not, the 4.0.0 indicates to a user that this is the fourth major revision and it's ready for release


Users don't install KDE, they install a distro. Users dont really care if it's called 4.0, 4.1 or 9 & 1/2 weeks.

they are deceiving their users and hiding behind the "we told everyone it's not ready for production use" excuse.


Sorry, it's not deceptive. If they had told everyone this would be an awesome, mindblowing release and they changed it at the last moment, yes, that would have been. However, they've been saying from the start it's not a full-fledged update but mainly a framework update.
Thankfully most ordinary users aren't stupid enough to read too much into version numbers.

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