Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Mar 2008 10:04 UTC, submitted by AdamW
As the latest Mandriva release, 2008 Spring, reaches release candidate stage, the What's Coming in Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring page on the Mandriva Wiki is available, providing a summary of all the major new features arriving in the forthcoming release, along with screenshots. New versions of KDE 3, KDE 4, GNOME and XFCE, Asus Eee PC compatibility, PulseAudio, improvements to the Mandriva configuration tools and some new applications all make the list.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Same reason. That is not an approach that is likely to work trouble-free for everyone, which is what we want in Mandriva.
I actually think quite a lot of people will choose to use Mandriva 2008 Spring exactly because of this: they know that KDE 4 is not really ready for many people yet, so they want to go with a distro that is sticking with KDE 3 until KDE 4 is truly ready. I remember back when we shipped GNOME 2.0 as default as soon as it came out, we got a lot of stick for that. Time will tell, anyway. 
Member since:2005-07-07
Same reason. That is not an approach that is likely to work trouble-free for everyone, which is what we want in Mandriva.
I actually think quite a lot of people will choose to use Mandriva 2008 Spring exactly because of this: they know that KDE 4 is not really ready for many people yet, so they want to go with a distro that is sticking with KDE 3 until KDE 4 is truly ready. I remember back when we shipped GNOME 2.0 as default as soon as it came out, we got a lot of stick for that. Time will tell, anyway.
I actually think quite a lot of people will choose to use Mandriva 2008 Spring exactly because of this: they know that KDE 4 is not really ready for many people yet, so they want to go with a distro that is sticking with KDE 3 until KDE 4 is truly ready. I remember back when we shipped GNOME 2.0 as default as soon as it came out, we got a lot of stick for that. Time will tell, anyway.
i can see where your coming from but if people want " stability" they should stick to Windows, sometimes you need to take a risk an this is one of those that Mandriva seems scared of doing, many people use Ubuntu/Fedora now, i ask again why didnt Mandriva take the plunge an go with using KDE4 as default by using a few KDE3 libraries an let the user be able to upgrade to KDE4.1.0 within 2008.1 when it shipped? i still think it could of shipped a firefox3 release candidate in the final or the RC1 or 2 of Mandriva2008.1 an just update the users to the final when it was released.
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2005-07-07
fair enough but how many people do you expect will use Mandriva2008.1 over fedora having KDE4.0.2 or 4.0.3 being the default, people wanna get used to KDE4 before 4.1 gets out, which makes me ask another Question, since fedora9 wil ship 4.0.x as default an when 4.1 is out you will be able to install 4.1 over 4.0.x why didnt Mandriva opt to do it that way? now people will have to get Mandriva2009 for that,