Kubuntu LTS and KDE4

Kubuntu LTS and KDE4

Posted Dec 30, 2007 15:28 UTC (Sun) by Thue (subscriber, #14277)
In reply to: Kubuntu LTS and KDE4 by stock
Parent article: Kubuntu LTS and KDE4

It should be known that the top-tier US Software Corporations, who today apparently need to control the directions in which the Linux Desktop development is heading, have put KDE on their wanted for destruction target list long time ago

That sounds too much as a conspiracy theory. As long as the KDE project don't commit to maintain their last stable branch for 3 years, I can understand that distros do not want to make long term releases based on it.

So in my view the main responsibility for the absense of LTS Kubuntu is the KDE project, who can hardly be accused of being in a conspiracy against itself :P.

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Point is, of course, that the excuse by Canonical to not support KDE 
because they won't maintain it for 3 years is rather lame. Novell will 
have an Enterprise Desktop supporting KDE 3.5.8 until 2011, so why can't 
Canonical? The KDE project will support KDE 3.5.x for quite a while still, 
we're gonna see a 3.5.9 release soon, and it will even have new 
features...