Fedora 9 and the road to KDE4 (Red Hat Magazine)

It was a final release, in the sense of a .0.0 release. Just like 
other .0.0 releases like kernel 2.6.0.0, gnome 2.0.0, KDE 2.0.0/3.0.0 
etcetera. Nothing weird about that. Sure, it had issues, some parts were 
better than other parts (Plasma wasn't very well fleshed out, but eg KDE 
Edu, KDE Graphics, KDE Base and KDE Games were pretty ready).

We needed to do a release because there were many issues in underlying 
systems like X.org, drivers and even GTK. As long as we didn't release, 
they were not going to be fixed (we had the Alpha's, Beta's and RC's - but 
no fixes). Actually that's just one of the reasons, but you probably get 
the point: we thought about it.

And I must say I find it insulting to hear many ppl suggest otherwise.

Either way, Suse is going to release with KDE 4.0.4 (with many of their 
fixes) and, like fedora, will probably offer 4.1 as soon as possible. 4.1 
re-introduces much which was lost, if not most, and imho represents the 
bright future for the Free Desktop!

(have a look: nowwhatthe.blogspot.com)