Seigo: on introducing new ideas to free software communities

Posted Nov 6, 2013 19:10 UTC (Wed) by alejandronova (guest, #93813)
In reply to: Seigo: on introducing new ideas to free software communities by Del-
Parent article: Seigo: on introducing new ideas to free software communities

I know where those users did go: they escaped from Debian, and I am one of them. Debian used to have a pretty good KDE packaging team back in the KDE 3.5.x days, but today, Sid stays at 4.8, and the only way to install KDE 4.11 is resorting to experimental. You can live safely with Sid, but experimental is a totally diferent matter, and, since you have to mix repositories and remember lots of package exclusions and repository pinnings, a proper KDE install in Debian is painful beyond anything acceptable. So, I settled on Fedora, and haven't touched Debian since the KDE 3.5.x days.

Seigo: on introducing new ideas to free software communities

Posted Nov 7, 2013 8:10 UTC (Thu) by Del- (guest, #72641) [Link]

> I know where those users did go: they escaped from Debian

That makes sense. I am one of those who spent years on Kubuntu. On my way back home now though.

> Sid stays at 4.8

Not anymore, both Sid and testing have been at 4.10.5 for some weeks now. Only grievance I have is that some idiots convinced Debian that KDE was bloated, so I had a non-functional desktop after first install due to lax dependencies. Installing the kde-full package solved everything.