kde 3.5.8 for fc6?

[John Summerfield]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Olaf Mueller wrote:
>> Strong wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:53:39 +0200 Olaf Mueller
>>> <daily-planet at istari.de> wrote:
>>>> But using fedora for a desktop is laborious, that's my opinion.
>>>> I will have a look at the next upcoming linux desktop with long life
>>>> support. That means 3 years of silence, marvellous.
>>> I ponder the same problem. Is there any idea on what will the linux
>>> be?
>> The next kubuntu version, I belief April 2008, with long term support
>> for desktop, that mean 3 years.
>> It's a shame cause of fc6 is here running very stable as my desktop. It
>> recognizes all my hardware and everything performes just fine.
>>
>>
>> regards
>> Olaf
>>
> Here's my 2 cents.  Fedora is great for a desktop.  Yes, it /does/ have 
> a shorter cycle than most.  But that's the price of bleeding edge.
> 
> However, I've argued with myself over this for a while and, while I like 
> Kubuntu (my Mom uses it), I am sold on Gentoo.  No upgrade cycle is 
> needed, since you upgrade packages as you want/need.  Granted the one 
> downside is you have to compile everything, but, for me, that's a small 
> price to pay for no upgrade cycle.

Debian testing (or even SID) is like that.

I tried Gentoo a while go, and it didn't work well for me. I had build 
dependancy loop problems (having used pine for years, I was curious 
about cone) that took too long (months) to resolve. Cone wasn't the only 
package, the system wasn't really useful.

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