Kubuntu 8.04, KDE 3 and KDE 4 and LTS

[Joe Burgess]

Well assuming that Canonical is not going to LTS the Kubuntu release, 
and I assume only the Ubuntu release will be an LTS.  As for having 3.5 
as an option, I think that is a very good idea.  I know that making it 
an option in the installer might be difficult, but I mean just keeping 
the packages for 3.5 around, and having it be pretty easy to remove the 
KDE4 packages and replace them with 3.5 would be nice.  Of course the 
installer option or even just to different versions of the distro would 
be preferable.  As for the LTS thing, I thought LTS was mostly for 
Servers. Production servers don't generally want to upgrade that often, 
so I thought the whole LTS thing was for servers.  Desktops generally 
want to stay somewhat up to date.

--Joe

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2008, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> This is some sort of poll to see what the people on the list thinks
>> about this.
>>
>> I am very much for keeping KDE 3.5 in Kubuntu 8.04 (yes I know it is not
>> being removed) and make it an LTS release alongside the Ubuntu 8.04.
>> KDE4 can be an option for those who are interested, just as it is now in
>> 7.10
>>
>> what do you think? As I know Jonathan Riddell reads the list we might
>> send a message to him and the other developers this way.
>>
>> Sinclair
> 
> I am very much in favor of it, provided some of the bugs in 3.5.8 or 3.5.9 are 
> alleviated.  As long as the kernel is relatively fixed so us EMC2 users can 
> concentrate on EMC2, and the desktop works too, we'll be very happy campers.
>