upgrade 8.04 -> 9.04+kde3: how?

[Mark Greenwood]

On Sunday 14 Jun 2009 15:15:31 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I would be willing to bet that baring unforeseen catastrophes KDE 3.x
> > will still run twenty years from now. I have one old laptop that still
> > has DOS 6.2/Windows 3.1 and works just great. My old TRS80, TI-99-4A and
> > CoCo still work also.
> >
> 
> You should rather bet that there will be unforeseen catastrophes.
> Engineers count on known unknowns and on unknown unknowns. KDE 3 is
> unmaintained, and will be as dangerous and useless as Windows 3.1 is
> today. Your Win 3.1 machine has no web browser, does not play mp3 or
> divx files, does not run Solidworks, and does not run Office.
> 
> 
That all depends on what you use it for. I still have a machine running KDE3.5 and it will probably always do so. I built it for a purpose and it does that purpose as well today as it did the day I built it. Indeed, I've tried putting newer releases on it and none of them work as well. If it ain't broke, etc etc... If people absolutely must have the latest stuff then they have to expect that the things they like about the old stuff might disappear or stop working. Look at the options and make a decision... if you make the decision to upgrade, don't go complaining about it.

(I also have a machine running Windows 98, for exactly the same reasons).

Mark