[Discuss] KDE-4.3-RC1 released.

[John Blomfield]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>
> The KDE developers should have learned this lesson with their so-called
> KDE-4.0 release (which was really an alpha).  Because of that incorrect
> release designation, that release got distributed to end users by most 
> Linux
> distributions.  Just like you would expect, those end users were less 
> than
> happy to be testing alpha-quality software and KDE's reputation suffered
> mightily as a result.
I think that this is the most disturbing aspect of KDE's fiasco 4.x 
project.  Having said that the KDE4.2.3  (release??) showed the promise 
of the future and the majority of basic features were stable and worked 
well.  I am looking forward to future releases including 4.3, which I 
will certainly try at some point.  The KDE developers are obviously 
working hard to recover from their broken reputation and I wish them 
well.  They probably need to fire their marketing/publicity manager as 
first step in preparing for the next release.

John

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> Alan
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> Alan W. Irwin
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