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From: Dotan Cohen on 22 Apr 2010 10:30
> Unfortunately, the goals of always having the latest KDE and a stable distro
> are not compatible.
>

Not necessarily. KDE has a regular release schedule, with a point
release about once a month. I would consider a distro that included
the latest point releases stable in the sense of no (or few) beta
software.


> Another thing you could consider: run testing/unstable in a virtual
> machine or a chroot on your lenny system. Beware, though, that even in
> unstable the upload of major packages can be delayed.
>

I have tested KDE in a VM in the past, it doesn't work out. I need to
use it for everyday work.


> Have you asked other KDE contributors about their setups?
>

Yes, there is a lot of favour towards Mandriva and Suse. Kubuntu with
Project Timelord is also being mentioned. If I jump ship from a Debian
based distro, it will likely be to Suse.


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From: Liam O'Toole on 22 Apr 2010 11:10
On 2010-04-22, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have you asked other KDE contributors about their setups?
>>
>
> Yes, there is a lot of favour towards Mandriva and Suse. Kubuntu with
> Project Timelord is also being mentioned. If I jump ship from a Debian
> based distro, it will likely be to Suse.

Yes, you are likely to have a more contemporary KDE experience with
opensuse, and are more likely to find backported packages when you need
them.

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From: Camaleón on 22 Apr 2010 11:10
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:26:07 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

>> Unfortunately, the goals of always having the latest KDE and a stable
>> distro are not compatible.
>>
>>
> Not necessarily. KDE has a regular release schedule, with a point
> release about once a month. I would consider a distro that included the
> latest point releases stable in the sense of no (or few) beta software.

It's hard for distributions to include the latest KDE SC available *and*
deliver it as "stable". Rolling distros (such Arch Linux), which are
always up-to-date, may fit better into this schema.

(...)

>> Have you asked other KDE contributors about their setups?
>>
>>
> Yes, there is a lot of favour towards Mandriva and Suse. Kubuntu with
> Project Timelord is also being mentioned. If I jump ship from a Debian
> based distro, it will likely be to Suse.

+1 for openSUSE :-)

But remember that openSUSE 11.2 is still including kde 4.3.5 under their
stable KDE repo. KDESC 4.4 is available under factory/testing repo.

Greetings,

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From: Dotan Cohen on 22 Apr 2010 11:20
> It's hard for distributions to include the latest KDE SC available *and*
> deliver it as "stable". Rolling distros (such Arch Linux), which are
> always up-to-date, may fit better into this schema.
>

That is where a third-party repo would come in, such as Backports.
Kubuntu, for all it's flaws, does this quite well. I understand that
so does Suse.


> +1 for openSUSE :-)
>
> But remember that openSUSE 11.2 is still including kde 4.3.5 under their
> stable KDE repo. KDESC 4.4 is available under factory/testing repo.
>

Thanks.

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From: Camaleón on 22 Apr 2010 11:50
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:13:49 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

>> It's hard for distributions to include the latest KDE SC available
>> *and* deliver it as "stable". Rolling distros (such Arch Linux), which
>> are always up-to-date, may fit better into this schema.
>>
>>
> That is where a third-party repo would come in, such as Backports.
> Kubuntu, for all it's flaws, does this quite well. I understand that so
> does Suse.

As per openSUSE, yes, they have the OBS (Build Service) with many
packages up-to-date and available (backported or not) for the current
supported releases *but* remember that packages that fall in there are
not "officialy" supported nor included into security patches (they follow
their own path to solve any issue that can arise).

Anyway, I agree their KDE repos are of very good quality and so very
useful for users.

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