On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:25:56 pm Duncan wrote: > Grrr!! I'm a kde guy and kde4 is only /now/, with 4.3, getting to > the late beta stage, where I'd even /begin/ to consider it usable, ... > but they've abandoned the last fully working version, 3.5, to the > point there's serious questions on whether there will be security > updates and the like.
Pfft. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. My experience with upgrading desktop applications has been almost entirely bad. I'm running KDE 3.5 on Fedora 7 for my desktop. The only upgrades I install are for multimedia codecs when I come across a video I can't play. My desktop is behind two firewalls, I run NoScript in my browser, and when I have an application that works for me, I don't mess with it. (Of course, I can only get away with this because I'm running a minority operating system with an excellent security model, hence I'm not a target for every f***ing spyware and malware programmer trying to make a dishonest buck. If I were running Windows, or PHP apps on a webserver, I'd take security upgrades more seriously.) If I could still run Mac OS 6.2 (only with colour, Internet access and multimedia support) you can bet I would be. Well, maybe 6.5. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
