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I think this release gets a 30 day trial on the test box before I install it on the household machine. I'm worried (maybe unnecessarily) about the stability of KDE 4.

Dave

I won't be installing KDE4 when I install Mandriva Linux 2009.0. I've already upgraded my partner to Mandriva Linux 20090.0 and I installed KDE3.5.10, which is an optional install on Mandriva.

I'm with TA on this, 3.5.10 is just fine by me.

Haven't been able to really give 4.2.1 a spin on Mandriva 09, mostly because I am also finding 3.5.10 so wonderfully usable. Konqueror, however, wants to display most webpages as HTML code...haven't messed with it any to find out the issue.

traceyanne, when you installed KDE3.5.10 on 2009.0, did you get two of everything in the menus? Also, where did you get the time machine to install a release from 18,091 years into the future for your partner? ;~)

There is yet another very heated discussion going on on the Mandriva Forum. I'm still with the opinion on this thread that KDE4.x isn't quite there yet still. I have stuck with 2008.1 apart from on my spare machine. I'll install the betas and RCs for 2009.1 as soon as they appear. I'm sure 4.x will get there in time. It's not an issue with stability though, just that a few things don't work properly still.

Quoting:did you get two of everything in the menus?

Yes and No.

When I first installed on a VM I installed the default install which installed KDE4, then I installed task-kde3, that gave me a KDe 3.5.10 desktop with 2 of everything.

I wiped that install and started again.

This time I insalled a GNOME desktop only ( Iusually install KDE and GNOME, that way I get all the GNOME apps I want as well as the KDE apps), then I installed task-kde3 from the GNOME desktop, and this time I got 1 of everything.

Quoting:where did you get the time machine to install a release from 18,091 years into the future

I'm very good friends with a doctor. In order to do this you need either the powerpack version or Mandriva Free, both of which allow you to choose the desktop to install.

Quoting:I'm very good friends with a doctor.

Heh :-) So, what's Linux like in the 19th millennium?

Ubiquitous, yet still stable and secure.

Windows lasted until the middle of the 23rd century, at which time they had become the operating system of choice for the Grubber Corporation, who equipped their entire fleet of cruise liners with Windows 7700. Microsoft was then sued out of existence, for enabling a malevolent intelligence to propagate itself across 15 human planetary systems, and 249 non human planetary systems, and every Windows equipped computer in the known universe ground to dust and shipped into black hole for good measure, after that Linux equipped systems gained significant market share to about 75-80%, Apples market share remainned fairly static at about 10 to 15%, while several other Free systems rounded out the percentage.

This at least is what I was able to understand from the translated copy of Wikipedia Galactica, I came across in a forgotten corner the Library.

Damn, I always wanted a go in the TARDIS. Next time you see him get him to pop over to Manchester.

Thanks for the advice and the insight into the future. Please excuse me now as I have these weird pepperpot things with a kitchen plunger at the door wanting something...

>Damn, I always wanted a go in the TARDIS. Next time you see him get him to pop over to Manchester.

To heck with the TARDIS, I want directions to that parallel universe. That wimpy alternative Doctor can't keep Rose happy for very long...