23 Jun
2009
23 Jun
'09
5:43 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, allan wrote:
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:43 -0500, Brent Busby wrote:
It's true, very true that in Linux, nobody's making your update your
software. But my studio machine is not so dedicated that it's not also
on the Internet. I like getting security updates...and eventually,
there comes a point where a KDE 3 desktop is just not patchable anymore.
Since I posted that, I decided to go with KDE 3 afterall, and did
install it, but I still know I can't stay forever...not if I want to
keep on getting security support.
On the bright side, it's not as obnoxious as some company changing their
file formats every release version just to keep you upgrading because
they arbitrarily want to keep taking your money.
--
+ Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
+ UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
I think I'm going to go with KDE 4, just
because it's the future, like
it or not. Short of setting up a standalone machine that never gets
updated, no one can stay on KDE 3 forever, so I'm plunging forward.
This is a rather blanket statement.. Linux is each to their own "freedom
of choice"... If someone gets the functionality they need from a wm and
it happens to be manually configured (like the old days)..
for those of us that have been using linux for "pro" audio purposes for
a while we have learnt that an non-obtrusive wm tends to allow for lower
latencies (less polling happening)...
but as I said each to their own..