Is KDE 4 Stable? (was Re:Linus on Gnome 3.2)

[Peter King]

On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 05:03:41PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
 
> I wish more distros were released when they got to a stable point.

Gentoo uses so-called "rolling releases" -- install once, then update as
needed. Every now and then there is a big change and you have to pay a bit
of attention, but it's always well-flagged and everything works as described.
When it doesn't, it gets corrected right away. (There was a small bug in the
binutils package last week, and it was corrected within five hours; since it
was Gentoo, they also posted the patch earlier, within three hours, so you
could just fix the source yourself.) I moved to Gentoo from running a mix of
Debian Testing/Unstable, and never looked back; it's as solid as they are but
with a lot more control over the low-level innards. Binary distributions are
convenient but you pay a price for them.

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