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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released
Alexander "Tolimar" Reichle-Schmehl writes "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) after 22 months of constant development. With 12 supported computer architectures, more than 23,000 packages built from over 12,000 source packages and 63 languages for the new graphical installer, this release sets new records, once again. Software available in 5.0 includes Linux 2.6.26, KDE 3.5.10, Gnome 2.22.2, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, Iceweasel 3.0.6, Apache 2.2.9, Xen 3.2.1 and GCC 4.3.2. Other notable features are X autoconfiguring itself, full read-write support for NTFS, Java programs in the main repository and a single Blu-Ray disc installation media. You can get the ISOs via bittorrent. The Debian Project also wishes to announce that this release is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian Developer who died on December 26th, 2008 in a tragic car accident. As a valuable member of the Debian Project, he will be sorely missed."
Unlike you, some of use actually have a basic understanding of the KDE projects numbering system. Why in the world would you base your assumptions concerning general readiness off of a version number if you are not familiar with how/why those numbers are assigned? How could you honestly expect there to not be regressions from 3.5.x to 4.0.0? Give be a fucking break and quit bitching about the past.
I expected regressions. I did not expect a barely unusable, unstable alpha project full of obvious glaring bugs that was tagged with a final release number.
I will stop bitching about the past when people stop trying to rewrite recent history, and stop claiming that the KDE team communicated the state of the project clearly. I didn't submit my post out of the blue; I wrote a response to someone who stated that the 4.0 release notes claimed that 4.0 was an alpha release and not ready for production machines, which it did not.