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Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024 (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: This week, the Linux distro biz emitted Fedora 29 and RHEL 7.6, and in the latter's changelog the following appears, which a Reg reader kindly just alerted us to: "KDE Plasma Workspaces (KDE), which has been provided as an alternative to the default GNOME desktop environment has been deprecated. A future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will no longer support using KDE instead of the default GNOME desktop environment." In other words, if you're using RHEL on the desktop, at some point KDE will not be supported. As our tipster remarked: "Red Hat has never exactly been a massive supporter of KDE, but at least they shipped it and supported you using it."

3 of 203 comments (clear)

  1. Context by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think some context is required for the article.

    1. RHEL is mostly used in server environments. Desktops usually aren't a focus for RHEL users.

    2. Support for KDE Plasma is being removed. That doesn't mean you can't install KDE, just that it's not supported. If something breaks you're on your own.

    3. There were some other major removals or depreciations which the article mostly skips over. Python 2 is going away in favour of Python 3. Btrfs is being dropped entirely. A lot of driver support is being trimmed for future releases.

  2. Re: Fedora did KDE better than Ubuntu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are years behind. Qt is under GPL / LGPL licenses.

  3. Re:Fedora did KDE better than Ubuntu by Per+Wigren · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try KDE neon. It's Ubuntu LTS + rolling releases of the latest stable versions of the KDE packages straight from the KDE project itself.

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