...and the difference between 9.10 & 10.04 Beta are the window buttons, which are now on the top left corner.
Seriously, there's a major flame war on this in the "Ubuntu Blogosphere". Don't these these bloggers have anything else to do, other than obsess over the placement of window buttons? (Which can be very easily reverted back to original way)
KDE 4.4 with all its bloated goodness in Akonadi and Nepomuk should be kept away from any distro that wants to have a relatively stable "unstabilty" in its releases.
KDE 4.4 blew it BIG time with hardwiring Akonadi to Kmail/Kontact. That said- I find GNOME to be a lot more sane...
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Things have improved drastically at Mandriva now, they're a LOT better with their packaging and stuff. Their 2008.1 release was simply the best release of last year among all distros.
I've used Opensuse's and Mandriva's KDE 4.2.2 extensively and Opensuse's KDE broke more frequently than Mandriva's. Infact I don't recall Mandriva's KDE 4.2.2 breaking at all...I've never had the dreaded and fragile Plasma crash on me:)
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With all your gripes (and majority of them are true- especially the knetworkmanager), you might wanna give Mandriva 2009.0 or the soon to be released 2009.1 a try.
They've done an awesome job with KDE 4.2.2 (available as an unofficial backport through ftp.kde.org) for 2009.0, and it doesn't use the ultra-crappy networkmanager from KDE4 or KDE3 too...but has its own netapplet which is probably the best out there.
Kubuntu stinks royally bad as a KDE distro and gives KDE a really bad name among the Ubuntu community and others at large. A Mandriva or an Opensuse does KDE the "right" way and not the butchered way a Kubuntu does.
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...and the difference between 9.10 & 10.04 Beta are the window buttons, which are now on the top left corner. Seriously, there's a major flame war on this in the "Ubuntu Blogosphere". Don't these these bloggers have anything else to do, other than obsess over the placement of window buttons? (Which can be very easily reverted back to original way)
KDE 4.4 with all its bloated goodness in Akonadi and Nepomuk should be kept away from any distro that wants to have a relatively stable "unstabilty" in its releases. KDE 4.4 blew it BIG time with hardwiring Akonadi to Kmail/Kontact. That said- I find GNOME to be a lot more sane...
Things have improved drastically at Mandriva now, they're a LOT better with their packaging and stuff. Their 2008.1 release was simply the best release of last year among all distros. I've used Opensuse's and Mandriva's KDE 4.2.2 extensively and Opensuse's KDE broke more frequently than Mandriva's. Infact I don't recall Mandriva's KDE 4.2.2 breaking at all...I've never had the dreaded and fragile Plasma crash on me :)
With all your gripes (and majority of them are true- especially the knetworkmanager), you might wanna give Mandriva 2009.0 or the soon to be released 2009.1 a try. They've done an awesome job with KDE 4.2.2 (available as an unofficial backport through ftp.kde.org) for 2009.0, and it doesn't use the ultra-crappy networkmanager from KDE4 or KDE3 too...but has its own netapplet which is probably the best out there. Kubuntu stinks royally bad as a KDE distro and gives KDE a really bad name among the Ubuntu community and others at large. A Mandriva or an Opensuse does KDE the "right" way and not the butchered way a Kubuntu does.