From: aragorn@chatfactory.invalid   
      
   On Thursday 05 November 2009 01:00 in alt.os.linux.gentoo, somebody   
   identifying as AZ Nomad wrote...   
      
   > On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:44:08 +0100, Aragorn   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thursday 05 November 2009 00:39 in alt.os.linux.gentoo, somebody   
   >> identifying as AZ Nomad wrote...   
   >>   
   >>> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:28:11 +0100, Aragorn   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Thursday 05 November 2009 00:18 in alt.os.linux.gentoo, somebody   
   >>>> identifying as AZ Nomad wrote...   
   >>>   
   >>>>> I only expect to switch to gnome for the time period between kde3   
   >>>>> being unuseable and kde4 being made useable.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Why not unmask KDE 3.5.10 then?   
   >>>   
   >>> I indend to and keep using 3.x until the bitter end.  However, with   
   >>> the news about kde3's support ending, I don't expect 3.5 to keep   
   >>> working for much longer, unmasked or not.   
   >   
   >> Hmm, I don't think that they're going to break it, but rather that   
   >> the "end of support" means "we're not going to be fixing any more   
   >> bugs in it or apply any patches to it".   
   >   
   >> I don't think KDE 3.5.10 will ever really disappear until at the very   
   >> least KDE 4.x has its act together, and by that time they may even   
   >> already be working on KDE 5.0. ;-)   
   >   
   > not another dot zero release!  I hate them!   
      
   Unfortunately, only MICROS~1 starts with odd-numbered releases. ;-)   
   (The first ever edition of Windows NT was versioned 3.1 so as to keep   
   it "within the same generation" as Windows 3.1 for DOS. ;-))   
      
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