[SLL] KDE3 vs. KDE4 on Ubuntu Intrepid/8.10 [was: Open Office 3.01]

[Phil Mocek]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:23:07AM -0800, Glenn Stone wrote:
> I haven't been brave enough to try the Ibex on the box I depend
> on for email... at this point, might just wait for Jaunty.  The
> thing about releases immediately after LTS ones is they tend to
> have some bustage in'em...

KDE4 on Intrepid is a disaster.  I only use one KDE application
regularly -- Akregator -- but I use it heavily (Lifrea for Gnome
is not as useful, and neither of them matches OS-X-only
NetNewsWire in terms of functionality and usability).  The KDE4
version of Akregator included with Intrepid is unusably slow, when
it starts without crashing, on a 1.4 GHz PIII with 1.5 GB RAM and
on a dual-core 2 GHz machine with 4 GB RAM.

As a result of disappointment with the upgrade to KDE4, someone
set up a Launchpad PPA repository with KDE3 packages for Intrepid.
Details are here:  <http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/>.  Discussion
is here: <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=963695>

-- 
Phil Mocek