Comments on: When is an open-source project ready? http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/when-is-an-open-source-project-ready/363/ for practical people. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:08:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: drseergio http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/when-is-an-open-source-project-ready/363/comment-page-1/#comment-256 drseergio Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:00:10 +0000 http://practical-tech.com/?p=363#comment-256 I do agree that for most of the users out there it is not easy to really understand their versioning, perhaps they could be more explicit. On the other hand, it is not really fair to assess end-user experience on a release that is intended for a technology review. Same goes for any open-source project (closed source as well, as you mentioned), meaning that you don't really expect your compiz-fusion v0.0.0.0.0.1 proof-of-concept work flawlessly but you do, however, expect to see something new. Yes, version 4.0 does sound like being mature and ready but I guess you should think of x.0 versions of KDE as being separate products. So what we've got right now is a rather raw 1.0 version which does work but does not really work well on a end-user desktop. I can't judge on that myself because I switched to XFCE (got a slower machine). I even think that thorough reviews are positive for the project so that common issues could be resolved in the later releases. As a side note, concerning the current execution speed of KDE4: I can't really judge but the new KDE packs a huge set of innovative services so it shall take some time to polish them and run smoothly. I really appreciate that there is a such strong movement in open-source desktop development area - having new ideas and innovations is really cool! I do agree that for most of the users out there it is not easy to really understand their versioning, perhaps they could be more explicit. On the other hand, it is not really fair to assess end-user experience on a release that is intended for a technology review. Same goes for any open-source project (closed source as well, as you mentioned), meaning that you don’t really expect your compiz-fusion v0.0.0.0.0.1 proof-of-concept work flawlessly but you do, however, expect to see something new.

Yes, version 4.0 does sound like being mature and ready but I guess you should think of x.0 versions of KDE as being separate products. So what we’ve got right now is a rather raw 1.0 version which does work but does not really work well on a end-user desktop. I can’t judge on that myself because I switched to XFCE (got a slower machine). I even think that thorough reviews are positive for the project so that common issues could be resolved in the later releases.

As a side note, concerning the current execution speed of KDE4: I can’t really judge but the new KDE packs a huge set of innovative services so it shall take some time to polish them and run smoothly. I really appreciate that there is a such strong movement in open-source desktop development area – having new ideas and innovations is really cool!

]]> By: john http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/when-is-an-open-source-project-ready/363/comment-page-1/#comment-253 john Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:37:35 +0000 http://practical-tech.com/?p=363#comment-253 “KDE 4.0.x is not a user-centric release but rather a technological release to show off technologies and provide an environment for developers.” And if only it were what the above sentence suggests! KDE4 is not even that unless you define a showcase of technologies a piece of sluggish, slow as hell, constantly crashing software... I just define that as *bad promotion*. “KDE 4.0.x is not a user-centric release but rather a technological release to show off technologies and provide an environment for developers.”

And if only it were what the above sentence suggests! KDE4 is not even that unless you define a showcase of technologies a piece of sluggish, slow as hell, constantly crashing software… I just define that as *bad promotion*.

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