[ydl-gen] Question on YDL.net

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Ted:

You are probably very well aware how tricky your question is.  One way 
to interpret your question is that you expect TSS to provide the latest 
available KDE environment?  By the way, isn't that the job of the KDE 
folks themselves?  Remember that KDE, like many other Linux projects 
are comprised of volunteers.  TSS is a commercial entity.

Some projects are better organized and current than others, likewise 
for commercial entities.  Where they differ is at what point the 
commercial entities decide to move ahead in choosing what will go into 
their respective commercial products and why.  Each commercial company 
makes their own decisions regarding how much longer they will wait for 
a certain project to be complete as a version.  Occasionally a project 
will be moving to a newer version just at or after a point where a 
company had to decide to move and use what was already available as 
their product's usefulness in the market place is recognized as maximal 
within a certain time frame.  Each company maximizes the utility of 
their product for a certain market place.  It may be that users of that 
product may also see value in a company production, but usually these 
users (you and I) have different values of what that value is than the 
company or other corporate associates are even aware of.  Our own 
contribution, or wrinkle to the above are our choices regarding what we 
as individuals want.  If we want something, fortunately we can create 
or get it ourselves.

Exploring this is interesting because it can help highlight the value 
TSS or any other commercial entity provides in comparison to Debian and 
others.

Let's look at some distributions, ok?

                        Linux kernel   KDE     Gnome    X.org       
Firefox and Thunderbird
YDL 4.1         2.6.15-rc5       3.4.2     2.10         6.8.2           
1.5                  1.5
Debian 3.1       2.6.8              3.3        2.8                      
        1.0.4              1.0.2
Ubuntu             They are built upon Debian (we can consider this the 
same for them).

I provided the information regarding Ubuntu and Debian because they are 
known to users of this list as well.  You could research beyond this 
with commercial vendors and others but I believe it is enough.  It is 
true that one can install, and modify the standard package provided to 
whatever is current, but the dirty secret is that packages are provided 
so that they work together.  I rather have advanced packages which work 
together already at boot, thank you.  I'll mix and match on my own from 
that point.

Maybe the link here can help:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/showcase/customers/

Choose any one of the icons, and remember to take a look at Indi -- for 
Individuals.

Whatever you decide, you can always participate here.

Good Luck...

On Jun 28, 2006, at 8:03 AM, Ted Goranson wrote:

> In an upcoming shift of machines, I am considering putting YDL 4. 1 on 
> my 1G 17" PowerBook G4.
>
> I have 4.0 on my Pismo and am discouraged about how old KDE is and 
> that yum never touches something active.
>
> This message is about YDL.net. A couple years ago when I asked, folks 
> said it wasn't worth much.
>
> Is it now? If I pay the money, will it be a reliable, robust and 
> continuously rich upgrade/update source for a desktop KDE?
>
> Best, Ted
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