Submitted by ggarron on Sat, 12/08/2007 - 20:27
I am not a KDE user, but used to be, and after seeing so much about KDE4 I am really thinking about start using it again.
But the question Beineri ask is. Which Distro will be first to ship KDE4?
According to him as soon as it is released lots of distributions will start to offer it, well maybe that will not occur with my favorite Linux Distro (Debian) even though I am using Lenny in my Laptop.
Maybe Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Sabayon and others like those will offer KDE4 as soon as it is available, also CentOS is another issue, theses Systems, Gentoo, CentOS, Debian, which are more focused on stability will not offer KDE 4 as soon as it is available, but others focused on Desktop applications, as I said, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva, will offer it as soon as possible.
That is of course my humble opinion.
Update: I was wrong in my perception, Debian will not be behind, please read here:
KDE4 won't be on Hardy Heron except maybe in an unsupported repository/version of the Kubuntu distro. right now as it is, there's a KDE4 live cd based on Opensuse that works pretty well, it still has a few rough edges but the KDE4 dev team is working on it. Kubuntu already has the KDE4 preview packages in the repositories, perhaps when KDE4 is finally released it will just transition over like usual, in that case Kubuntu would be one of the first to have KDE4 in the repositories albeit unsupported.
Debian is not exaclty behind. Read:
http://ekaia.org/blog/2007/11/21/kde-40-rc1-calamity-in-experimental/
Thanks I will update the post,
regards,
Guillermo.