What are the Political Issues Regarding Slackware and KDE 4.4?
Just what are the political issues surrounding Slackware and KDE 4.4?
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What political issues are you referring to? I've not heard any rumblings.
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Political issues? Please elaborate. Perhaps KDE 4.4 will be standing for parliament and advocating that the death penalty be re-instated for users of other desktop environments.
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Here's the specific post that Ponce refers to above.
From what I can tell, this isn't really a political issue, it's a technical one involving PAM, Polkit (the latest iteration of Policy Kit), Shadow, and KDE. Regards, |
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Ah, okay, so it is a political issue... :D
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I was also wondering the same thing after reading Aliens Blog. What kinda of political resistence is there to KDE 4.4? I don't understand.
I can't imagine 4.4 being so much different from 4.3. He inferrred that it has something to do with the path larger distributions are taking? Anyone have an insight? |
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It boils down to the other distributions using Polkit and PAM and then requiring KDE to be developed with those technologies. Alien Bob says in his post: Quote:
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From my perspective Slackware is quite apolitical. That is, decisions about the inclusion of software into Slackware appear to be driven by a clear pragmatism. That is, if we include a particular software set into Slackware will it enhance the OS or f*#@ it up? I don't really see a political agenda afoot. I very-much appreciate the fact that PV is conservative when he introduces new technology into Slackware.
Slackware's reputation for security and rock-steady stability is well deserved. :) |
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I guess the KDE 4.4 issue is about adding PAM. Aliens blog raised my curiosity but I am very happy with 4.3 and could happily live with it for 5 more years. |
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On a different note, I'm new to linux, just since september past, and then newer still maybe 2 months with Slackware. Do these types of things pop up in the OSS world frequently? |
I hope that will be solved and the future releases of Slackware still continue to support KDE.
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