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Re: KDE's Plasma 5 nearly perfected...

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On 06/28/2018 12:06 PM, Aragorn wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2018 16:57, Bobbie Sellers conveyed the following to
> alt.os.linux.mandrake...

	Set the follow-up to alt.os.linux.pclinuxos
> 
>> Hi readers and typers
>>        I am using PCLinuxOS64 and what I mention here about KDE is only
>> applicable to that distribution which is a Rolling Release.
>>
>>    Well I checked again today and one of the recent updates,
>> 200+ on Sunday, restored the Time Copy function to the Digital Clock.
>>    Thursday, June 28, 2018
> 
> Yes, this latest Plasma update should bump the version to Plasma 5.13,
> and the ability to copy the time from the clock to the clipboard was
> indeed announced as one of the features of 5.13.
> 
> But according to KDE themselves, 5.13 is the end of the road, barring
> any patch level updates to fix more of bugs.  So that means that they're
> already preparing for Qt6 and Plasma 6.

	Well I hope they take a long rest after all this pointless effort, 
since I see all the changes since 3.5.9 as pointless and amuse
themselves by finding and fixing the security aspects of the current
version(s).

> 
> Plasma 4 was already fairly usable and stable by the time it hit 4.6,
> and the 4.14 I'm using here is really, really good ─ safe for Akonadi,
> which has always been a piece of junk.  (Duplicate mails, ghosted
> duplicate mails that won't disappear until you restart Akonadi, and so
> on.)
> 
> I therefore find it alarming that KDE needed to get Plasma 5 up to 5.12
> first before it became stable enough for production use.  Anything
> before 5.12 was simply put too unstable.  A simple Firefox crash could
> easily take down the whole desktop.
> 
>>    Hurray.
>>    And by the way my Firefox is at version 61 now if only kernel
>> 4.17.3 works out well all will be swell.
> 
> As I understand it, the problems with many of the latest kernels are due
> to the Meltdown and Spectre patches.  It appears to be an upstream
> problem, rather than a distro-specific problem.  The people on the
> Gentoo mailing list are also reporting crashes and other irregularities
> with the latest kernels.
> 
> Best is to stick to one of the latest LTS kernels.

	I use the latest functional kernel and always have
an older kernel ready to use if the new one gives me a problem.
Only once in the updates to deal with the Spectre and Meltdown
problems has a kernel failed to work.  I let Texstar know about
it and he was very accomodating but then I donate to the effort
to keep the work going.
	I haven't lost any work as far as I know to Plasma 5.

	bliss

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KDE's Plasma 5 nearly perfected... Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2018-06-28 07:57 -0700
  Re: KDE's Plasma 5 nearly perfected... Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-06-28 21:06 +0200
    Re: KDE's Plasma 5 nearly perfected... Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2018-06-28 12:39 -0700

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