consul tores wrote:
No, the tendency to imitate Windows as a desktop. Yes, there are many alternative desktops and windows managers, but i have only one compaq presario laptop to use, which is working perfectly using Lenny-Kde; and 3 days ago i received a new tool, a lenovo thinkPad Edge, on which Debian Lenny can not recognize the video card, wireless card, and possibly another hardware. The point is that in my laptop, i used to use kde 3.5 (Lenny), and now i have to use testing or sid; when i could use the testing/sid base plus Kde 3.5, if it were existed a monolithic kernel+base testing/sid adding kde 3.5.
Okay, well, if I understand correctly the problem is about drivers availability and KDE?
A workgroup[1] backports drivers for major Linux releases, so efforts about recent drivers and stable distributions issues are beeing taken; support should go to them.
1: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/driver-backportUpstream has stopped maintaining the KDE3 suite however (I believe), so there's really nothing any distro can do about it. I must admit I didn't really follow the KDE4 debate, but I'd blindly trust Debian not to package broken software as important as a major DE. Maybe you can find some "ports", but I think you'd probably be better off trying to improve the KDE4 suite by submitting them your ideas about what bothers you (as long as they do not belong better to another project). Please ignore that if I seem to have misunderstood you.
> Please, try to understand that i am not an expert in this field, i am > only a Debian user, my field of work is Agriculture!Yep, okay, I just hope I can make you find your peace with Linux after all. My opinion is the one of a user as well, by the way, I'm really no expert either.
So, in the end, no, I don't quite see how the BSDs model would do a better job at maintaining older software in an unstable tree.
This discussion is a bit confusing, to be honest (again I'm sorry if I misunderstand you). As it's quite rapidly drifting OT, it'd probably be more appropriate to continue this off-list or in another thread, if you really want to.
-t