I came across a lot of sites which claimed that KDE 4 is highly unstable. I even came across a post that says that KDE 4.02 is so unstable that he had to downgrade from KDE 4.02 to 4.01.
I know that KDE 4 is not as feature rich as KDE 3.X but its decently stable and under no circumstances a release version of KDE 4 performs worse than previous version as far as stability is concerned.
Most distributions shy away from KDE4 thinking it to unstable or not ready for mainstream use. Well maybe its true for some unfortunate ones who do not use OpenSUSE.
OpenSUSE devs contributes a lot to KDE 4 development and are the first one to release a live CD based on latest stable KDE 4. Currently KDE offers two live CD's and they are both OpenSUSE based.
The installable 1.0.2 Live-CD contains only stable applications of KDE 4.0.2 release and third party and the installable 1.0.66 Live-CD contains all KDE4 modules, KOffice and some extra applications.
I thought of testing the KDE 4.02 version to verify that 4.02 is stable. It ran perfectly with hardly any error prompting me to install it on hard disk. The only problems I faced was a few crashes of Konqueror when trying to open flash based sites. Then I upgraded my system to KDE 4.0.66 and the crashes stopped. OpenSUSE has a package named kde4-gtk-qt-engine in repositories which makes GTK applications like Firefox and Gimp look great and as part of overall KDE 4 theme. Not sure if we have Kubuntu packages for KDE 4.0.66, but OpenSUSE version is very stable and pleasing looking.
In my pervious experiment with OpenSUSE 10.3, I found the default KDE 3.X desktop to be ultra stable and functional.
KDE 4 version is not that functional and lacks the polish of KDE 3.X version but is definitely much better than KDE 4 implementation of other distributions.
EDIT::
Check out another nice review of OpenSUSE at http://jamesangus.ucantblamem.com/general/opensuse/150.
I specially liked the words "OpenSUSE is the first distribution that I’ve used without having to touch the terminal."
I know that KDE 4 is not as feature rich as KDE 3.X but its decently stable and under no circumstances a release version of KDE 4 performs worse than previous version as far as stability is concerned.
Most distributions shy away from KDE4 thinking it to unstable or not ready for mainstream use. Well maybe its true for some unfortunate ones who do not use OpenSUSE.
OpenSUSE devs contributes a lot to KDE 4 development and are the first one to release a live CD based on latest stable KDE 4. Currently KDE offers two live CD's and they are both OpenSUSE based.
The installable 1.0.2 Live-CD contains only stable applications of KDE 4.0.2 release and third party and the installable 1.0.66 Live-CD contains all KDE4 modules, KOffice and some extra applications.
I thought of testing the KDE 4.02 version to verify that 4.02 is stable. It ran perfectly with hardly any error prompting me to install it on hard disk. The only problems I faced was a few crashes of Konqueror when trying to open flash based sites. Then I upgraded my system to KDE 4.0.66 and the crashes stopped. OpenSUSE has a package named kde4-gtk-qt-engine in repositories which makes GTK applications like Firefox and Gimp look great and as part of overall KDE 4 theme. Not sure if we have Kubuntu packages for KDE 4.0.66, but OpenSUSE version is very stable and pleasing looking.
In my pervious experiment with OpenSUSE 10.3, I found the default KDE 3.X desktop to be ultra stable and functional.
KDE 4 version is not that functional and lacks the polish of KDE 3.X version but is definitely much better than KDE 4 implementation of other distributions.
EDIT::
Check out another nice review of OpenSUSE at http://jamesangus.ucantblamem.com/general/opensuse/150.
I specially liked the words "OpenSUSE is the first distribution that I’ve used without having to touch the terminal."
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