Now let's compare this to the roadmap of KDE4.Puppy 2.17alpha available
Monday, July 9, 2007, 11:11 AM
Puppy 2.17beta available
Sunday, July 15, 2007, 07:47 PM
2.17-release-candidate
Wednesday, July 18, 2007, 11:55 PM
Puppy version 2.17 released
Friday, July 20, 2007, 12:25 AM
Here's a brief release history.* 1 KDE 4.0
o 1.1 August 2006: Technical Preview 1
o 1.2 November 2006: Technical Preview 2
o 1.3 February 2007: Technical Preview 3
o 1.4 Milestones
+ 1.4.1 April 2, 2007: Subsystem Freeze
+ 1.4.2 May 1, 2007: kdelibs Soft Freeze
+ 1.4.3 May 3, 2007: Alpha Tagging
+ 1.4.4 June 1, 2007: trunk/KDE is module frozen
+ 1.4.5 June 27, 2007: Alpha2 Tagging
+ 1.4.6 July 24, 2007: Core Library Freeze
+ 1.4.7 July 25, 2007: Beta1 Tagging
+ 1.4.8 August 20, 2007: Message Freeze
+ 1.4.9 August 25, 2007: Beta2 Tagging
+ 1.4.10 September 23, 2007: Total Release Freeze
+ 1.4.11 September 25, 2007: Release Candidate 1
+ 1.4.12 October 9, 2007: Release Candidate 2
+ 1.4.13 October 23, 2007: Targeted Release Date
The irony here is this: KDE4 is a desktop environment, and Puppy Linux is an operating system. Desktop environments should be released faster than Operating Systems... the desktop environment doesn't need to be [as] rigorously tested as an operating system for stability and workability, so once again, why release yet ANOTHER version so fast?
It's becoming tediously hard to keep supporting this operating system. If another is released within the next two months, you will not see me again.