KDE vs. GNOME on F10

[drago01]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis<fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:

> Further: The behavior changes to much IMHO -- one reason why I use
> Fedora at home and work and suggested it to others were the major new
> kernel versions that got delivered as regular update. But that doesn't
> really work anymore since half a year or something: F-10 is still on
> 2.6.27, 2.6.29 sits in Updates-testing for ages; 2.6.30 is out for
> weeks, but no sign of a update for F-11 apart for a few commits in CVS. :-(
>

If I got this correctly the main reason are the out of tree drm
patches (modestetting) needs to be ported, just rebasing to newer
upstream bits does not always work because it would require updated X
drivers.

So it ended up like the old xen days (delays due to back/forwardporting effort).