Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kat Desktop Search Environment

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The result of the debate was KEEP unanimously apart from nom. -Splash 04:06, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kat Desktop Search Environment

Currently, the latest release of this software is "0.6.0beta1", which I assume is still in beta state - thus still not notable or significant. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:31, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - the assumptions about version numbering that you appear to have made seem to be flawed. Firstly, the fact that it is versioned below 1.0 does not neccessarily imply that the software is immature - witness Firefox, which was widely used for a long time pre-1.0. Secondly, the fact that is labelled 0.60beta most likely means that the latest release is a preliminary release of version 0.60, and that the previous release should be used by those seeking stability - so no inferences as to the maturity of the previous stable version can be drawn. Lupin 22:13, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep, although I'm a KDE user myself so probably biased jamesgibbon 23:27, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - I think that over 13.000 downloads on SourceForge should mean something... In the Kat page I forgot to mention that Kat is already included in Mandrake Cooker and is scheduled to be included in the next official releases of Kubuntu, PCLinuxOS and SuSE. I didn't also mention that at least 2 KDE developers are currently collaborating to the project. Also Debian is evaluating it for inclusion in Etch. Last but not least, I don't agree with your inference: beta = not significant. I use a lot of beta versions every day and I find them "significantly" helpful :-). Rcappuccio 13:21, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

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