I have been using KDE 3.5 on my box (gentoo of course) since it came out, and it seems to me to be quite stable now, but the ebuild maintainers for KDE are waiting. Who can blame them. KDE is very large by anyone's standard, and can hardly be said that all the bugs are ironed out. The larger it is the longer it will take to test it's stability. Unlike other distros gentoo allows a user to install any major or point release, at any time and with easy transitions. When I used other distros it was a nightmare to upgrade KDE on my own schedule, so I would wait for the next release of the distro. Most other distros are forced to put unstable packages into their distro because of this lack of flexibility in package managment. I will not impose my lower standards on someone who wants a unbreakably stable setup. Besides with
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.