Best distro for KDE

thefish

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Tuesday, October 22nd 2002, 8:53pm

Hi everyone. What is the best distro for KDE? I just want the basic console based stuff, with the latest kernel, X and KDE. I don’t want a lot of Gnome stuff and what not kicking around. I have downloaded Debian but am having trouble getting X to run on my Dell 4300 (ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP).

Earlier versions of Red Hat were easy to install but KDE blew-up left right and centre. Now with Red Hat’s forking KDE and Gnome I would rather stay away from them.

Thanks,

The Fish.

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dimitri

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Tuesday, October 22nd 2002, 8:57pm

Well if you want to have a relativly fast system with lot's of features you should use SuSE 8.1 or MDK 9
If you are brave and looking for speed you should try gentoo. But be aware, that this is not a beginners distribution.

Dim

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kde-forum

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Tuesday, October 22nd 2002, 8:58pm

best for you

i think the best for you is mandrake or suse!
but I would say mandrake so go to http://www.mandrake.com and download the 3 isos!

:arrow: zenok

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Slarti

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Tuesday, October 22nd 2002, 9:00pm

Hi,

have a look at Gentoo Linux. Or if you are an experienced linux user you should have a look at Linux from scratch.

I both cases, your system is compiled optimized for your hardware.

Bye,
Slarti

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Kenneth

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Wednesday, October 23rd 2002, 4:18am

The best would be one that installs a graphical environment for you easily from the start. If you don't like how Red Hat is doing things, then the best choice is Mandrake, although I have yet to try SuSE.

"Chopsticks require a person to use 64 muscles and 30 articulate movements simultaneously, which also acts in developing brain potential."

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mkrohn5

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Wednesday, October 23rd 2002, 11:05pm

Re: Best distro for KDE

Sad that Debian does not work on your system. Anyway SuSE 8.0 was a great experience for me (it found all my hardware at once) and I heard that SuSE 8.1 is even better. Also SuSE sponsors some KDE developers therefore this is a good choice IMHO.

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The Kid

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Wednesday, October 23rd 2002, 11:09pm

Lindows if you're willing to pay, Mandrake if not. Also, other considerations are Lycoris and Xandros.

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seb

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Thursday, October 24th 2002, 3:37am

Lindows my ass.....

MDK 9!

http://www.sebruiz.net/
http://amarok.kde.org

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The Kid

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Thursday, October 24th 2002, 6:07am

Depends on who you are...

Lindows is better for me since I don't know much about Linux.
For everyone who are happy with Mandrake or RedHat or whatever distro they use, then stick with it, they don't need Lindows.
I have one question for everyone. Why does everyone hate Lindows? I don't hate RedHat, Debian, SuSE, or Mandrake. They are all Linux distros.

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dimitri

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Thursday, October 24th 2002, 7:32am

Hi,
Lindows is not very popular in the community. Every other Distributor provides code to the community has KDE,Gnome, Kernel or what ever developers.
But not Lindows. The haven't provided a single line of code as far as I know. They only take. They had a struggle with CodeWeavers, because they changed WINE (a a API to run Windows programs) and didn't gave the code back as the GPL claims.
Well new user don't know about that, but the 'old' ones do.

Lindows does not work with the community but even against it, in my oppinion.

Dim

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seb

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Thursday, October 24th 2002, 9:08am

i was just humouring Lindows

no offence to you or any other lindows users

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LinuxRaichu

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Thursday, October 24th 2002, 7:21pm

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Original von dimitri

Hi,
Lindows is not very popular in the community. Every other Distributor provides code to the community has KDE,Gnome, Kernel or what ever developers.
But not Lindows. The haven't provided a single line of code as far as I know. They only take. They had a struggle with CodeWeavers, because they changed WINE (a a API to run Windows programs) and didn't gave the code back as the GPL claims.
Well new user don't know about that, but the 'old' ones do.

Lindows does not work with the community but even against it, in my oppinion.

Dim

Just my speech! Lindows is just a "wine-enhanced" Linux-OS. But what really sucks in my opinion is Click'n' run. WHY do I have to pay for the GIMP, for example? It's GPL'ed, so why pay?
Everything runs as root (I know you can change it, but who else?), and that scraps most security measures. I have nothing against Users of Lindows, I just say Lindows os somewhat a really STRANGE and frightening Distri, since it doesn't seem to have learned from M$ failures. It's just somewhat not Linux anymore...no GPL, no open Source...that's just not what it was meant to be.

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Kenneth

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Friday, October 25th 2002, 12:21am

Do you have to use Click'n' Run to get new programs? Why don't you just get the program from it's original site? And shouldn't this thread be in the distibution forum?

"Chopsticks require a person to use 64 muscles and 30 articulate movements simultaneously, which also acts in developing brain potential."

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blackfam972

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Friday, October 25th 2002, 3:35am

Lindows

Lindows does supply sources to all gpl code.

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The Kid

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Friday, October 25th 2002, 6:20am

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Original von Kenneth

Do you have to use Click'n' Run to get new programs? Why don't you just get the program from it's original site? And shouldn't this thread be in the distibution forum?

Of course, you don't have to, but why would you if its in Click and Run?

Click and Run's cost is for convenience and the commercial software in the warehouse.

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Kenneth

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Saturday, October 26th 2002, 2:03am

Well, I'm cheap and I would rather go download RPMs or tarballs to install new programs instead of having to pay up money, since I don't even have an allowance anyways.

"Chopsticks require a person to use 64 muscles and 30 articulate movements simultaneously, which also acts in developing brain potential."

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Keith

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Saturday, October 26th 2002, 2:11am

I think Lindows would be more impressive to other people if they lowered their fee.

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The Kid

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Saturday, October 26th 2002, 2:40am

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Original von Kenneth

Well, I'm cheap and I would rather go download RPMs or tarballs to install new programs instead of having to pay up money, since I don't even have an allowance anyways.

If you are good at finding dependencies and can install things from tarballs and .rpms, then you don't need Lindows, great, you save money.

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Keith

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Saturday, October 26th 2002, 6:20am

Well everyone could learn how and save money too.

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blackfam972

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Saturday, October 26th 2002, 9:23pm

Lindows

Its not just about easy software installs its the whole complete package thats bundled with lots of great software like hancom spreadsheet and staroffice and tuxracer deluxe.

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