[GLLUG] Distribution Shopping
Brian Hoort
hoortbri at msu.edu
Mon May 17 09:34:43 EDT 2004
Thank You all for your response.
In answer to the predominant question, paraphrased, "What did you mean to
say, you louse?", I was worried the first time I booted into Fedora that
KDE support was an afterthought, and in the long-term would be a
disaster. If you look at the installation deafults, they are all for
Gnome-based apps, and all of RedHat's administration stuff was GDK-based .
. . It definitely gave the impression they were standing on that side of
the battle. I am worried that if I deselect all of that stuff and
clicky-clicky on all the KDE that the distro would be buggy and not work
well. Anyone else have experience with doing that?
Another Question:
I tried all weekend to do an up2date, and they just hang up. Are there
mirrors I should be using? I couldn't find any. Is it the local software
hanging up or lack of server resources on the other end? If so, that
doesn't do well for the Fedora choice, does it? Ulrich alluded to this
in his message, but didn't quite explain the "trainwreck".
Thanks all.
b
At 04:56 PM 5/14/2004, you wrote:
>I'm not sure what you mean; I am running Fedora. I have KDE installed, and
>I do not have Gnome installed.
>
>Brian Hoort said:
> > I'm browsing for a new distro. I would very much like to have a KDE-based
> > one. Connectiva appears to be, but it's spanish speaking native. I
> > checked out Fedora, it's definitely Gnome-oriented. Any ideas?
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