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Sinner from the Prairy wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Saturday 24 May 2003 02:282am, karl thiele wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Who runs KDE with Red Hat?
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Me. Sometimes.
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<pre wrap="">Do you like the support you get for KDE in the RH distributions?
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Uhhh... what do you mean?
This month someone discovered a vulnerability in KDE... and RedHat
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Well RH provides updates to what they feel ought to belong in KDE, if you
compare what installs from source from kde and what comes from RH, RH leaves
out features. RH does not seem compelled to keep up with kde releases.<br>
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Ken Whal just pointed me to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/">http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/</a> . Seems there
are others who want a full kde on RH.<br>
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<pre wrap="">How do you keep current with KDE updates and/or new releases?
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Like with any other distro. If you want a KDE patched against all known
bugs, use the current distro... and use the provided KDE.
If you want the latest KDE, compile it yourself, get it from some guy
who has compiled it for your RedHat or keep an eye for the development
versions of RedHat, as they will contain the latest KDE.</pre>
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I have always gone and compiled it my self the konstruct package makes this
rather easy it runs and will down load everything build and install it just
by typing cd meta/kde; make install. Very easy except that it does not do
a good job of picking a mirror to down load from, you can download (gftp)
sources yourself (i do) into a cache and konstruct will use those. <br>
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opps got to run finish my response later...<br>
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This is like other distros. For example, in Mandrake it's the same.
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<pre wrap="">I mostly run RH for much of my work and I do not like the way RH
supports KDE and vice versa.
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What is your gripe with RedHat? RedHat offers a nice and polished
KDE.RedHat offers the BlueCurve theme. RedHat re-arranges the menu so
it makes more sense for a user (à la Debian and Mandrake). RedHat
offers promtly patched versions of KDE when a bug is found.
And all this is GPL, just like KDE.
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<pre wrap="">I also am annoyed there is no rpm for RH distributions at KDE.
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I'm mildly dissatisfied that there's no KDE-3.1.2 for neither RedHat nor
Mandrake nor Debian Slink nor...
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<pre wrap="">I migrated from FVWM to kde upon kde's first
beta,
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Me too.
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<pre wrap="">so I am long in the tooth as a user. konstruct is fairly easy
to use to build from src, but I am still annoyed I just can not get
an rpm and install and keep on going. I have on occassion found some
who has built an RPM, but those have not always worked.... Just want
to get feel if anyone else feels the way I do. If there is interest I
will build, test and support (for a while anyway), or if someone
knows where "good" RH RPMS exist, I certainly would appreciate a
URL....
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Being both KDE and RedHat open source software, you have several paths
of action:
- Do It Yourself (tm)
- Use Someone Else's previous work (check URL that surely you will get
here)
- Ask someone to do it for you (in exchage of pizza, MountainDew,
money).
For example:
- For Quanta+ 3.0 , on RedHat 7.3 and Mandrake 9.0 and built my own
rpms.
- For qvwm I went the 2nd option, and used the rpms from PLF.
- For KDE 3.,1 on Mandarke, I did chose the 3rd option --> Mandrake
Club.
If you build rpms for RedHat / found them... let us all know about it.
Salut,
Sinner
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