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Not liking RH 8.0 yet.

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Calum:
pardon my ignorance, but it is possible to have several versions of the same compiler installed, isn't it? i seem to remember installing both gcc 2.96 and 3.0 when i installed mandrake, but if a particular program needs one or the other, does it know where to find it? i have had some problems recently with some installations failing due to my not being able to convince a program that all the dependencies are actually installed on my machine.

Re: KDE vs GNOME, GNOME for some reason after all these years does seem to be a bit behind KDE, and of course it originally was playing catchup to KDE as it was basically a KDE clone, making a free software version of the K desktop. I support the concept of GNOME for that reason alone however i can't get my copy of it to run properly on my machin, it keeps buggerring with the mouse and so on. I still like nautilus and galeon better than konqueror though (although nautilus and konqueror both seem to be rife with mysterious program crashes, maybe it's my hardware. maybe it's because my copies of the software are a year old, who knows?

choasforages:
i like the fact that kde is written in c++. i mean, the way kde is tightly intergrated with itself, its gotta be making microsoft jealous. and i think that cd burning on a desktop os, should not require root, and i think calls to cdrecord should be built into nautilus, just as a precaution to counter winxp built in cd recording, except this would actally be decent

KernelPanic:

quote:Originally posted by void main:

And if I remember correctly, that is one of the sole reasons for the coming of Mandrake and one of the reasons it had gotten so popular. Mandrake took the RedHat distro which was always touted as a Server OS (until the release of 8.0) and put KDE on as the default desktop, dummied down some things and called it a desktop OS.

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You remember rightly.
I think the reason they (RedHat) never favoured KDE was because they didn't like the licence of qt.

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by choasforages:
and i think that cd burning on a desktop os, should not require root
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It doesn't require root if you set the permissions properly.

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