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Why RedHat8.0 wont have KDE ?

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Master of Reality:
ya, where did you hear that redhat didnt come with KDE???!!! Isearched for a while and found nothing of the such. I will probly be upgrading to Red Hat 8.0.
Red Hat has been my favorite distro so far.

orcpeon:

quote: In Red Hat 7.3 they got rid of enlightenment, maybe they are slowly trying ro abolish GUIs??
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No, it's just that E is pretty much dead and GNOME fits a lot better into their vision of the Linux desktop.  You can, of course, download enlightenment RPM's and install it yourself.  But, I can see why Red Hat doesn't want to confuse people by putting 12 window managers in their OS.  8.0 only comes with GNOME and KDE, and doesn't even install KDE by default (but it's very easy to select it in the add/remove packages section)

I'm also tired of everyone riding red hat these days and giving them such a hard time.  You know they are the ONLY Linux company so far getting into the desktop area that isn't going to force you to pay for it in some way. (unlike those filthy bastards at Lindows.com and Xandros)

[ September 20, 2002: Message edited by: Orc Peon ]

Master of Reality:
Lycoris, Mandrake.
you have to pay for Xandros?

rtgwbmsr:

quote:Originally posted by Orc Peon:
I'm also tired of everyone riding red hat these days and giving them such a hard time.  You know they are the ONLY Linux company so far getting into the desktop area that isn't going to force you to pay for it in some way. (unlike those filthy bastards at Lindows.com and Xandros)

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If they were the only choice where you didn't have to pay, I would use Red Hat. But, since I have the freedom of choice, I can download something easier to use.
Is Red Hat a bitch sometimes? Yes.
Will I try 8.0? Yes, I'd like to see if the've improved anything.
Will I advocate Red Hat as much as I used to? Yes. Just because it was a pain in the ass to me doesn't mean it will be a pain to the next guy. And it's only pulling shit on one system, my other system's RH installation is great, and I haven't had one problem. Red Hat is also the only Linux OS (to my knowledge) with a "...For Dummies" book.

RH does have KDE BTW. My friend just installed it, so I called him, and he says it's there. Maybe bazoukas skipped over it in the install?

[ September 21, 2002: Message edited by: The_Muffin_Man/B0b ]

voidmain:
I am in complete agreement about RedHat. I used to flip flop between it and Slackware until RedHat 3.0 came out, then I've stuck with RedHat as my primary Linux OS both at work and at home. And it's what I use in my side business.

I also use Konqueror over mozilla and any other browser for a couple of reasons. 99% of the time I access this site from my old Dell laptop, sitting on the couch working and watching baseball. It's a 350Mhz Latitude with 64MB of RAM. Konqueror is by far the fastest and lightest feeling browser on this machine. It works very well, great control over cookies/javascript/java etc. It's very compatible and I like the fonts better than any of the others.

Now I haven't tried the new Gnome 2.x or the new Nautilus yet as it was not ready when RedHat 7.3 came out which is what I have been using for some time now. I am very happy with KDE 3.x a huge improvement over 2.x.  If Gnome has as drastic of an improvement when I get RedHat 8.0 next week (or whenever it is released final) I will certainly give it a look.

Historically KDE has won the desktop battles on my machines for quite some time now. Actually prior to KDE 3.x I was using Windowmaker on this laptop because KDE 2.x and Gnome were too resource intensive. KDE 3.x seems to be much improved as far as speed and resources on this old machine.

All I can say is, I am excited about RedHat 8.0 where I am usually not in any big hurry for their *.0 release.

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