Red Hat Eight! =o.O=

[hm_murdock]

WHOA!

Got my hands on it today, and dragged that old turdburglar Celery 633 out of mothballs...

IT FLIES!

Even the shaftshiner Intel 810 video is better in X11 than the "optimized" windoze drivers.

Windoze eXPee... what a turd.

Red Hat 8, what a "nearly as good as Mac OS X" OS

[slave]

If you're a KDE fan, I highly suggest getting KDE 3.1 using   apt.

Then put this in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

### For RedHat 8.0
## Core os and updates (required)
rpm     http://apt.freshrpms.net/ redhat/8.0/en/i386 os updates
## Stable packages (required)
rpm     ftp://apt.unl.edu/apt/ 8.0 kde3 kde3-extras
## Unstable/test packages (optional)
#rpm    ftp://apt.unl.edu/apt/ 8.0 kde3-test

Then type:

 apt-get update
 apt-get install kde
 apt-get dist-upgrade
 
That should do the trick.
Here's the webpage if you need more info:
http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

[Doogee]

slack is faster   :rolleyes:

[slave]

Too bad RH8 is 10x easier to use  

[ForceSphere]

As time goes on Linux will keep getting easier.  This will destroy the need for major linux gurus.  Very bad for Linux gurus, very good for the Linux community.

[hm_murdock]

X11, as soon as I get a modem hooked up, I'll get the upgrades, but I think that as per KDE, I'm gonna let it be. I've found myself liking GNOME much more. it just seems more polished at this point.

Also, what window manager are they using for the default GNOME config? Is that IcwWM or Enlightenment? Or did they do somethin' new?

Whatever it is, I love its flexibility with fonts, et cetera.

Also, I take back anything I might have said about X11 in the past. Windoze on this shitball Intel 810 is about as slow as it comes... but this is much, much, much better. It's truly amazing. I wish I'd gone out and just gotten the damn thing sooner

[Doogee]

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
Too bad RH8 is 10x easier to use      

youve obviously never used slack then, tsk tsk tsk.

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
If you're a KDE fan, I highly suggest getting KDE 3.1 using   apt.

is that going to work if one is running kde or any of its components at the time? i imagine this should be done while *no* K* components are actually running (including kppp), yes?

and X11, gnome can use many different window managers, which is nice, in knoppix, they have set it up to use icewm for example (i think it's to save space on the CD)

[ March 17, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: Member # 81 ]

[TheQuirk]

KDE 3.1 owns the hell out of ANYTHING Gnome produces. Even major Gnome developers admit that KDE has surpassed Gnome in terms of tighter intergration and more features.

The reason you think KDE sucks is because Red Hat crippled KDE in their 8.0 release. I suggest you download KDE 3.1 binaries and install them--you'll see what everyone is raving about.

[hm_murdock]

I know, I used to use KDE. I liked it much better.

As for downloading things, that's problematic, as that would require downloading with my iBook over a crappy 56K connection, burning it to a CD, copying the files in windows, and then going through all that jazz.

Oh well, right now, I don't even have it installed. I'm waiting to get a new board and shit. I'll keep the crappy celeron for windoze, and use a new one for RH8

[TheQuirk]

I could burn it and mail it to you, if you want.

[choasforages]

kde 3.1 kicks ass. kde is intagrated tighter then then windows, and its done the right way at that. besides for the most part, the cut and past issue is moot nowdays. methinks the kde crew should write something called KGTK1.2 and KGTK2, wrappers for gtk and gtk2. but that would be too much.