[TriLUG] Who runs Red Hat and KDE

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 05:50 PM, karl thiele wrote:

> Do you run RH and KDE? Do you only upgrade your desktop with a new 
> release of RH?

I have been until now (at the office).  For awhile I was actually 
running OpenBSD & KDE which made it easier for me to have a pure KDE 
environment.  OpenBSD doesn't do LDAP authentication, though, which is 
something I'm a fan of.  Also I had a number of applications that 
claimed a requirement for Red Hat.  I've been gradually reducing my 
dependency on those applications, kinda like the initial move from 
Windows to Linux.

I was only upgrading my desktop with RH releases.  That's really the 
only official way to do it with RH, AFAIK.  They don't provide upgrade 
RPM's to upgrade just KDE while not upgrading the whole distro in the 
process.  I think there are third party ways to go about doing this, 
WRT KDE anyway (I believe those alternative channels were mentioned 
elsewhere in the thread).

We're making strategic changes in our Linux use, though, that will 
mostly eliminate our dependency on Red Hat (or even Linux at all, for 
that matter; *BSD will make some inroads over the next year).  I'm 
interested in seeing how well other distributions handle KDE purity & 
upgrades.

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Chris Hedemark
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