[TriLUG] Who runs Red Hat and KDE

[karl thiele]

Chris Hedemark wrote:

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> On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 05:50 PM, karl thiele wrote:
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>> Do you run RH and KDE? Do you only upgrade your desktop with a new 
>> release of RH?
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> 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. 

Last place I was at (unemployed, but studing for another career, 1 yr to 
go)  I ran BSDOS, WindRiver... I ran kde on it because it worked right 
away, lucky I guess. Ran OpenBSD only to port to.  I was doing IPsec work..

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> 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). 

I have been installing KDE from source most often because I have been on 
many platforms and at the time I started with kde I was developing on 
Solaris at work. I like to keep work and home on the same desktop. 
Myself and a friend supported open source software for Fujitsu for about 
3-4 years, so I was used to doing this sort of thing. Along came 
konstruct and that certainly made things much easier.  I then thought if 
I am doing this I bet some else is and just wondered how many and how 
they did it. I also do not like to step on things with the defaults of a 
RH rpm, should they provide upgrade, usually only for security in the 
case of kde and RH. If there are enough doing this then I could provide 
a pure KDE environment. To run Gnome apps just let kappfinder do it's 
thing.   

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> 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. 

You maybe correct here. I watch the tribug list which is not very 
active, not many bsd folks around. I contributed a lot to the early bsd 
4.1 & 4.2.  BSD has a real need to document things though a lot outdated 
material. Now in Japan, there are a number of companies using BSDOS. I 
think openBSD seem the most popular here. I do not know why the bsd can 
not merge into one.

I am a fan much more of Linux, but some of the "fan" base wears on 
me....  well still figuring out what to do with kde and rh. I guess I 
ought to count up the responces and see what comes out of this.

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