[oclug] RH7

[Gilles J. Seguin]

Shad Young wrote:
> 
> I hate being a 'me too' guy, but I have to agree with Nam...
> stay away from 7.0. This is by far the
> worst distro to come out of NC in a long time. There is still far to much
> emphasis on Gnome (which is IMO, holding them and Linux back from ever
> reaching the avarage desktop), and not enough on KDE and KDE2 with KDE1
> compatibility libs.

Two remarks:
- Red Hat has been fussy about the license on the qt libraries.
  Since the changed with the license thing are different.
  Their position has produce in my opinion positive results,
  they are then pro-KDE.

- With a little bit of observations, you will agree that the
  release of 6.2 and 7.0 where in complete desynchronization.

The proof is: ftp download.sourceforge.net, cd in rawhide, ls kde*, and
ls qt*.
That site keep old copy of version of rpm that have appeared in rawhide.
For january, new rpm has appeared each week, and one release for
the first week of February. qt is version 2.2.4

Then your assertion is wrong, and Red Hat is doing a very good job
with the support of KDE2.

> Linux Mandrake 7.2 is a far superior RH based distro, it sets up well, has by
> far the coolest install and startup routines, used KDE2 and X4 very well, is
> very fast and very complete. My only complaint with it is they changed thier
> configuration manager from 7.1 and frankly it works no where near as
> well...one of the old, "if it aint broke dont fix it" kinda problems, and KDE1
> compatibility is terrible.