Re: Alternative til Mandrake

From: mjg (goreymedia_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:03:53 +1100

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:01:20 +0100, mogens wrote:

> I have used part of this X-mas to try playing with Linux (normally I use
> XP). This has been both positive and negative, but I now have to move away
> from Mandrake, as almost all the applications I have tried out are unstable
> (kbear, glimp, rekall).
>
> I was looking for a distro with KDE 3.3, as I must say that KDE 3.2 is
> disappointing compared til XP. But SuSE is in general accused of being
> extremely slow, and Fedora - which should be shipped with 3.3 - is using
> GNOME as standard. Then as far as I can see, there are no good distros with
> 3.3 - or?????
>
> I do not know the difference between KDE 3.2 and 3.3, but from various user
> posts, it seems to be a rather nasty challenge to upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3,
> which is the reason why I would prefer to have 3.3. pre-installed.
>
> Mepis and Slackware are getting good critics, but they are shipped with KDE
> 3.2. And if they are equally difficult to upgrade from as Mandrake then my
> problem is not solved.
>
> Hope for some ideas.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mogens

I had problems with Mandrake updating new versions of programs. I now run
Mepis and find the Debian apt-get system easy to use.

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