KDE Distro

John (EBo) David plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:19:20 -0700


Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> On Monday 15 April 2002 08:26 pm, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > Any one have any suggestion as to which distro best supports KDE desktop?
> >  I'm ready to give up on Red Hat as my whole system now makes a Windows
> > 95 box look stable since I put KDE 3.0 on it and Red Hat refuses to make
> > "official" RPM's available.
> 
> Officially, we have to say that all distros are created equal (with the
> exception of RH which always screws up KDE packages).. but privately, we
> think that the best BY FAR is SuSE.  Second would be Mandrake.  I'd guess
> that a good 80% of all KDE developers use one of the two.
> ...

I hate to say that I concur...  SuSE is much more stable than RH, and
has generally better packaging.  I do look forward to how Gentoo handles
as they came up with a solution that sidesteps most of the issues.  Has
anyone played with KDE 3.0+ under Gentoo and care to comment?

  EBo --