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Author: John (EBo) David
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Subject: KDE Distro
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 --