BYO or manufactured?

[KevinO]

Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> Last Monday SuSE 8.3 was released officially supporting and using KDE 3.0 as
> it'd default desktop.  As for patience, KDE and Mandrake both claim to have
> "official" KDE 3 RPM's. 

Not quite, Mandrake states that the rpms for KDE 3.0 are unsupported, and 
suggests waiting for 3.01. Here is a quote from their announcement :
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Mandrake and KDE 3.0
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KDE 3.0 was released on April 2nd 2002. MandrakeSoft developers have
uploaded KDE 3.0 packages on the KDE FTP server (ftp.kde.org and
mirrors) for Mandrake-Linux versions 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. These packages
are meant to be installed in parallel with KDE 2.2.2, which makes it
possible to use KDE 2.2.2 applications that haven't been ported to KDE
3.0 yet. For this reason, the KDE 3 packages install themselves into
/opt/kde3.

Note: These packages are unsupported and are intended for users who
enjoy the "bleeding edge" -- use at your own risk. Typical users are
encouraged to wait for the upcoming KDE 3.01.

For all the details, plus installation instructions, please see the
following page:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/mdk-kde3.0.php3

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