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Leonard Leblanc ----- Original Message ----- From: Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 6:37 AM Subject: Debian potato & KDE > While I've being working with RedHat 7 for 8 months I'm an absolute beginner > with Debian 2.2r2 potato which I'd like to install first on a spare PC just > to have a go at it and then to substitute Debian for RH7 on my PC's in view > of its well known stability and real open source nature (II'm just waiting > for the CD's that I've bought as your site suggests). > Being in love with the KDE desktop I wrote the following message to the KDE > people of www.kde.org and got the following answer. > My question is as simple as that: where can I download KDE files for Debian > potato or what should I do step by step to have it on my PC? > Thanks and ciao > Vittorio > > > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: Kalle Dalheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inviato: lunedì 29 gennaio 2001 15.14 > A: De Martino Vittorio (GRTN) > Oggetto: Re: And Debian KDE? > > > On Monday 29 January 2001 14:02, you wrote: > > Both in the list of Linux distros supporting KDE2 and in the Download > > section of your site I can't see Debian 2.2. potato, one of the most known > > and used. > > I simply do not understand. Why is that? What can I do? > > > The Debian people did not want to make KDE packages so far. I don't know > exactly why that is, but it might be because they receive financial > contributions from our "competitor", the gnome project. We do not make > binary > packages ourselves (for no distribution), that's up to the distributors. > > The best thing you can do is to build and upload Debian packages yourself, > the second best thing is to bugger the Debian people to include KDE. > > Kalle > > -- > Matthias Kalle Dalheimer > President & CEO/VD > Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB > Fax +46-563-540028 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
