All I think I am going to stick with the SuSE 10 choice, I looked at Red Hat's Fedora an well for me SuSE seems a bit more comfortable and being from a Database background, it is the OS that IBM recommends for DB2 if you push them for a preference. I also am going to use this on my laptop and it seems SuSE has more support than does Fedora, I may be wrong but that's just my opinion.
Rich Richard A Sharpe 8 Meadowview Lane Merrimack, NH 03054 "May His light Shine on you and Guide you" "Put Christ back in CHRISTmas" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:11 AM To: GNHLUG Subject: Re: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros On 12/21/05, Jim Kuzdrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have compiled KDE from source, which may be my only option in the > future. Who is championing KDE at the moment? I gave up on Red Hat > when they went to Blue Curve or whatever. I'm not sure what you mean by "championing". Certainly, the Red Hat/Fedora "default desktop" is GNOME, but they package KDE as well. I'm currently using KDE as my "desktop environment" on my FC4 box, and had no problem doing the same when it was FC3. The can even get rid of most or all of the GNOME packages (depending on what other stuff you want to keep), if you like. As for "Blue Curve", that's just Red Hat's custom UI theme (basically icons and window trim). The idea behind it is to build identical themes for all the various GUI components, so that Red Hat's distro looks the same regardless of what someone happens to be using. Red Hat claimed it was for usability; personally, I suspect it's mainly a marketing/branding thing. Regardless, it is basically superficial, not functional, and you can switch the themes easily enough. I never understood the fuss around it. As for other distros... Debian doesn't really push one or the other. Mandrake (or Mandrivia or whatever it is now) was originally created as Red Hat-plus-KDE (back when RHS refused to ship KDE due to a licensing objection). That was years ago, of course; perhaps things have changed. Not really sure if any of that will help...? -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
