On Monday October 28 2002 09:49 am, Mr. Elusive wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm sort of a newbie. I am a Mac guy and have been using OS for a > little over a year now. I installed Red Hat Linux on my wifes computer > with the GNOME interface. I was thinking of switching to KDE. is the > any advantage of one interface over the other? I need a GUI that has > easily configured networking in a SAmba/CIFS environment (to network > with Windows XP/Mac OS X machines). can anyone give me pointers or > information on how to do this? > > Thanks > > Josh
1. If you already have KDE installed, than all you need to do is switching desktop. There is a shortcut menu in RH 8.0 to do this, I just don't remember it and I don't have RH 8.0 in front of me now. You should be able to find switchdesk under the GNOME menu. Or I think you can also log out and login in KDE (choose KDE as the Desktop). 2. If you are using RH 8.0 (I assume that from you other posting), and does not have KDE installed already, all you need to do to install KDE is insert the Redhat CD. Under the menu somewhere, there is a GUI for installing/administrating RPM packages (again, I can't remember what.. someone help me here). Then just click KDE as the package to install, and redhat will install it for you. I think this feature is one of the good features in RH 8.0. I suggest you not install KDE from source or from RPM that was compiled under different distro / RH version by yourself if you have not had any experience with it. Since RH 8.0 is "different", it might ruin your system, configuration, and stuff. But if you want some adventour and challenger, then go ahead :). Hope this helps. Reuben D. B. -- ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
