My principal Distro has been RH since the 5.1 days, so I was brought up
on Gnome. I'v played around with KDE from time to time and it has always
seemed a more mature platform. The only thing keeping me away from the
switch was the aesthetic; no matter the theme-style-font combination,
that sucker was ugly. When KDE 3 came out I ran it for a while with the
aqua theme, things were getting alot prettier, but the integration with
the rest of Redhat sucked, and for some little reason or the other I
switched back to GNOME.
I've been running limbo, then null, and now 8.0 for several months.
Gnome 2 is pretty, but there are alot of gnome applications that have
yet to be ported, and they did something to Gnome-terminal that really
sucks. They changed terminal key-mappings for keys to something
different than the xTerm default! I work with several other Unices and
this broke alot of stuff. Konsole still works fine, and for this reason
I've made a permanent switch to KDE(at least for now). With the Blue
Curve theme I get "the pretty", and with KDE I get the maturity. For me
this is the best of both worlds.
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 22:18, Smitty wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 October 2002 09:30, you wrote:
> > I stand converted...
> >
> > Last night I installed RH8.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 (PIII
> > 900MHz, 256MB RAM, 20GB Drive. Since I am working on my RHCE I
> > installed EVERYTHING (as a server) so I can use it while on the road to
> > boost my skills.
> >
> > It installed FLAWLESSLY, and has performed without a hitch. With SuSE,
> > there were some issues, but I was able to get around them.
>
> I did a fresh install of SuSE 8.1 and had no problems at all. The only
> problem seems to be in the upgrade from a previous version: Firmware of
> certain cdroms can cause problems and, after the fact, the directory and file
> changes after SuSE's LSB compliance, requires a manual cleanup.
>
> > I have not
> > yet found anything wrong.
> >
> > I am amazed at how easy it was for the laptop. Of all the distros I
> > have tried thus far, this one had the fewest issues. And something else
> > seems to be true as well...it seems to run faster than the SuSE I had
> > installed.
> It would be better to benchmark them, Dave, than give an offhand opinion.
> They would have to run the same kernel, SuSE 8.1 uses 2.4.19 and RH 8.0 uses
> 2.4.18, and run the same daemons, run the same file systems, etc.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm glad I made the switch.
> >
> > Dave
>
>
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