On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 August 2008 19:54, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: >> Em Ter 12 Ago 2008, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED escreveu: >> > I need to install a few new systems in the next >> > few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code >> > development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above >> > all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might >> > be better off with F8 than F9. Is this true? >> >> I, for one, would stay with F8 and KDE 3.5.9 for a while. KDE 4.1 is now >> much better than KDE 4.0 released with F9, but it's still far from >> finished and much of the functionality of 3.5.9 is not available yet. >> Also, there are many really annoying bugs waiting for fixes. >> I'm currently using KDE 4.1 on F9, but if there was an easy way to go >> back to F8 and KDE 3.5.9, I certainly would. >> >> []'s >> Marcelo > > I'd downloaded the 6 cd iso's on dialup for Fedora 9, but hadn't got around to > installing it, as there were updates waiting for other distros. I updated my > Archlinux install, which was going to upgrade KDE 3.5.9 to KDE 4.1. Stupidly, > looking back on it, I let the upgrade go ahead, and ended up with a KDE4 > desktop that was virtually unuseable compared to my KDE 3.5.9 one. > > I could give a huge list of problems with KDE4, but the first that I noticed > is that the sound had stopped working. That is a real no no for me, as the > first thing I check on a new install is that the sound works. How exactly did you pair the problem of "sound not working" with "KDE4" ? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
