Lamar Owen wrote:
>>does this exist for CentOS 4 ?
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> Yes, the EL4 repository works fine on CentOS4.
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>>taking a wild swing, I set up /etc/yum.repos/kde-redhat.repo and for
>>S&G's, I ran the obligatory 'yum update' to see what would happen.
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>>It's an aggressive update to be sure.
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> Yes, it is.
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>>KDE 3.5.0 (and all the dependent stuff such as qt) but also samba and
>>openoffice.
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>>Is anyone reporting happiness / contentment with their repo enabled and
>>their updates installed?
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> I use it daily on multiple machines; I have a twin need for the stability
> of CentOS (update-wise) on one hand, but the features of the later Kstars
> (part of the 'edutainment' kdeedu package) on the other. Kstars for KDE
> 3.4 and above has telescope control; see my .sig for why that might be
> important to me.
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> The 3.5 update didn't really break much. However, you will have
> difficulty with things that use the kdesu utility, since, at least with
> the latest updates, su is asking a second question (about the security
> context) and that hangs kdesu hard
Ack. I'll have to look into that.
> KDE 3.5 is slower, unfortunately, so you don't want to do this on an old
> machine; the machine needs to be recent and needs to have more than 256MB
> RAM for sure. On one machine, going from 256MB to 512MB doubled its
> apparent speed; the further increase to 1GB added another 33% or so on
> some tasks.
Provided ample RAM, I've personally found kde 3.5 to be subjectively
faster (partly due to pkg optimization tweaking).
-- Rex
