On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 19:01 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: > > Marc Wiriadisastra wrote: > >> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 15:07 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > >> > >>> Marc Wiriadisastra wrote: > >>> > A big snip Marc, because I think I found your man for KDE. > He is a Prof and has classes of students that prefer KDE. > > His name is > > Tim Leger > Graduate Research Assistant / Adjunct Professor > Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering > Wright State University > Dayton, OH > > And this was our last talk over email: > > Hi Karl, > > I'm not what you would call a power user of KDE, but I do prefer it over > gnome. I do a lot of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code development as > part of my research, so usually I just have two terminal windows open up > side by side. I don't get into a lot of the KDE packages, I even use vim for > editing source files (call me old fashion). However, I also setup a > computer lab last summer for my university (to help with the Fortran 90/95 > class I teach as an adjunct) and we're currently running Fedora 7 on 24 HP > d7700 desktops with nVidia FX1500 video cards. The lab is also used for > teaching Finite Element Analysis (via Ansys), CFD (via Fluent/Gambit), and > several other classes. The reason we went with Fedora was because it's > quickly becoming the only Linux distribution (beside Red Hat Enterprise) > which the software vendors we use support (and Red Hat Enterprise doesn't > support the latest hardware we get, like the d7700 desktops when we got > them). As I have the most experience with Linux in the College, I've been > taking care of the lab for the university. > As for setup of the machines in the lab, I used the Fedora 7 x86_64 DVD > and installed KDE afterwards via yum. This way I've got gnome to fall back > on when KDE starts acting up and to help debug problems when they arise. > We're using the nVidia drivers from livna and after installation I used one > of the "tips and tricks" websites to get all the extra goodies installed > like the mp3 codes and such. > I have noticed that at least in my class, the students prefer KDE over > gnome for the most part because it reminds them of Windows XP. My big > complaint of late with KDE is that the Fedora update packages have been > breaking things which were working just fine before. I won't go into all > the issues as other have already posted them here, but suffice it to say > everything with KDE and Fedora 7 was working fine for us before the updates > in November. > Anyway, I'll talk with some of the students I know in the College who use > KDE a lot more than I do and see if they're willing to e-mail you with their > experiences. Basically, I just try to keep things working in the lab and on > my two computers at home. Let me know if you have any specific questions. > > Regards, Tim Leger > > His email address is: tleger.fedora@xxxxxxxxx and I said you will call him. I wish you the best Marc > > Karl > Thanks I just emailed him. Cheers, Marc -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
