--- Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 27 April 2008 18:57:05 Antonio Olivares > wrote: > > Also at that time, if I am not mistaken, Red Hat > did > > not put much emphasis into KDE that Mandrake Linux > was > > born using Red Hat as the base and they took up on > KDE > > and made it look better than Red Hat. So in some > ways > > Anne, you have used Mandrake Linux and now > Mandriva, > > you like KDE and as you have mentioned you will > also > > run Mandriva 2008.0 or 2008.1 because Fedora's KDE > is > > not there yet and you need a comfort zone. Am I > right? > > > Yes and no. I've used Mandrake/Mandriva since > version 8, so there's a lot of > truth in what you say. However, when I tried > running rawhide leading to FC6 > I found that I did like that as well. Over the last > couple of years I've > found that running either one makes me want the > other :-) Consequently I'll > have Mandriva on this laptop, where I need it to be > 'comfort zone' as you put > it, but I shall also have F9 on another box. I also > have CentOS on my > server, which, I'm sure you know, is very close to > FC6. > > > Like Antonio M mentioned earlier, if you take the > > Fedora DVD the default will be gnome, if you want > KDE, > > you would be better served using The KDE Live CD > > variant. I install both if I have the space, I > use > > k3b and some KDE apps. > > > Sometimes I install both. Sometimes I install KDE > and one of the lighter > desktops, though I haven't done that just recently. > > > FYI, > > I install both KDE and Gnome when I install Fedora > > onto my machines. Which one I use on a particular > > machine depends on which one runs better on the > > machine. > > Absolutely. Also, I prefer kde applications for > some things and gnome > applications for other things - and that varies from > one distro and version > to another. Consequently, I may not have a gnome > desktop installed but I'll > certainly have a large slice of gnome libraries > etc.. > > > As for stats, I do not care for them. > > There's Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics. For > Rawhide, > > I would like to give KDE more of a chance, but it > is > > not beating out Gnome for the starting position. > > Gnome is doing a better job for me. my $0.02 :) > > It has to be a personal choice. Of course at the > moment KDE is in a very > difficult position. It has to get out into the > wider public for testing - a > bit like rawhide :-) - yet it's still very much a > work in progress. At the > moment there are going to be a lot of complaints, > mostly because it's not > clear which things are gone for ever and which > things are merely 'not quite > there yet'. I do talk to several KDE developers, > and am quite happy to ask > them questions like that - once I'm back from my > holiday :-) > > I may not see any reply to this, as I've just signed > off for a couple of > weeks. I hope you have a nice vacation :) I agree with your statements. We need to have comfort zones! > > Anne > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
