Very Computer

Hello,

I just installed Red Hat 5.2 and was disappointed not to find a running

version of KDE. Are there any KDE RPMs for Red Hat 5.2 out there?

The directory

"ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/rpm/RedHat-5.2"

is empty.

How come Red Hat 5.2 doesn't ship with KDE? Didn't Red Hat 5.1 include

KDE after all? Is it because they included Window Maker instead?

Is KDE incompatible with kernel 2.2.x and Red Hat 5.2 for some bizarre

reason? I still can't believe KDE wasn't part of their distribution.

Is there anywhere I can get the RPMs from?

The reason Redhat didn't include KDE is for among many other reasons,
they
plan to include Gnome, a competitor to KDE. If you really want an
integrated
Redhat and KDE distribution, I suggest you look at Mandrake Linux.

--
Prasanth Kumar

Anyway, I suppose no distribution has everything, and no matter what
distribution I get, I will always end up having to download stuff from
the web to get what I want on my system. A 10GB distribution of Linux
would be great: it would offer great choice and flexibility though it
would probably be a bit more expensive than the others. One of the
nice things about Linux is that unlike with M$, you get free software
with it. However, the more packages a distribution includes, the more
users are able to appreciate the size of the development effort in
the Linux community and its effectiveness in providing users with
variety and versatility.

    You can buy the official RedHat Installation Guide (a pretty good book,
actually) for about $15... which means you can get a complete RedHat system
with documentation for less than half the price RedHat charges for the
priviledge of opening a shrink-wrapped box.  Well, I guess you do miss out
on their "90-days-only", "installation-issues-only", "email-only" tech
support... but you can get far better support anyway just by being a
regular subscriber to this newsgroup! <smile>

    It deeply troubled me to see in one of these reply posts the notion
that RedHat will be promoting Gnome over KDE.  I've seen and used both...
and while I understand that Gnome is not as far along in the development
process as KDE, what I've seen gives me the impression that it will NEVER
get to a point that I would like the product!

    All of corporate sponsorships and investments seem to point in the
direction of RedHat becoming the de facto standard for the Linux mainstream
(hehe... I don't know if I ever expected the Linux community to grow to the
point where we might have a "mainstream" demographic!).  I hope that KDE
doesn't get "Macintosh"-ed (when a superior product falls into obscurity
because it isn't as widely distributed).

Steve

Andreas Schyman

Quote:>     It deeply troubled me to see in one of these reply posts the notion
> that RedHat will be promoting Gnome over KDE.  I've seen and used both...
> and while I understand that Gnome is not as far along in the development
> process as KDE, what I've seen gives me the impression that it will NEVER
> get to a point that I would like the product!

If Red Hat puts KDE and Qt on its CD along with Gnome, then hats off to
the folks at Red Hat.  They will prove to world that they truely have
the end users best interests at heart.  If KDE and Qt are missing then
the Linux doomsayers have been right and its time to switch to another
distribution!  We will have to wait and see.

My guess is we'll see KDE and Qt on the RH distro simply because it makes
good business sense to do so, and Red Hat is after all in the business to
make money.

erik olson

Quote:> If Red Hat puts KDE and Qt on its CD along with Gnome, then hats off to
> the folks at Red Hat.  They will prove to world that they truely have
> the end users best interests at heart.  If KDE and Qt are missing then
> the Linux doomsayers have been right and its time to switch to another
> distribution!  We will have to wait and see.

And since they're both GPLed, well... what would be Red Hat's benefit
if they packaged only Gnome?

mawa
--
Every woman and every man should at least try to keep in mind through
their whole life just how incredibly bad one is able to feel during
puberty.
                                                                -- mawa

There must be some component of the boxed set that RH sells that they
won't provide source for (I *don't* know what that component is), so
they don't bundle KDE because KDE uses QT.

Simeon