[kde-linux] KWifiManager ?

[Dale]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 09 October 2009 12:44:40 Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
>   
>> On Friday 09 October 2009 00:47:11 James Tyrer wrote:
>>     
>>> Sorry to say that I don't have a network.  An optional dependency for
>>> KDEBase is the the NetworkManager program:
>>>
>>> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/
>>>       
>> Unfortunately, this program does only compile for one of eight distros. I
>>  am building my system by my own ( Linux From Scratch ), and the program
>>  does not build !!
>> BTW: I hope this is an error and a unique case ! I do not like _absolutely_
>> the idea, to be dependent of a distro when using Linux ! It looks for me
>>  like the first step to a windows-surrogat !
>>
>>     
> This is a complete misunderstanding of the world of linux.  You would be no 
> more dependent on a distro than you are dependent on a detergent brand to do 
> your laundry.  You may choose the convenience of pre-prepared packages in a 
> distro, but the underlying linux is the same, and every application that runs 
> on one distro will also run on another (except, of course, where you are 
> running a development or testing version, when a different version may not be 
> quite as state-of-the-art).  None of your data is affected by the distro of 
> your choice.
>
> Anne 
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I agree.  I use Gentoo.  Lets just say I got tired of Gentoo or Gentoo
went belly up, I could install some other distro while saving my /home
partition and wouldn't lose anything at all.  The new distro would be
different but I wouldn't have to worry about losing any data at all.   I
can't say that about windoze tho. 

If you like Linux from Scratch, then you should look into Gentoo. 
Gentoo is basically LFS but with a really nice package manager.  I been
using Gentoo since about 2004 and it is really nice.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S.  Anne, I left that part below your name on purpose since I know
you are working on that issue.  Your sig is gone but it left the rest. 
May be on my end tho.  I don't know.  Seamonkey user here.