KDE3 requirements ??

[Iztok Kobal]

Timothy R Butler wrote:

>Hi,
>
>>Suse6.4/i686/2.2.14/GLIBC-2.1.3/QT-2.3.2/XFree86-4.1.0/KDE-2.2.2.
>>
>
>  That's pretty old, 
>
I disagree - are we talking M$ policy now ?

>but you probably could get it to work if your willing to 
>spend some time at it. You'll need a new autoconf I believe, but I think 
>other then that you shouldn't need much - but you will need to probably build 
>KDE from the source.
>
I will surely give it a try (if it is the only solution)- but I do not 
hope for much success regarding the problems with home compiling which 
could be read on this maillist ...

>
>  If there is no particular reason for sticking to that SuSE 6.4 system other 
>then that you don't want to buy a SuSE-boxed set, 
>
I am really satisfied with how my system works right now. I am satisfied 
with the KDE2 also. I am only interested at how the KDE3 looks&feels. 
And if the Linux community stepped away (as the M$ did years ago) from 
the rule that you update/upgrade rarely and only things that are faulty 
or not satisfying enough, then it is really the wrong way as seen with 
the company already mentioned.

And it is really dissappointing to see how posting to some most visited 
maillists concerning kernel, SuSE and KDE have not resulted to find 
single man that knows what should be done to lift the system from 
kernel-2.2.x/glibc2.1 to kernel-2.4.x/glibc2.2 WITHOUT buying new distro 
and facing problems which come (and sure they do) after upgrading the 
system. So again we are back to comparission with the so-hated-company 
which suggests that upgrading is best when deleting everything and 
installing from scratch. The same appears to be with the KDE3. Is this 
what Linux community wants&needs ?
What concerns the upgrading distro in the whole - I am running root 
partition in the RAID and I am not quite sure that it would survive the 
major distro upgrading - the SuSE 7.0 still could not install to the 
RAID and I do not know for 7.3.

>can I recommend you give 
>Mandrake 8.2 a spin? MDK 8.2 is very comparable to SuSE 7.3/8.0's feature-set 
>and you can download it and upgrade to KDE 3 within about 60 minutes after 
>you've downloaded the CD's and the KDE upgrades. Much faster then the 
>alternative. ;-)Speaking of which, if you did that, but for some reason still wanted a copy 
>of KDE 1.x, 
>
And what could be wrong with it (still having KDE1) ? We have also 
GNOME, FWM1/2 and I-do-not-know-which-other desktops installed by 
default on the SuSE box. So why couldn't we have whole KDE trilogy 
installed at the same time ?

>you could always recompile KDE 1.x which would be waaaaay faster 
>then recompiling KDE 3.0.
>
>  -Tim 
>
Thank you, anyway Tim, you just bothered to give it a try while others 
did not !

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