KDE3 requirements ??

Terry lawnman59 at netzero.net
Fri Apr 5 13:56:16 BST 2002


Not knowing what your skill level is. . .what Tim recommended would be
easier for the average user.  Yes you can upgrade your kernel and compiler
without having to upgrade the entire distro, but that really requires
upgrading quite a bit more then you realize.  Think about it.  If all you
had to do was just swap out the kernel/compiler for a newer one, don't you
think M$ would have moved people over to the NT kernel sooner?  Give a whirl
using yast or whatever it is SUSE uses.  At least that way, dependencies
should get fullfilled. BTW. . .the only way to get a slimmer/customized
kernel for your particular system, is to compile it yourself ; )

----- Original Message -----
From: "Iztok Kobal" <iztok.kobal at telemach.net>
To: <kde at mail.kde.org>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: [kde] KDE3 requirements ??


>
>
> 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 !
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------
> Iztok Kobal
> e-mail      iztok.kobal at telemach.net
> ---------------------------------------
>
>
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