New to linux

[Alex]

El Martes, 15 de Julio de 2003 15:25, Andreas Nicolai escribió:
> In case you are not fixed to a certain linux distribution I would recommand
> taking Suse, because it has by default a working and fairly up-to-date
> version of KDE and the QT lib.

Debian has a new KDE and Qt, too (from CVS, if you want). If you pick an old 
version of "distro A", you will have an old KDE. If you pick an old version 
of "distro B", you will have an old KDE.

> Basically you can install a Suse system within 2 hours and start developing
> right away. The code you write is then available for all linux
> distributions that have the current KDE/QT libs installed.

You can install a full system, ready for developing (or anything else), using 
any distro if you have 2 hours or less, sure :-).

If you develop using kdevelop, or using autoconf by hand, the code you write 
will be portable, doesn't matter in which distro will the program be 
installed. In most cases, the program is also binary compatible, if there are 
not differences in the compiler (gcc 3.2 vs. gcc 2.95).

> In case you have a running linux system already, just install Suse on a
> second HD (or somewhere else), otherwise you run the risk of wasting
> precious time with trying to get KDE working on your current platform (and
> IMHO "wasting time" and "deadlines" don't mix well...)

I don't want to start a distro war, of course :-), but...
Buy a SuSE box (or get the images by ftp), and reinstall a whole system, is 
slower than updating a installed system:
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

If you run X, I will not recommend change to Y, if that means doing all the 
work again, and you are in a hurry ;-).

Best regards,

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