On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 01:05, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote: > > > > > > I'm not quite clear on exactly what they did with KDE. I have > > > > someone just pointed me to this page: > > > > http://www.mosfet.org/noredhat.html > > > > bizarrely similar to my earlier email....
I see your guys points. Although Mosfet seems to have a history of getting really pissed off over shit like this. I'm still not so clear about why RedHat needed to make these modifications. Mosfet had something in there about using a beta X server, but he didn't elaborate. I think the biggest loser in this whole thing is going to be RedHat. They should know that it's a bad thing to piss off the open source community (something that UL hasn't learned either). It's their credibility that's going to suffer since they promote themselves as an open source leader. They also had major problems in their last major version switch 7.0 which I used for a long time and it sucked. I would have thought that this time around they would have been a little more conservative. > My neighbour has been bitching and complaining about RH 8 since he tried it. I've been using RedHat 8.0 for awhile now, and I must say that I do like it. I have had some problems compiling KDE software, but nothing major and while I do miss some of the features of my old Mandrake system, I cannot complain about RedHat 8.0. > His previous experiences with Mandrake were the same as mine. Mandrake used > to appear "too simple" for my liking. I was of the opinion it was not meaty > enough for my tastes. Until I saw it at work over at Aarons place the other > night (MDK 9.0 right Aaron?) I really like Mandrake, but I find some of their systems to be really unstable. Mandrake 8.1 would always crash on me (Windows style) and it had some strange bugs in its Gnome implementation that would create an unusable desktop. 8.2 was rock solid! I never had a problem with it, but I found MDK 9.0 to be just as buggy as 8.1 was. Once again it had some strange Gnome bugs, like once in awhile Nautilus or Gnome-terminal would max out the processor or crash the X server. The instability was the reason that I ended up switching to RedHat 8.0, although I'd like to go back to Mandrake some day :-). Jesse
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