-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 09:37, Johnny Stork wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get a complete set of RH 8, KDE 3.1 RPM's??? > All this talk all around the world about the possibilities of a viable > Linux on the desktop, now or in the future, and yet the most popular distro > does not have anyone immediately building and promoting RPM's to show off > the latest and greatest desktop? Wow, we....the Linux community, still have > a long ways to go.
to be fair, RH doesn't release new major versions of software in a revision release. they wait for their own major releases to release new major versions of packages for various reasons, among them stability and to give QA it's due course. to be fair, RH isn't the Linux community. they aren't Linux, nor are they the community. they are one small group of members of the Linux community. to be fair, there are people working on RH 8.0 RPMs (including RH themselves). help them out at kde-redhat.sf.net. unless, of course, you either don't really need/care for KDE 3.1 RPMs on RH8 or aren't part of the Linux community. to be fair, not every _user_ of Linux is a member of the community. those non-members get a Free ride, but they also don't have much say in what happens. to be fair, you could just build it from source (either starting with the raw tarballs, using konstruct or even grabbing the SRPMs that are available for KDE 3.1 on RH). or you could use a distribution that services your needs better; many others have done just that. so while i don't think it's wonderful that RH doesn't have 3.1 out for RH 8.0, i wasn't expecting it nor do i see that as a reflection upon the greater Linux community. at the same time, i'm very encouraged to see your anticipation of and desire to use KDE 3.1. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php If this helped you, please take the time to rate the value of this post: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=aseigo&p=KDE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+SKH91rcusafx20MRAl7GAKCjpvNDv01UVncnxK4Ly88zxRQWCwCfdRnL tO8rVJgWEHfBL/Mb37aPAes= =BPqQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
