Hello Robert,
I guess the next question once I start building it is... what Linux
distribution to go for.
I personally use Fedora. It has everything I need, a polished look,
and I can select KDE at install (I prefer it as you do).
About package management:
* Fedora uses yum, similar to Debian's apt-get but uses rpms at its
core (don't
worry about RPM hell, yum manages that for you and very well).
* yum works well though there is a small wait each time you run it (it updates
package lists at every startup unlike apt-get).
* I had some problems with apt-get sometimes silently overwriting config files
instead of merging them as it should, yum has never done that to me.
* Tried gentoo as well and I found recompiling packages eveerytime I updated
took lots of time. Sometimes a weekly update could take 2 days to
compile and
install everything! Not worth the small performance gain of compiling
everything for your specific processor, IMHO.
I've heard lots of good things about Ubuntu (Kubuntu for us :-) too
but I haven't actually used it (I booted it off a live CD to check it
out, but that's it).
Good luck,
J-S
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