I have been running KDE on my SL6 linux desktop for several years with
no problems. I started with SL6.3 and it is now at 6.8.
I've just done a number of upgrades of SL5 machines. You can choose to
install KDE when you select the desktop environment.
(All my machines are 64-bit.)
Cheers,
Eve
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017, John Pilkington wrote:
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:21:21 -0500
From: John Pilkington <[email protected]>
To: Mailing list for Scientific Linux users worldwide
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life
On 31/03/17 20:06, Larry Linder wrote:
We are still using SL 5.10 on a number of workstations. The users are
used to using KDE with a lot of desktops - 12 or more. We switched a
number of boxes to SL 6.8 and we get a lot of grumbles about desktop.
We run VMWare and load applications that require Windows there. We have
everything from Windows 2000 Server to Windows 10 on system.
Thank you All for an excellent OS.
Got a number of responses but there were a lot of missing parts we could
not locate. Anybody really done it?
If we could only have KDE for SL 6.
The screen on my SL6 32-bit laptop stopped working a few months ago and I
haven't felt an urgent need to get it going again - but KDE seemed fine to
me.
http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/sl/6/x86_64/RPMS.stable/
John P
Thank You
Larry Linder
MicroControls LLC
On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 21:12 +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Time for a loud and clear "THANK YOU!" to the (present and former) team
> members for a full decade of remarkable support for SL5.
>
> - Stephan
>
> On Mar 31, 2017, at 20:27 , Pat Riehecky wrote:
>
> > Scientific Linux 5 has reached its End of Life.
> >
> > After March 31 2017 Scientific Linux 5 will not receive further
> > updates and the files will be archived.
> >
> > The existing files will be moved into
> > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/obsolete/ for archival
> > purposes after March 31 2017.
> >
> > This will break existing yum repos and kickstarts using the official
> > distribution servers.
>
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