[LUAU] Something Linux Related
I thought I would put in something Linux related. I installed OpenSuse on a Virtualbox machine. It was a network install. It took hours. Part of the problem was that Suse's servers have the bad habit of dying. At least it was easy to recover. I installed KDE4. I was pleasantly surprised; this was the first KDE4 from a distro that I found usable. It was vastly better that Fedora's aborted monstrosity. Another benefit over Fedora, is that Suse's X server actually played well with Virtualbox. I am also playing with a Qemu image of KDE4daily. These are regularly updated versions of KDE4 on Ubuntu (almost daily). I am watching the updates come down as I write. I have seen KDE4.1 go from a painfully slow, crash prone desktop to something improved. It's picked up speed (yes, even on Qemu), and it doesn't crash as much. Sometimes, a new feature will creep in, but I'm still waiting for a decent bookmark tool for Konqueror. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Something Linux Related
One thing I liked about KDE3 was their version of Konsole (X terminal program). I had set up nice settings for it so it felt like Firefox with the tab shortcuts and a few other things like you could make different display settings for the title bar and the tab text. You could do this thing where you could send the text input for one window to all the other tabs. So not with KDE4 they've 'cleaned it up' so a lot of the reasons I used it in the first place are gone. They've taken out all the 'Advanced' features. I may as well be using Gnome-Terminal. Luckily I haven't upgraded my office workstation so I'm still on the Konsole version I like... A different story on my home laptop. Anyone know if I can easily run KDE3's Konsole on a KDE4 based distro? Anyone else know of another 'advanced' X terminal program that they use? - Julian --- On Fri, 7/4/08, Peter Besenbruch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Peter Besenbruch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LUAU] Something Linux Related To: LUAU luau@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 10:35 AM I thought I would put in something Linux related. I installed OpenSuse on a Virtualbox machine. It was a network install. It took hours. Part of the problem was that Suse's servers have the bad habit of dying. At least it was easy to recover. I installed KDE4. I was pleasantly surprised; this was the first KDE4 from a distro that I found usable. It was vastly better that Fedora's aborted monstrosity. Another benefit over Fedora, is that Suse's X server actually played well with Virtualbox. I am also playing with a Qemu image of KDE4daily. These are regularly updated versions of KDE4 on Ubuntu (almost daily). I am watching the updates come down as I write. I have seen KDE4.1 go from a painfully slow, crash prone desktop to something improved. It's picked up speed (yes, even on Qemu), and it doesn't crash as much. Sometimes, a new feature will creep in, but I'm still waiting for a decent bookmark tool for Konqueror. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Something Linux Related
So not with KDE4 they've 'cleaned it up' so a lot of the reasons I used it in the first place are gone. They've taken out all the 'Advanced' features. I may as well be using Gnome-Terminal. KDE4 has gotten a little more Gnomish, and that's not a good thing. I'm hoping much of that configurability comes back. Anyone know if I can easily run KDE3's Konsole on a KDE4 based distro? You should be able to run KDE3 and 4 on the same machine. One of the reasons Suse's version of KDE4 is so good is that it incorporates elements of KDE3. I read in the Debian newsletter that Lenny, the upcoming release will not include KDE4. I think that's a good thing. In preparation for the changeover, I have been changing my APT sources to reference Lenny, rather than Testing. KDE 3.5.9 is a really good desktop environment, and I think I want to stick with it for a while yet. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
