On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Sampath Inturi wrote: > Hi All, > > Here are the download numbers, from download.opensuse.org. > In the first 30 hours after the release openSUSE redirected the > traffic to akamai instead to the mirror servers. So what had openSUSE > this time?
A major shift in it's licensing? > Total downloads: 172 TB! .... snip ... These numbers look great. I too downloaded the x86 and x86_64 DVD plus non-OSS supplement CD and installed them on both 32 and 64 bit systems. BUT user beware, especially if you are a KDE user. By default it installs KDE 4.1.3. Your settings from KDE 3.5.x to KDE 4.1 are not migrated automatically. You have to copy stuff from ~/.kde tree to the ~/.kde4 tree. In Kontact, the only data that was seamlessly accessed were the mail folder (~/Mail) no magic there and the address book. To avoid re-entering several POP3 and SMTP auth userid/passwords, simply copied .kde to .kde4. On surface, KMail works but the "saved" password is good only for the login session. If I log out and log back, fire up Kontact, KMail complains that the password is rejected by the POP3/SMTP server. I have to re-enter the password(s) all over again! My KDE 4.1.x experience is with openSUSE 11.1 only - have not tried Kubuntu 8.10. Not sure whether it is a distro or KDE problem. If any one else has a different experience I would like to hear from them about how they set up KMail. -- Arun Khan
