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JCK

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May 11, 2004
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Rami said:
As long as your on linux then your ok:p
I am not going back to the dark side even though I am posting from an XP machine now :oops:

But this I had to because my other computer is just waiting for energy to do the gentoo process again.

Have you ever tried it?
 

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V

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Jun 8, 2005
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mikhail said:
http://www.kde.org/download/
Looks like it's under 200MB. Substantial if you're on dial-up, but not really otherwise.
thank you. that sounds reasonable. the elapsed time makes no difference to me, the amount of data does since i can only downloand and upload a combined 5gb per month.
 

V

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Rami said:
I remeber I once sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop, the archieves size was around 340MB...
what did you get with it? i mean which kde apps, if any did you get?
 

Rami

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Dec 24, 2004
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Jeeks said:
I am not going back to the dark side even though I am posting from an XP machine now :oops:

But this I had to because my other computer is just waiting for energy to do the gentoo process again.

Have you ever tried it?
No not yet, but will in the near future...Some guys recommended CentOS so I decided to give ia shot..
 

Martin

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Dec 31, 2000
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CentOS is just Red Hat Enterprise Linux but for free. Very similar to Fedora, only Fedora is more daring, experimental and cutting edge.
 

Rami

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Dec 24, 2004
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vlatko said:
what did you get with it? i mean which kde apps, if any did you get?
Yes you get apps, but not like the clean installation of Kubuntu, some will be missing....I also once did the opposite, installed Kubuntu and apt-get (ed) Ubuntu. It was far from perfect, I had lots of things missing from my system menu, such as printing, login window. device manager among others.
 

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Rami said:
Yes you get apps, but not like the clean installation of Kubuntu, some will be missing....I also once did the opposite, installed Kubuntu and apt-get (ed) Ubuntu. It was far from perfect, I had lots of things missing from my system menu, such as printing, login window. device manager among others.
that doesn't sound promising. i really like KDE more and i would use it, but don't know why it just doesn't work to well on my pc. ethernet gives me most problems. after installing kubuntu dapper it actually managed to mess up how my ethernet card works in windows. have no problems with ubuntu and gnome, but gnome is kinda dull imo.
 

Rami

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Dec 24, 2004
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Martin said:
CentOS is just Red Hat Enterprise Linux but for free. Very similar to Fedora, only Fedora is more daring, experimental and cutting edge.
I am not really familiar with the RH environment, I had enough experience with SUSE and Ubuntu thus far, so I decided to go with something Red-Hatty....to your pleasure, I will giving Gentoo a try after CentOS;)
 

Martin

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Dec 31, 2000
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:D

Red Hat was the first really organized non-hacker kind of distro. Mandrake (now Mandriva), Suse and many others forked Red Hat a long time ago. After Red Hat Linux 9, they decided to stop putting out these desktop releases and instead focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This is where Fedora was born, to follow up on their "for the people" product. With this move Red Hat lost a lot of desktop users who switched to other distros. Meanwhile, Red Hat has the most corporate appeal, it's the #1 distro on servers. And in many ways it's still the standard for linux, so if you tell people you know linux, they halfway expect you to know "the Red Hat way".
 

Rami

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Dec 24, 2004
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vlatko said:
that doesn't sound promising. i really like KDE more and i would use it, but don't know why it just doesn't work to well on my pc. ethernet gives me most problems. after installing kubuntu dapper it actually managed to mess up how my ethernet card works in windows. have no problems with ubuntu and gnome, but gnome is kinda dull imo.
Gnome can be exciting if you want it to be;)


Give it a try, you have nothing to loose. Install KDE using apt-get (or aptitude), if things didn't add up, then decide if you want to do a clean install of Kubuntu.
 

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Rami said:
Gnome can be exciting if you want it to be;)


Give it a try, you have nothing to loose. Install KDE using apt-get (or aptitude), if things didn't add up, then decide if you want to do a clean install of Kubuntu.
yeah gnome is ok, but i can't help it, i'm just drawn to kde. :p will see what i'm gonna do. thnx
 

Rami

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Dec 24, 2004
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Martin said:
:D

Red Hat was the first really organized non-hacker kind of distro. Mandrake (now Mandriva), Suse and many others forked Red Hat a long time ago. After Red Hat Linux 9, they decided to stop putting out these desktop releases and instead focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This is where Fedora was born, to follow up on their "for the people" product. With this move Red Hat lost a lot of desktop users who switched to other distros. Meanwhile, Red Hat has the most corporate appeal, it's the #1 distro on servers. And in many ways it's still the standard for linux, so if you tell people you know linux, they halfway expect you to know "the Red Hat way".
One of the reasons I decided to try out CentOS...
 

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