{"id":1377,"date":"2005-05-11T04:08:47","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T02:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/3-distros-and-kde\/"},"modified":"2005-05-11T04:08:47","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T02:08:47","slug":"3-distros-and-kde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/3-distros-and-kde\/","title":{"rendered":"3 distros and KDE."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fedora<\/a>
\n I downloaded a trial version of the new VMware 5.0<\/a>
\nsince my favorite computer magazine<\/a> wrote me it would be good,
\nand it all works just fine. To test it all, I downloaded iso images of Fedora Core 3<\/a>, SuSE Linux 9.2<\/a>
\nand Kubuntu Linux<\/a> to have a look at what KDE looks like in
\ndifferent distros. <\/p>\n

Fedora Core<\/strong> pleased my eyecandy fetish with a good looking graphical
\ninstall, and had a quite polished overall appearance although a couple of things really annoyed me.
\nIt didn’t seem to remember that I would login into KDE but instead held GNOME as default. Yum, which
\nis supposed to be the online update tool did quite a bad job, it would take hours just to parse the
\ndependencies of all packages only to tell me that I’m out of diskspace. Trying to remove a couple of
\npackages which I wouldn’t need anyway, it wanted me to first install a couple of others. Oh well,
\nguess it must be me …
\n SuSE<\/strong> also was quite polished and much more a native<\/em> KDE
\ndistro, with all necessary tools integrated into kcontrol. The installer looked much less polished
\nthan Fedora’s, it chose text-mode to do all necessary stuff, but that’s really only a cosmetical
\nthing. What also striked me is that it needed much more interaction than the others and left me with
\na couple of necessary things left to do (setup network, setup X, both with graphical tools at
\nleast).
\n Kubuntu<\/strong> finally, which was actually the distro I began with installed
\nfast and smooth, needed only one CD iso (FC3 needed 3, SuSE was installed from a 3.2GB DVD iso since
\nthe netinstall wouldn’t work (segfault in early boot)). Everything went fine during the install and
\neven updating to the development release Breezy Badger<\/em> was fairly easy.<\/p>\n

Guess I’ll keep Kubuntu then, which is what I’m running on my workstation anyway. Still
\nnice to see what other distros offer and that the grass is not always greener on the other<\/em>
\nside. :-) (Although it would really come handy to have the PyKDE toolchain fixed<\/a> at some point …)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I downloaded a trial version of the new VMware 5.0 since my favorite computer magazine wrote me it would be good, and it all works just fine. To test it all, I downloaded iso images of Fedora Core 3, SuSE Linux 9.2 and Kubuntu Linux to have a look at what KDE looks like in… Continue reading 3 distros and KDE.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}