Steven R. Hatfield wrote: > Not to start some kind of religious war or anything, but considering all > of the funky compiler antics that RedHat has been pulling for the last 2 > releases, the reported difficulties of Debian based distributions, etc etc - > what is considered to be the "best" Linux distribution as far as KDE > installation and "smooth running" is concerned? Debatable issue. I've got RH5.0 running here and haven't had any problems getting KDE up and running on it. I think the only hitch that I ran into at all was when I wanted to install Beta-4 and had to recompile the QT libraries myself. Since the 1.0 release, however, haven't had any quirks with it at all; downloaded all the tarballs, rebuilt, installed, and was up and running smoothly. Aside from the compiler quirks that RH has been screwing up on people, though, I do have a personal preference for RH. Theirs was the first distribution that I tried with package management and it made enough of a difference that I've stuck with it since RH3.0.3. I will admit, however, that I am avoiding the 5.1 release; both the latest versions of GCC (2.8.0) and EGCS admit that their compilers are buggy and even have problems compiling kernels on some machines. Think it was a stupid move to include a "known to have problems with the kernel" compiler in a full-fledged distribution. Just MHO though. -- Graham TerMarsch // ----------------------------------------------------------------- // Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot? // ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral