From kde-devel Tue Oct 26 14:21:01 2004 From: "Sylvain \"Skarsnik\" Colinet" Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:21:01 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: KDE Linux/BSD distribution Message-Id: <903bdef204102607217aea850f () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=109880090222070 On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:47:53 +0000, Jonas Widarsson wrote: > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 13.27, Simone Gotti wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 15:14, N. Thompson wrote: > > > I didn't like Yoper, like many of the current KDE based distributions > > > [...] > > > enhancements and software that hasn't made it into the official KDE > > > branch yet. > > > > You have described gentoo... > > > > Bye! > I use gentoo linux for everything now. > It is perfectly flexible for a "power user". > (Which linux user aren't after a while?...) > > Someone might complain about complexity when installing gentoo, but I believe > the nature of linux demands such flexibility. > > It is not possible to streamline a project like KDE or a general linux > distribution for "ease of use" without tampering with the flexibility > originally offered. Then we (probably) always end up with hard to maintain > branches of the original projects. > > The sources of all these projects are often very flexible, which is why the > gentoo model probably is least in your way. The open fashion of open source > makes streamlining a limit. > > So, to provide linux for linux newbies, or KDE for KDE newbies, the best way > is to just let them start reading and gain some knowledge. > > But go ahead, you... Noone will stop you. Just try Gentoo first. > http://www.gentoo.org/ > > (Note: Eh... I don't know much about slackware...) > (Note2: I don't believe a platform is very complete with only KDE installed.) > I try gentoo on my ibook. Damed !, need near 2 days for compiling kde environement, so when I update a month later, 3 days for the entire system. I thinks it's not a good distribution for users, newbies or not -- Sylvain "Skarsnik" Colinet Victory was near but the power of the ring couldn't be undone >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<