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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Installation Tips
From:       David van Hoose <david-vh () home ! com>
Date:       2000-12-20 4:52:41
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Suzanne Britton wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:25:52AM +0000, Zeljko Vukman wrote:
> 
> > But problem with your approach is the same as in almost every Linux HowTo -
> > you assume that readers are experienced users who already know everything
> > about Linux
> 
> Well, to some extent, that's true. My motto is "find a niche and fill it" :-)
> Giving newbies a full introduction to *nix--text editing, permissions, startup
> files, etc.--is way beyond the scope of what I'm trying to do, and would be
> reinventing the wheel, since there are already perfectly good websites which do
> just that (e.g. LinuxNewbie.org). The audience I'm aiming for are the people
> who are at about the point I was a couple months ago--moderately experienced
> with Linux, but daunted by the sheer complexity of KDE and unsure how to
> properly install it. In particular, I want to counteract the effect of some of
> the bad advice that got me burned (e.g. "use pgcc and -O6, it can't hurt!").
> 
> Frankly, I'm not sure KDE is at the point yet where rank newbies should be
> trying to install it themselves. Not unless it comes pre-packaged with their
> distro.
> 
> However, your comments do bring up a valid point--I should give people a
> more clear warning that I will be presuming a certain amount of background,
> and that if they are total beginners, perhaps a better route is to find a
> distro with a stable KDE 2 pre-installed.

I spent all day upgrading my system from the RedHat rawhide site.
I removed KDE 1.x completely, except for the kde1-compat package and
now most things run well. A lot of KDE programs are still buggy, but
I assume those bugs are also the ones on the hundreds of pages of bugs
I saw on the buglists. Thanks for the advice.

-- 
-Dave
 
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