On Friday 29 October 2004 09:03 am, Rex Dieter wrote:
> These days, IMO, that attitude is about 95% FUD.
>
> People gripe about redhat omitting certain kde features(*), but it's
> only because they *have* to, legality reasons mostly.
>
> (*) namely mp3 support and trademarked items

No, I cant agree with that.  Almost all distros take out mp3 codecs and there 
is nothing stopping redhat supplying trademarked items provided the items 
licence allows it just like the other distros do.
RedHat buries KDE as a non standard install feature to a degree that most new 
users dont even know that KDE comes with RedHat.
That however is not the real gripe. RedHat and its community core has either 
deliberately or inadvertently created the slowest most unwieldy KDE that has 
ever existed to the point that anyone running RH would not consider kde 
particularly viable compared to Gnome. When you are talking about load and 
response speeds of upto 20:1 slower comparing RH KDE to say Mandrake or 
Knoppix then something is severely amiss. If then getting an independently 
compiled RH KDE or compiling your own makes a big difference then it 
certainly makes one think.


-- 
regards,
andrew
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