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Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...



At 08:15 PM 3/3/2003 -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
On March 3, 2003 06:33 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> * Carla Schroder (debian@bratgrrl.com) [030303 20:19]:
> > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > > I guess I didn't read close enough... I went and read up at the
> > > davidpashley site and in it, he has an apt entry for getting
> > > KDE packages. I used that and am running KDE right now.
> > >
> > > Any advantage to using the DEBs from KDE.org instead ??
> > >
> > > Hall
> >
> > In my experience, they are the most stable and trouble-free, and
> > they are completely up-to-date. I'm running KDE 3.1 right now
> > from kde.org, it's very nice. I don't use the KDE desktop itself,
> > as I like IceWM, but I use a lot of KDE apps. 3.1 is a pretty big
> > leap from 3.0, I'm very pleased with it.
> >
> > The main thing is to use only one source, mixing them up will
> > cause big troubles! I mixed sources, and ended up manually
> > removing all KDE pieces, and starting over. That was, er, less
> > than fun. ;-)
>
> I'm running SID or unstable. Is anyone using the KDE.org DEB
> packages on SID ??
>
> Thanks
> Hall

If you're running SID you're better off using the KDE in unstable.
It's  compiled with GCC 3.2 so it will be faster than the one from
kde.org...

Good thing I decided to be patient then... I just about removed all of the KDE packages I got from the SID repository and was going to replace with the KDE.org ones. I'll leave things alone now.

Hall



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