Hey Kurt, I just wanted to give a big shout-out to you and the rest of the
KDE folk for giving us a kick-ass desktop GUI environment.  I really
appreciate all the work that you've done and I'm looking forward to where
the KDE project goes in the future.  Keep it up!
Take care,
~M


On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Kurt Granroth wrote:

> On Monday 15 April 2002 08:26 pm, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > Any one have any suggestion as to which distro best supports KDE desktop?
> >  I'm ready to give up on Red Hat as my whole system now makes a Windows
> > 95 box look stable since I put KDE 3.0 on it and Red Hat refuses to make
> > "official" RPM's available.
>
> Officially, we have to say that all distros are created equal (with the
> exception of RH which always screws up KDE packages).. but privately, we
> think that the best BY FAR is SuSE.  Second would be Mandrake.  I'd guess
> that a good 80% of all KDE developers use one of the two.
>
> Distros like Caldera and the new Lycroris and upcoming Xandros
> (<disclaimer>I am now working for them</disclaimer>) have very nice, very
> well put together installations of KDE.. but they aren't bleeding edge.  If
> you want 3.0, you'll have a wait a bit with them.
>
> The Debian packages tend to be alright.. when they finally come out!  Don't
> hold your breath about any being made anytime soon, though.
>
> RedHat doesn't support KDE, plain and simple.  The vast majority of
> packaging-related bug reports come from RH packages.  I could never in good
> conscience recommend that any home (deskto) user of Linux use RH.  There
> are just so many other ones that are far better.
> --
> Kurt Granroth - "KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop"
> KDE Developer/Evangelist | granroth@kde.org
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