[clue-talk] Alternative KDE distro

[Michael Irons]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Brian Gibson <bwg1974 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Does OpenSUSE count as SUSE?  Try the minimalist route with LFS, Arch or
> Gentoo, and build KDE4; then again it depends on how much administration you
> want to do on your own system.
>
>
Thanks, Brian

OpenSUSE is actually what I meant. I am hesitant, but open to it.
I learned linux on Fedora/Redhat, but in there recent releases KDE is an
afterthought.


I actually used gentoo several years ago and loved it.  It is by far my
favorite distro, but it was impractical to my needs with its long build
times. (KDE takes forever. I sure it is a lot better now, but KDE 3.X took 3
days on my PII 350) Anybody have an idea what it takes on a more modern
processor? If it is sane, I may go back to it.

I just saw Arch and I am looking into it, but I from everything I have
read..It has some problems due to lack of developers... although the
developers they have are supposedly good. And yes that is hearsay, but that
is all I have to go on at the moment.


> KDE's website lists the following: http://www.kde.org/trykde/
> Since Debian, Kubuntu, and Fedora are out, that leaves Mandriva and PLD.
>
>

I briefly tried Mandriva a sometime ago, but was not impressed. Maybe it has
changed. Never heard of PLD. It looks interesting, I will look into it.


So... PLD, Gentoo, Sidux, Arch, any others? Experiences, good or bad?

Thanks,

Mike Irons
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