[clue-talk] Alternative KDE distro

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From: "Michael Irons" <michael at beckonsmeby.com> 
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Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2010 2:26:38 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Re: [clue-talk] Alternative KDE distro 





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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Arch supports the latest KDE. If you are concerned about packages, you can look on the Arch Linux site to see if they have what you need. A lot of packages are part of the Arch User Repository (AUR) and require you to use the Arch Build System (ABS) to build and install them. That is usually pretty easy. 
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