[CLUE-Tech] Escape from RH 8.0

[Chris N. Brown]

On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:06 pm, Jed S. Baer's keyboard spoke thus:
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I'm not sure if the original question about de-idioting RedHat 8 was ever 
answered before this thread turned into a deb/gentoo/mandrake vs RedHat 
thread, but I remember back when RH8 was originally released, there was quite 
a bit of discussion on the Bluecurve interface in the press.  The last thing 
that I ever read about it was basically either you loved it or you hated it 
(and it looks like you hate it).

Now, having said that (and Jed, you indicated that you might be willing to use 
the kde interface with RedHat 8), I suggest checking out the following site:

http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

There are some very simple instructions there about getting KDE (in this case, 
3.0.5a) installed on RedHat 8 using Apt of all things.  I did this on my 
redHat 7.3 system and it works very very well, and certainly keeps me from 
going into dependency-hell that RPM can cause.  Additionally, using this site 
to install KDE will give you back some of the things that RedHat 8 took away 
(like MP3 and MPEG support, etc).  Also, kdenetwork package will install 
kppp, which I find a very easy to use PPP interface.  I'e use it to dial into 
our internal network as well as to use my ricochet modem :-)

Good luck, 
-Chris

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