Lamar Owen wrote:
does this exist for CentOS 4 ?
Yes, the EL4 repository works fine on CentOS4.
taking a wild swing, I set up /etc/yum.repos/kde-redhat.repo and for S&G's, I ran the obligatory 'yum update' to see what would happen.
It's an aggressive update to be sure.
Yes, it is.
KDE 3.5.0 (and all the dependent stuff such as qt) but also samba and openoffice.
Is anyone reporting happiness / contentment with their repo enabled and their updates installed?
I use it daily on multiple machines; I have a twin need for the stability of CentOS (update-wise) on one hand, but the features of the later Kstars (part of the 'edutainment' kdeedu package) on the other. Kstars for KDE 3.4 and above has telescope control; see my .sig for why that might be important to me.
The 3.5 update didn't really break much. However, you will have difficulty with things that use the kdesu utility, since, at least with the latest updates, su is asking a second question (about the security context) and that hangs kdesu hard
Ack. I'll have to look into that.
KDE 3.5 is slower, unfortunately, so you don't want to do this on an old machine; the machine needs to be recent and needs to have more than 256MB RAM for sure. On one machine, going from 256MB to 512MB doubled its apparent speed; the further increase to 1GB added another 33% or so on some tasks.
Provided ample RAM, I've personally found kde 3.5 to be subjectively faster (partly due to pkg optimization tweaking).
-- Rex