On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 22:30 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
<OPINION> If you add the lastest KDE via the kde-redhat project to centos-4 .... or if there were a project that offered to upgrade gnome from 2.8 to another version (say 2.12) .... then you are no longer using centos.
You would have a hodgepodge of programs that are not really enterprise stable, nor really designed to work together. Not that there is anything wrong with that, and Rex does a great job w/ the kde-redhat project ... it is just not that stable on top of CentOS ...
IMO, it's pretty darn stable. Are you privy to information I'm not? Or... perhaps simply your definition of "just not that stable" is different than mine.
---- I've been using it for months with CentOS 4.x and though Quanta+ (kdewebdev) can be a bit touch and go (and I use it extensively), KDE itself has been quite solid (kde-redhat). Once again, I tip my hat to Rex for doing a bang up job.
Then when you consider his up-to-date samba packaging, kde-redhat repo has been a win-win for me. Upstream is really stuck on old versions of samba and openldap.
Obviously upstream is extremely hesitant to version upgrades of packages, especially things like a desktop manager but that doesn't mean you can't take some chances on some systems.
FWIW, I did a clean install of Fedora Core 5 on my main desktop system and all I can say is wow...it's really nice.
Craig