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