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