on 10-21-2008 10:45 AM kevin kempter spake the following: > > On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Scott Silva wrote: > >> on 10-21-2008 10:14 AM nate spake the following: >>> kevin kempter wrote: >>>> HI LIst; >>>> >>>> What version of KDE is included in the latest version of CentOS ? >>> >>> http://www.centos.org/ >>> >>> "The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.2. >>> Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include: >>> >>> These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, >>> Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.3, Evolution-2.12, Firefox-3.0, >>> Thunderbird-2.0, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1." >>> >>> >>>> Also, is there a way to get KDE4 in CentOS ? If so, Can I have both >>>> KDE3.x and KDE4 installed and switch back and forth between the 2 >>>> versions if needed ? >>> >>> I think it should be possible as long as they are installed in >>> different locations, e.g. compile everything from source and install >>> to /usr/local/kde4 or something. >>> >>> nate >> But if you break it you get to keep all the pieces! >> > > y, that's my biggest concern ... > If you HAVE to have the latest KDE, CentOS is not the best distribution for you. Enterprise distros are designed for stable longevity, and adding the latest and greatest every few months would just break it. You can get away with changing smaller pieces sometimes, like Openoffice or Firefox, but KDE and Gnome are pretty deeply intertwined into the base OS libs and would be real easy to break. If you want new and shiny,and don't mind re-imaging desktops once or twice a year, you can use Fedora or Ubuntu, with their fast and liberal development cycles. If you want something that will be safe and stable for the life of the hardware, with one install and only security updates, CentOS is a better fit. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081021/00d39191/attachment-0004.sig>