Best KDE based distro?

There's always 3 levels:

stable - released.
testing - packages frozen.
unstable - where new versions of stuff goes.

Every couple of years testing becomes stable, and a copy of unstable is moved to testing.

Codenames:
etch (version4) - went stable ages ago.
lenny (version5) - recently gone stable.
squeeze - recent snapshot of unstable, now in testing.
sid - unstable is always called sid, it will never move to testing.
 
Oxy said:
Im gonna stick with Arch after all that lol, must say KDE 4.2 is good, like it a lot. Seems more modern than Gnome.
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lol nice one.... :D (ill give debain a propper raz at some point).

Yeah Gnome hasnt really seemed to change recently (reminds me of windows xp style in a strange way)
 
BigglesPiP said:
That's stable, not squeeze, or sid.
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get that, install and then add the squeeze and/or sid repos. apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade. you now have debian squeeze / sid. AFAIK, there is no squeeze / sid install cds.

pingwing said:
lol nice one.... :D (ill give debain a propper raz at some point).
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Debian is ok - I ditched Arch on my main box to try it out (I've been using Arch since Noodle and IMHO, it's going down hill). Main problems I have with it: even the "expert" installer holds your hand too much and autoconfigures everything (which in my setup is not good). Almost everything is *old* - even on sid... the nvidia driver in the repositories is version 173!. The kernel is built with a different version of gcc than the distro ships with (4.1 as opposed to 4.3), so it's either drop down to 4.1 or recompile the kernel with 4.3 (this kind of stuff is basic... I mean - who ships a distro like this?).

At least it has a decent package management system and it's not rpm (I really, really don't like rpm!).

That all said, it's worth trying out, as different people have different needs / tastes.
 
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Hows Arch going down hill? What are you using atm?

I don't really no much about distro's road map.

Arch install was possible for me when they introduced nano in the installer, vi makes my brain hurt lol
 
I'd always recommend Debian (I love it) however it's not KDE based,GNOME is it's default desktop manager (and it's far far better anyhow!).

Personally I'd say go for the default Debian install (and go for Lenny it's been rock solid for me) and just install helper KDE apps (like the wifi manager).

Debian Lenny, at the moment, is by far and away the best Linux flavour available.
 
yashiro said:
How is Arch going downhill?
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Oxy said:
Hows Arch going down hill? What are you using atm?

I don't really no much about distro's road map.
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There's a few resons really, but the one that sticks out the most for me is (again, it's just my opinion - so don't flame me) that it seems that the packages are less stable and every other update breaks something - and yes, I know that this is part of using a "bleeding edge" distro, but it genuinely seems that things are breaking more often in Arch than they used to... For example - there was an update last week or the week before that broke man!!

Arch caught my attention for longer than any other distro so far (I've used SuSE / OpenSuSE, Mandrake / Mandriva, Gentoo, Sabayon, Slackware, Knoppix, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL and Arch to name but a few), mostly because of it's flexibility, ease of use and the fact that it has quite a decent package management system. Admittedly - I haven't given up on it completely and may return to it... especially as I really don't think that Debian (which is what I now have on my main rig) is going to keep my attention for too long. I think my next OS is going to be either freebsd or opensolaris.

Noodle was circa 2006 (I think), followed by Don't Panic (my favourite name... every time one of my boxes booted... a bright, yet friendly "Don't Panic" as init loaded :)), followed by Core Dump (current).
 
nah dont i'm not gonna flame anyway, thats the beauty of linux, choosing whats best for you.

I have heard about some broken packages, maybe it was from you on a diff thread a few months ago.

I have got one with arch more than anyother liinux os, its fast. It has taught me loads since i started, im now confident using the terminal & dont even think to use the GUI to do things when I return to ubuntu on a laptop. (dunno if thats a good thing :p)

Archs wiki pages are amazing though :p

Funny you should say about FreeBSD, i'm downloading it now :p
 
People who switch to Linux seem to retain the 'switcher' attitude and often flip flop between distros. Usually switching when the one they're using breaks or doesn't cause them enough drama. :)

I had a chew on with an old machine getting Debian to work via Wireless.
Sorted it and it's problem free since. You'd think after I sorted it I'd leave it be, right? No.
I wiped it and put Xubuntu 9.04 on it. Heh.
 
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TBH, I'm already bored of old packages in Debian. And KDE is loosing its appeal compared to my XFCE desktop at work.

I'm going to try Xubuntu 9.04 on my EEE when it is released in late April.
 
I have never been a fan of SuSE, I myself have always edged towards Mandrake.

However a couple of years ago, they lost if for me and I ended up going with Ubuntu and this had irritated me because I hate GNOME and I hate Debian based distros ( Dunno why other than I do )
But recently, I have started to like OpenSuSE a lot more... In fact SuSE 10.3 is on my HP ZD8000 LapTop and its the only one I have found that lets me play at 1440x900 on my seemingly knackered screen?

Only one issue I have with it right now is that I cannot get it to use my Broadcom Wireless yet, but its half way there...

So, at this time, I would have to put OpenSuse in front... But only v10 as v11 uses KDE 4 and I feel thats simply not stable enough for the desktop yet.
 
hhhmmm I actually really like KDE 4 lol, not tried it until this week, really impressed. Only annoyance I have found is that it cant do dual monitors yet.

gonna try kdemod tonight
 
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