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GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released
BSD Forums writes "The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.1 "Daddy Walrus", is now available. FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke has ported this release (2.3) on FreeBSD and is looking for your testing help. Also, the KDE Project announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.1.2, a maintenance release for the third generation of this UNIX desktop."
I totally agree with you on this one. I was a die hard RH fan up till 8.0 came out. Within days I grabbed a copy of SuSE 8.1 and haven't looked back ever since. I still believe the RH makes a good distro, but I really did not like how they mangled KDE and the ability to easily customize it.
-Cnik
In RH9 they screwed up the KDE panel, the Icons look really bad when you set the panel size to "small". This bug was not in vanilla KDE. They also insist on changing all the KDE panel contents every time I log in. I have four Linux boxes at home running on NFS/NIS. When I log in to RH9 on the server, it does something to my Desktop customizations. I then log in to RH7.3 in my room and the vanilla KDE is screwed up because RH9 has "upgraded" me to their KDE flavour.
The solution appeared to me to upgrade all four boxes to the same level, and I was pissed off enough at RedHat to have gone to SuSE instead. Why? Because their KDE does not suck as much, and because all of their system configuration tools are written in Qt, which makes them consistent with the rest of the desktop.
I know that this is getting off topic, but I also would like to mention that SuSE is cheaper (the Pro version), comes with great documentation, and supports ALSA. Also, RH9 did not recognize my TV card on setup, but SuSE did - more points for SuSE. And another thing - SuSE employes KDE coders, so I would rather compensate them by purchasing the SuSE Linux.
Paul.