Re: GNOME or KDE or Other?

[Edward Lukacs <eml fermi usno navy mil>]

I am running 6.1 on a 533 MHz SX, 128MB ram, and Elsa Gloria Synergy
(8mb) video card.  I had exactly the same problem with KDE, ultimately
removing the Gnome entry as below, but -- get this -- keeping all the
Gnome stuff!  Now it still locks up periodically and then I usually can
log in from the HP9000 next to it and kill the session on the Alpha.

I suspect that KDE is not 64 bit clean or was not carefully debugged
for Alpha because it's rock solid on Pentiums (also RH 6.1).  I also
suspect that RedHat's installation program (which sure tries to FORCE
the unwitting user into Gnome) may well be at fault.  In fact, the 
install is usually the single buggiest thing Red Hat has supplied 
over the years...

Regards,

Ed Lukacs

Linux since '93.
Cogito ergo careo fenestras.

> 
> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > 
> > SteveCraft wrote:
> > >
> > > Finally got my RH6.2 setup going.  Now am wondering which is more
> > > popular/stable out there in AXP-land - GNOME or K?
> > 
> > Not a clue which one is more popular.  KDE is plain broken.  It has a
> > built-in ability to what it looks like to crash a video hardware (yes,
> > this seems to be not an X server but on a lower level).  After this will
> > happen you will have no keyboard and no mouse although a network
> > connection, if exists, still should be good enough to login and reboot
> > (you will have hurry before this opportunity will die too).
> > 
> > Removing "Gnome" entry from KDE menus will change the situation from
> > "on demand" to "random, with no apparent reason".
> > 
> > NOT using Enlightement window manager with Gnome is a very fine idea. :-)
> > I did not try Helix latest stuff yet.
> > 
> 
> Are you saying this for RH6.2 only? I use KDE on RH6.0/6.1
> and it's worked fine. Graphics cards were permedia2, Matrox
> Millenium I, and ATI Rage II's. Maybe it's an interaction
> with specific HW, not necessarily just the graphics card.
> Note I use NO sound on any of my systems as I've found sound
> to be the most flakey thing in Linux. (YMMV)
> 
> 
> Wes
> 
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