[OT] Google Trends - slightly more OT

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon May 15 10:10:56 UTC 2006


David-Paul Niner wrote:
> On Sunday 14 May 2006 12:31 pm, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 01:18, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>>> I can't see any downside to Red Hat offering a sub-$100/annual version
>>>> of their EL system for home use.   Ditch the support options if
>>>> necessary and just provide updates from RHN.
>>>>
>>>> It seems like a lost revenue stream to me.   Is there something very
>>>> basic I'm overlooking?
>>> How would this be better than Fedora?
>> The code is better-tested before initial release (mostly coming
>> from late in a fedora cycle), then supported with updates
>> for 7 years.  For servers this is *much* better because the
>> server software is mostly feature-complete and you don't
>> want to have to reinstall them all the time.  However,
>> Centos has pretty much filled this need with their free
>> rebuild from the source rpms and free update support.
>>
>> For desktops you probably have to put up with the fast
>> fedora release cycle because the desktop and application
>> software is still evolving rapidly.  But it's too bad that
>> you have to replace working kernel and device driver versions
>> with new and experimental ones just to get a current version
>> of evolution, OOo, and firefox.
>>
> 
> My desktop machine is partitioned into an FC 5 and a RHEL 4 install.  I'm 
> currently trying to get the latest KDE (3.5.2) x86_64 installed correctly via 
> yum 2.4 (the latest version which runs on RHEL w/o upgrading Python) on the 
> RHEL4 installation.
> 
> Does anyone know of a working repository for this?  I can create a repo file 
> for the kde-redhat repository but if barfs continually on missing 
> dependencies.
> 
> Any pointers or success stories would be appreciated.

Is this the repo file you're using?
http://apt.kde-redhat.org/kde-redhat/kde-redhat/redhat/kde-redhat.repo

Paul.




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