fuzzylizard Posted October 29, 2002 Report Share Posted October 29, 2002 2003 will be the strong year for Linux on Desktop, that's for sure. I imagine KDE 3.x + glibc 2.3 + Kernel 2.6 + ALSA 0.9 + XFree86 4.3 will provide one of the smoothest desktop experience ever. And if fontconfig works really good, both KDE and Gnome will be benefited from this and might rival other OS as strong desktop contender. I can't wait. I completely agree with you. It is going to be amazing to see what Linux will become over the course of the next year as all the new technology gets integrated into the various distros. Next summer - with the release of 2.6/3.0 - should be a very exciting time. I can't wait for RH 9 and ML 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 29, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2002 "but I imagine changes will be coming now that others can learn from what Red Hat did. And KDE 3.1 will probably embed Xft in the official release." When that happens I will be switching back to Mandrake. Better distro except for the fonts IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest itti Posted October 29, 2002 Report Share Posted October 29, 2002 what about this tcpa-chip thing? how might it take influence on the evolution of linux (especially on desktop)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shegar Posted October 30, 2002 Report Share Posted October 30, 2002 i just got rid of redhat after 8.0 because of the cute new look. and i have beeen a redhat fan for a while. i just didnt like the way that they made all the desktops the same. i really preferd the pure kde and gnome look and feel. i also didnt like that the install took better than an hour and still had to spend another 1/2 hour after that just tweaking x to run. dont get me wrong redhat is a good distro, but since i made the switch i dont know if ill go back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted October 30, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2002 Check out the Mandrake Tools (mostly found in the control panel). I think you will be surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted October 30, 2002 Report Share Posted October 30, 2002 i just got rid of redhat after 8.0 because of the cute new look. and i have beeen a redhat fan for a while. i just didnt like the way that they made all the desktops the same. i really preferd the pure kde and gnome look and feel. Yea, I am still using RH7.3 for those exact reasons - and the fact that some of the software that I want to run is not certified for 8.0. Although, I must admit that Mandrake 9.0 is very tempting. I just don't know if I want to setup Linux again. I have so many extra programs installed that I don't know if I want to go through the trouble of reinstalling them. I have also tweaked kde to just the way that I like it. I think the solution is that I need a different computer for each distro so that I can play with them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest smoketoomuch Posted October 31, 2002 Report Share Posted October 31, 2002 what about this tcpa-chip thing? how might it take influence on the evolution of linux (especially on desktop)? Here is a link for links to relevant pages and some questions I pondered about the issue: http://www.napsterites.net/underground/sho...?threadid=13784 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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