[RULE] kde-kdrive combined

[Richard Kweskin]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:51:10 -0400
Michael Fratoni <mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net> wrote:

> Richard,
> I had a quick look at the install reports. One question, I saw you 
> manually created the tiny X link and installed the startx script from the 
> ISO on one machine. This shouldn't be required. The installer should 
> handle this for you when you select the TinyX package. If that isn't the 
> case, please let me know. (on the slinky ISO, see 
> install/stage2/second_stage_scripts/tinyX.post.sh) It also creates scripts 
> to recreate and restore the stock configuration in /root/scripts.
> 
> snip

Hello Michael and everyone

The manual intervention was only done because the TinyX package was NOT selected.
Instead XFree86 and kde packages were selected. Kdrive's Xvesa was added afterwards
(and the links & scripts were applied.)

The exercise was to see how kde 3.1 performed with kdrive on a box with a clunky 2 MB
graphics card (1995 vintage) and 64 MB of main memory. It is surprisingly good,
some wait starting kde but even on another much faster box kde takes some time.

Why? KDE has been good to Greeks. Haven't tried Gnome2x but back in Redhat 7.x
only kde worked in Greek out of the box. Otherwise, konqueror, kmail, kppp, kwrite
make life very easy for those not prepared to deal with non-gui stuff.

Lastly, Slinky (quite correctly in my opinion) does not bother offering kde or gnome
options when the TinyX option is selected. The other test *was* with the TinyX option
and the tinyx.post script works great, Michael, thank you!

Richard


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