Red Hat Linux
Jun. 20th, 2003 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hyuriwell, I finally got KDE up and running with DRI, downloaded the Acqua theme I like; separated the app menu and the taskbar/systray/pager/clock into 2 panels; figured out some of the kernel problems I've been having; recompiled 2.4.21 and 2.5.72...
and reached the conclusion that I really detest Red Hat. I've been fighting the idea since I spent 3 hours sorting out package dependencies while trying to keep disk usage down. I really wanted to like it after all the problems I've had with Slackware, but I just can't. the last straw was discovering that, in order to get the Mac OS-style menu bar, I'd have to recompile kde-libs -- and isn't the whole point of a packaged distribution to avoid recompiling major packages to add a simple feature? and Slackware has that menu bar in its default build.
so I'm going to reinstall Slackware 9; maybe something got corrupted last time and that's what caused all the pnglib problems.
and reached the conclusion that I really detest Red Hat. I've been fighting the idea since I spent 3 hours sorting out package dependencies while trying to keep disk usage down. I really wanted to like it after all the problems I've had with Slackware, but I just can't. the last straw was discovering that, in order to get the Mac OS-style menu bar, I'd have to recompile kde-libs -- and isn't the whole point of a packaged distribution to avoid recompiling major packages to add a simple feature? and Slackware has that menu bar in its default build.
so I'm going to reinstall Slackware 9; maybe something got corrupted last time and that's what caused all the pnglib problems.