KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software [LWN.net]

KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

Posted Jan 29, 2009 16:15 UTC (Thu) by eli (guest, #11265)
In reply to: KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software by rahulsundaram
Parent article: KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

I'll be sure to boot into F10 and upgrade when KDE4.2 hits. Hopefully
that experience will be better.

As for RHEL; I hadn't considered that an option since I had mentally
classified it as a "server" distro. Does it work well with current
laptops -- suspend, hibernate, powermanagement, etc?

Thanks for your suggestions!

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KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

Posted Jan 29, 2009 17:26 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

RHEL tends to only backport fixes for selected hardware so support for suspend resume, power management etc tends to lag behind quite a bit compared to Fedora (having rock solid stability and the very latest software isn't really feasible) but RHEL 5.2 + does have some of the latest desktop software include OO.o 3.x, Firefox 3.x etc.

There are tends of thousands of customers using it on their desktop, workstations etc so it not just a server distribution. As a rule of thumb, if you are not using the very latest hardware, it would likely work just fine.

https://hardware.redhat.com/

I would also recommend using the EPEL add-on repository for extra applications.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL