Hello there, Like many of you have seen in many mailing lists, suse/opensuse users and contributors are disgusted. Here, these users/contributors are mostly pro-kde, it's normal because it's suse. However some/these contributors are in search of another distro who supports KDE. Since Fedora Project already started working on UnleashKDE and will be looking for community fedora KDE contributors, I feel we need to market more on Fedora's KDE status and community contributors are respected! The idea came when a friend of mine, - a KDE contributor who spends time writing documentation and do french translation - user of opensuse suddenly seriously looking for another distro who supports KDE. People like him would be useful for the fedora community !! What do you think about it ? Any plans to make fedora benefit from this ? Even if you are not a KDE user, you can still have your say,huh! chitlesh -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

Maxime Carron wrote: > Some KDE users have left Fedora, because fedora was including a too old > KDE. Can you be more specific? What version of Fedora didnt include the latest KDE at that time? > The second point is : KDE is 1 block on fedora. Just few big packages. > KDE-base, KDE-network, includes most of the basic applications > (konqueror, kopete, konversation, ...) > Splitting up packages can make it harder for maintenance. Some of the packages under review are being evaluated to do this however.

Le samedi 04 novembre 2006 à 21:29 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > Maxime Carron wrote: >> Some KDE users have left Fedora, because fedora was including a too old >> KDE. > Can you be more specific? What version of Fedora didnt include the > latest KDE at that time? > >> The second point is : KDE is 1 block on fedora. Just few big packages. >> KDE-base, KDE-network, includes most of the basic applications >> (konqueror, kopete, konversation, ...) >> > Splitting up packages can make it harder for maintenance. Of course, but splitted packages are easier to use. What do we care about ? users or packagers ? I prefer GNOME, but I know that KDE's packaging in fedora is one thing that makes me use GNOME as well.

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 08:13 +0000, Karlie Robinson wrote: > did you all see this about suse? > > Microsoft backs Novell's Linux platform > http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/11/03/microsoft.novell.ap/index.html If this is the first time seeing this, you should check out Red Hat's responses here: http://www.redhat.com/promo/believe/ http://www.redhat.com/truthhappens/ Bravo Red Hat!

Ideologically that divisiveness between Linux users is bad. Practically, none of the distributions have enough market enough to be worth it compared to Windows or even better people who havent used computers yet.