[olug] Progeny is a virus . . . . . ?!?

Jon thechunk at home.com
Wed Aug 29 22:51:34 UTC 2001


In all honesty the two operate very well together in my experience.  I personally like the clean feel of KDE but I am very impressed with the strides gnome is making.  I hope two desktops continue into the future.  

-Jon

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:41:24PM -0700, Dan DeVries wrote:
> correction I realized you can add progeny packages to
> your apt.source to get the newest packages from them.
> And before a flame war starts about Gnome vs. KDE I'm
> thinking of moving to KDE.
> --- Dan DeVries <ddevries2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Well, Progeny has worked good for me. I like the
> > newer
> > Xserver, the install is good, of course I've only
> > installed once. 
> > Also, Debian's Gnome is old! I can't just apt-get
> > the
> > newer Gnome but Progeny has it.  Although Prongeny
> > uses GRUB which takes some getting use to but its
> > been
> > weeks since a reboot for some new hardware I
> > believe.
> > I should just go back to lilo 
> > The only complaint would be to get the 2.4 Kernel in
> > the stable version. I know Adrian Bunk has packages
> > from the unstable but I want to test it for a week
> > when I get my parts for my development system. I'm
> > talking about a workstation that shouldn't be
> > unstable.
> > 
> > But use what works for you (as long as it isn't
> > Windows)
> > 
> > --- Mike Peterson <mpeterson at charles.coxatwork.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I would personally and if at work stick with
> > > Mandrake or Redhat if it
> > > worked.
> > > I personally do not think Progeny is ready for
> > prime
> > > time.
> > > That is my opinion.
> > > Any one else have feedback on this matter?
> > 
> > 
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