[ltp] Re: [Re: Best Linux distro for ThinkPad T61...]

[Chris Fox]

I'm very happy with Fedora on my T43

Chris Penn wrote:
> For basic desktop usage, Ubuntu Hardy or higher, hands down.  If not 
> Ubuntu, then plain old debian.  Ubuntu doesn't really hang server 
> side, but it is the place for desktop applications, IMO.
>
> Chris...
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk 
> <mailto:rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
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>
>     Petar Milin wrote:
>
>
>         The only question that remains for me is how to get Mandriva
>         with KDE 3.5, i.e. Mandriva2008? I can download Mandriva2009
>         and it has KDE 4 by default. Although I read about possibility
>         to downgrade to 3.5 with "urpmi task-kde3", I would prefer to
>         have everything as clean as possible. Hence, where to find
>         last Mandriva with KDE 3.5?
>
>
>     I'm using Mandriva 2009.0 with KDE 3.5 myself. It is a perfectly
>     "clean" thing to do, provided you uninstall all of the KDE4 stuff
>     first . It works very well.
>
>     I don't recommend using an unsupported distro - no security
>     updates or fixes. If you want KDE 3.5, the other choice is really
>     Ubuntu Hardy (LTS).
>
>     Otherwise, do give Gnome or XFCE a spin. Once you customise them
>     to taste, you'll find they can do almost the same things as KDE 3.5
>     (though glipper isn't quite as nice as klipper). You can still run
>     some of the KDE3 (or 4) apps in Gnome - you just don't get the
>     "environment".
>
>     Richard
>
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