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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:39:12
Message-Id: 4AA5291A.1020700@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure. by Peter Humphrey
1 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> One thing [kde:4] definitely is not, is the next evolution of KDE-3.
9 >>>> Comparisons with KDE-3 are going result in disappointment
10 >>>>
11 >>> Well, that seems to condemn v4 out of hand :-) . If it can't compare
12 >>> favourably with its predecessor, what's it doing there at all?
13 >>>
14 >> Read the post again. I said nothing about favourable, unfavourable or
15 >> anything else like that.
16 >>
17 >> I only said that KDE4 is not KDE3 (doh...) so if you run KDE4 thinking
18 >> you are going to get something like KDE3 you are going to be
19 >> disappointed. It is not like KDE3, it is not built on KDE3, it is not an
20 >> evolution of KDE3. It is different, and stands on it's own. Comparisons
21 >> with KDE3 are unfair, sort of like comparing you with your father is
22 >> unfair.
23 >>
24 >
25 > The way I read your words is equally valid. If I compare a later version
26 > with its predecessor I don't expect to be disappointed.
27 >
28 >
29 >>> I'm working quite hard at getting used to it (it's even the default
30 >>> grub choice), but it's uphill all the way.
31 >>>
32 >> Um, dude.... grub selects a kernel. Or an OS. But never a DE.
33 >> The dm does that.
34 >>
35 >
36 > Depends how you have it set up. On this box I have two separate
37 > installations: one with kde:3 and one with kde:4. I select the one I want
38 > with grub entries.
39 >
40 >
41
42 Could you post your grub.conf? I'd like to see how you do that.
43
44 Dale
45
46 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure. Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>