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[t.s.]

Slackware and openSuSE are the best KDE-based distros out there. Slackware is faster, bloat-free and more secure. But its package management is less intuitive compared to openSuSE and you need fair amount of experience with Linux (any UNIX-like OS) to be comfortable with Slackware. openSuSE has an excellent GUI control center for everything from package management to server administration.

Nope, openSuSE state of now is too gnome centric.

[energyman]

arch can't even properly version their kernels.

if you want 'easy' go opensuse. Good KDE. Pretty recent software. Easy to use.

[energyman]

Nope, openSuSE state of now is too gnome centric.

might change soon. Opensuse users told novell that they are pissed off with all the gnome crap.

[deanjo]

Nope, openSuSE state of now is too gnome centric.

openSUSE at the moment is de neutral. SLED in gnome biased and as energyman says don't be surprised if KDE becomes the default desktop again soon in openSUSE.

https://features.opensuse.org/306967

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[Mora]

arch can't even properly version their kernels.

Erm, fail

andrew@Serenity:~$ pacman -Qi kernel26 | grep -i version
Version        : 2.6.30.5-1

It doesn't add the minor release version to the kernel name however

andrew@Serenity:~$ uname -r
2.6.30-ARCH

...but that's a name, nothing more.

[AdrenalineJunky]

Erm, fail

andrew@Serenity:~$ pacman -Qi kernel26 | grep -i version
Version        : 2.6.30.5-1

It doesn't add the minor release version to the kernel name however

andrew@Serenity:~$ uname -r
2.6.30-ARCH

...but that's a name, nothing more.

your point?

[BlackStar]

your point?

That energyman has been reiterating the same moronic argument for months.

Arch's versioning scheme is working perfectly. The package manager reports the correct version; you can install any version side-by-side; you can change the name to "look ma, no hands" and it will still work fine.

This argument was stupid when energyman made it last year. It's still stupid now.

[energyman]

look into boot. What do you find there on an arch system?

[AdrenalineJunky]

@blackstar - i don't think i was in my right mind when i asked that question....

@energy man - that has nothing to do with versioning and everything to do with not having to update the grub menu.lst after every kernel install. there are quite a few distro's that do it that way actually.

[energyman]

*yawn* you don't have to update menu.lst/grub.conf if you do it right.

kernel with version + symlink. Works fine, is save. Arch can not do it? Made by idiots or broken? What is it?