F8 vs F9

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Nigel Henry
<cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2008 19:54, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>> Em Ter 12 Ago 2008, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED escreveu:
>> > I need to install a few new systems in the next
>> > few weeks.  My requirements are: apache; C++ code
>> > development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above
>> > all, stability.  I have heard a rumor that I might
>> > be better off with F8 than F9.  Is this true?
>>
>> I, for one, would stay with F8 and KDE 3.5.9 for a while. KDE 4.1 is now
>> much better than KDE 4.0 released with F9, but it's still far from
>> finished and much of the functionality of 3.5.9 is not available yet.
>> Also, there are many really annoying bugs waiting for fixes.
>> I'm currently using KDE 4.1 on F9, but if there was an easy way to go
>> back to F8 and KDE 3.5.9, I certainly would.
>>
>> []'s
>> Marcelo
>
> I'd downloaded the 6 cd iso's on dialup for Fedora 9, but hadn't got around to
> installing it, as there were updates waiting for other distros. I updated my
> Archlinux install, which was going to upgrade KDE 3.5.9 to KDE 4.1. Stupidly,
> looking back on it, I let the upgrade go ahead, and ended up with a KDE4
> desktop that was virtually unuseable compared to my KDE 3.5.9 one.
>
> I could give a huge list of problems with KDE4, but the first that I noticed
> is that the sound had stopped working. That is a real no no for me, as the
> first thing I check on a new install is that the sound works.

How exactly did you pair the problem of "sound not working" with "KDE4" ?



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