F8 vs F9

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 13 18:56:42 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 09:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2008 15:50, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > If you have ATI, F8 is the only way to go.  F9 is not good for ATI
> > cards, the ati drivers won't support any x server greater than 1.4.2.
> 
> I presume you mean for accelerated desktop effects?  Certainly for 'normal' 
> use there is no problem.

"Normal" is folks who want to get the money out of their hardware as
opposed to a GNU cultist that's willing to accept substandard behavior
in the driver


> 
> > KDE4 really is a disaster so far, it looks like a dumbed down gnome. 
> 
> Utter rubbish.

According to Queene Anne?  BFD.

> 
> > F8 
> > features the last mature version of kde, which is 3.5, and it's pretty
> > robust.
> 
> Nothing wrong with 3.5, but remember that if you install F8 now it will be 
> unsupported in a very short time.

That depends on who's doing the supporting.


> 
> Anne
> 


LX




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