--- Glenn Hollowell
But is XFCE agressively maintained?
Yes.
Wouldn't it be possible to include a nice stable version of KDE1 that is maintained at a minimal level just as XFCE is?
No. Which part of "dead" do you not understand? <best John Cleese:> This project is deceased. It is an ex-project. This project is no more. I suppose you could dig around in some older SuSE disks, install some whacked-out compatibility libraries, and use older SuSE RPMs of KDE, but why? Get a decent window manager and lose the bloat.
I'm just suggesting including a minimal KDE1 installation option for end users who have less than the recommended 1.5gb, or 64 mb ram.
With such "minimal" system constraints, I'm afraid that keeping up with the SuSE's is not a valid option. Drop in SuSE 6.4, get the security updates, and leave it alone. SuSE may not be an ideal distribution for you, either. On my box at home, I have the entirety of XFree86-4.1.0, the core of KDE 2.2(.1?), lots of development tools and libraries (LOTS!), a recent glibc and Linux-2.4.13. My disk consumption (minus /home, /usr/local, and /usr/src) is less than 500MB; my distribution is Debian. It doesn't have the polish that SuSE has (not by a LONG shot), but the Debian developers have a penchant for only installing what you need to install when you need to install it, as opposed to SuSE's appearant philosophy of "Give it to 'em, just in case they need it." And as good as YOU is, it's only the tip of the iceberg for package maintenence... I don't want to detract from SuSE's business, nor degrade the excellent work that they do, but I think it's time that you start exploring other options. ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com