Re: linux client

%% Frank Gruman <fgatwork@verizon.net> writes:

  fg> It has come to my attention that Ubuntu does not have KDE.  You'd
  fg> have to switch to Kubuntu in order to get the KDE unless you
  fg> wanted to try loading KDE from source on your Ubuntu machine. So
  fg> - you may want to figure out what you like about Ubuntu and
  fg> consider looking at another distro (my vote for SUSE and Craig's
  fg> vote for Fedora) to give you your KDESVN tool.

KDE is just a desktop environment. It has nothing to do with the base
distribution, and there's no need to switch distros for this reason.

Ubuntu is a complete GNU/Linux distribution that provides Gnome as the
standard desktop environment.

Kubuntu is the SAME complete GNU/Linux distribution, except that it
provides KDE as the standard desktop environment.

Other than that, they are identical underneath. Everything else works
just the same as your current Ubuntu.

Not only that, but you can _very easily_ add KDE applications to your
Ubuntu desktop (or Gnome applications to your Kubuntu desktop). The
magic of the Debian package manager will simply install all the
prerequisite libraries, etc. that you need.

If you don't run the entire KDE desktop some of the more "integrated"
features probably won't work (although more will these days than before,
as FreeDesktop.org begins to standardize more things and KDE and Gnome
both move closer).

I suspect that you simply don't have all the right repositories
available to download the things you want. If you stick with the base
Ubuntu repositories then you are missing out on all the stuff available
in the Multiverse and Universe repositories. These may not be quite as
well tested but they're derived from Debian packages so they still have
a LOT of QA. They'll save you a lot of time rebuilding from source. At
the very least they will certainly be able to provide you with all the
basic libraries you need so that you don't have to build those.

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