[LUGSB] Pen drive - Getting Mandriva

[Skip Evans]

How difficult is it to get KDE up and going after 
an apt-get? Would I have to configure and X server 
and all that? Or would the install take care of 
that? I've configured X servers on BSD before, and 
it was no picnic.

Nick Horvath wrote:
> You can use KDE with debian no problem, just install KDE in aptitude
> when you install the system or apt-get it later. Just download a
> Debian 3.1 (also called "sarge"  or "testing") netinstall cd from our
> debian mirror on campus at
> http://debian.ams.sunysb.edu/debian-cd/daily/i386/current/ (assuming
> your machine is i386, we have other architectures if it isn't) you can
> also add it to your sources.list as
> http://debian.ams.sunysb.edu/debian/.
> -Nick
> 
> On 5/4/05, Skip Evans <skip at venomouspenguin.com> wrote:
> 
>>Vinay Pai wrote:
>>
>>>Why do you mean "locked down sources.list"?
>>
>>What I meant was that it seems when I tried to
>>change the sources.list file to get access to
>>a wider range of packages I wrote over some
>>library files with different versions than were
>>needed by extant OS components and messed things
>>up.
>>
>>Xandros email support since to only use their
>>sources.list file.
>>
>>Vinay, I would love to use Debian, but do you
>>know here I can dowload a distro with KDE (I
>>use the Kate code editor for editing source
>>code and want to stay with it) ???? I'd
>>download it now if I knew where from.
>>
>>Skip
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