Re: tlug: X and distribution choice

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > which flavors aren't?
> 
> A couple of OEMs messed with the chips, rendering them somewhat
> incompatible.  I don't remember which ones offhand.
> 
> > And are any of the flavors supported by Solaris x86?
> 
> The Solaris X server?  I doubt it, but I don't pay attention to their
> server.  XFree86 runs on intel Solaris.
> 

really?  You'll have to show me/tell me how to set that up someday.  Or is
it as simple as download the source, configure, make, make install?

As for the Solaris X server, I think you need to have a video card that
was made at LEAST 5 years ago for it to be supported.

> > KDE has been out longer than Gnome.. unfortunately there's no Japanese
> > support in KDE, unless they've added it really recently.
> 
> ... because the necessary support in Qt is missing ...
> 

Don't get me started on that piece of ****, please.  I kind of wish that
QT had kept its old license, so that KDE would have been forced to port to
GTK+ or something.. :)

> -- Chris
> 
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