Testing KDE4

[JP Renaud]

Hello,

I run two Fedora boxes (a x86_64 workstation and a x86 laptop) with KDE.
I'd like to try KDE4 to provide bug reports etc... Basically I just saw the
release schedule has been modified [1] and though it's about time I help too.

I don't have much time so it would be nice if the testing could be done as
part of my daily work ... but with an option to just come back to a standard
KDE3 session if it is too unstable.

What would be the best way to do this? Any idea?

Thanks,

JP

[1] <http://lwn.net/Articles/247687/>
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[Sebastian Vahl]

Post by JP Renaud
Hello,
I run two Fedora boxes (a x86_64 workstation and a x86 laptop) with KDE.
I'd like to try KDE4 to provide bug reports etc... Basically I just saw the
release schedule has been modified [1] and though it's about time I help too.
I don't have much time so it would be nice if the testing could be done as
part of my daily work ... but with an option to just come back to a
standard KDE3 session if it is too unstable.

Hi.

ATM the kde4 rpms are not ready to be installed beside kde3 (yet, Rex, please
correct me If I misunderstood you in this case). I for myself use an extra
rawhide partition with kde4 only for this.
Hopefully I'll get a KDE4 livecd with the packages from kde-redhat online this
weekend. So maybe this will help a little bit.

Sebastian

[JP Renaud]

Date: Friday 31 Aug 2007

Post by JP Renaud
Hello,
I run two Fedora boxes (a x86_64 workstation and a x86 laptop) with KDE.
I'd like to try KDE4 to provide bug reports etc... Basically I just saw
the release schedule has been modified [1] and though it's about time I
help too.
I don't have much time so it would be nice if the testing could be done
as part of my daily work ... but with an option to just come back to a
standard KDE3 session if it is too unstable.

Hi.
ATM the kde4 rpms are not ready to be installed beside kde3 (yet, Rex,
please correct me If I misunderstood you in this case). I for myself use an
extra rawhide partition with kde4 only for this.
Hopefully I'll get a KDE4 livecd with the packages from kde-redhat online
this weekend. So maybe this will help a little bit.
Sebastian

I see. Would there be a way to install KDE4 and set up another user on my
system to use it, not mixing KDE3 and KDE4 sessions? The proprietary apps I
use for work are not KDE based anyway and I do a lot from vi in the console
so I guess I could loose my standard KDE apps for the sake of testing once in
a while.
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JP Renaud

http://www.jprenaud.info

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[Arthur Pemberton]

Post by JP Renaud

Date: Friday 31 Aug 2007

Post by JP Renaud
Hello,
I run two Fedora boxes (a x86_64 workstation and a x86 laptop) with KDE.
I'd like to try KDE4 to provide bug reports etc... Basically I just saw
the release schedule has been modified [1] and though it's about time I
help too.
I don't have much time so it would be nice if the testing could be done
as part of my daily work ... but with an option to just come back to a
standard KDE3 session if it is too unstable.

Hi.
ATM the kde4 rpms are not ready to be installed beside kde3 (yet, Rex,
please correct me If I misunderstood you in this case). I for myself use an
extra rawhide partition with kde4 only for this.
Hopefully I'll get a KDE4 livecd with the packages from kde-redhat online
this weekend. So maybe this will help a little bit.
Sebastian

I see. Would there be a way to install KDE4 and set up another user on my
system to use it, not mixing KDE3 and KDE4 sessions? The proprietary apps I
use for work are not KDE based anyway and I do a lot from vi in the console
so I guess I could loose my standard KDE apps for the sake of testing once in
a while.

Virtualization

[JP Renaud]

Date: Saturday 01 Sep 2007

Post by JP Renaud

Date: Friday 31 Aug 2007

Post by JP Renaud
Hello,
I run two Fedora boxes (a x86_64 workstation and a x86 laptop) with
KDE. I'd like to try KDE4 to provide bug reports etc... Basically I
just saw the release schedule has been modified [1] and though it's
about time I help too.
I don't have much time so it would be nice if the testing could be
done as part of my daily work ... but with an option to just come
back to a standard KDE3 session if it is too unstable.

Hi.
ATM the kde4 rpms are not ready to be installed beside kde3 (yet, Rex,
please correct me If I misunderstood you in this case). I for myself
use an extra rawhide partition with kde4 only for this.
Hopefully I'll get a KDE4 livecd with the packages from kde-redhat
online this weekend. So maybe this will help a little bit.
Sebastian

I see. Would there be a way to install KDE4 and set up another user on my
system to use it, not mixing KDE3 and KDE4 sessions? The proprietary apps
I use for work are not KDE based anyway and I do a lot from vi in the
console so I guess I could loose my standard KDE apps for the sake of
testing once in a while.

Virtualization

Good idea! I did not think of that one... although I almost always have a
vmware window open on my desktop...

Is it best to create a F7 virtual machine or to go straight for the F8 beta to
play with the KDE4 packages?
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JP Renaud

http://www.jprenaud.info

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