Submitted by rich_c on October 6, 2009 - 8:32am
I noticed recently that the community is making a start with KDE4 entry in the Mepis Wiki. My effort to start getting ready for Mepis 8.5 with KDE4 has been to install DanumLinux Canteras 3c on an external hard disk, running plugged in to a Dell Inspiron 1501.
So far, I'm impressed! It seems to run quite well on the Inspiron's modest spec, despite the disk i/o over USB no doubt being quite a bottleneck. The only issues of note, apart from out of the ordinary things I was trying to do have been, getting used to Aptitude instead of Synaptic. No doubt needed because of the mish-mash of different repositories. Also, on this machine I had no luck with either mxconfig or smxi getting the ATI Xpress 200M graphics adapter to work. What did do the trick was to run the install script downloaded from the ATI website. I'm not adverse to using proprietary solutions when needed...
So with some bells and whistles turned on and all the basics in place, I'm now really looking forward to the day when KDE4 can grace my main desktop. The way I do various tasks at the PC seem to have adapted well to the new interface, so I'm hopeful the real migration will be pretty straightforward!
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