KDE 3.1 mini-cd or Full Knoppix release featuring KDE 3.1?

**David Douthitt** · 03-12-2003, 02:27 AM

KnoppixKDE (with KDE 3.1) is phenomenal - but it has some bugs (and misfeatures).

Tear-off menus appear to be a thing of the past....

KOrganizer appears to have several bugs; most memorable was the inability to delete ToDo items - there are three or four ways to do this, but only one works (delete key, I think it was).

The text-based terminal displays never get rid of the graphical "frame" - cute during bootup, annoying otherwise - and worse yet, no text is visible unless it is displayed in ANSI bold.

It was also quite surprising to find that ruby ( http://www.ruby-lang.org ) was not present, and neither was screen ( http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ ). This combination (along with the invisible text on the virtual terminals) caused my startup scripts to fail (since they are Ruby-based) without any visible descriptions at all.

Very nice, but not ready for prime time...

PS: http://minicd.berlios.de doesn't seem to be responding... Last time I tried http://www.berlios.de it timed out too.

**johann** · 03-12-2003, 06:13 AM

Originally Posted by David Douthitt

KnoppixKDE (with KDE 3.1) is phenomenal - but it has some bugs (and misfeatures).
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Very nice, but not ready for prime time...

PS: http://minicd.berlios.de doesn't seem to be responding... Last time I tried http://www.berlios.de it timed out too.

I know that the KDE 3.1.1 is being worked on and it contains quite a bit of bug-fixes. On the bootsplash issue, I think that you should be able to set the color of the text, I seem to remember something like that in one of the forums...

PPS: Yes, it seems that BerliOs are having some problems at this point. Do a traceroute and see. I would like to test the mini-cd version as well. AFAIK Mandrake backports quite a bit of fixes from the main tree, so KDE might be more usable/stable - but in my case I'm quite happy with KnoppixKDE. Then again, variety is the spice of life