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Old 07-09-2007, 09:25 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Question [Suggest]Debian based Distro for my friend with KDE

Please suggest a distro for my friend with KDE as DE.
As he does not have high speed internet connection so he wants all the stuff work out of box, he does not bother whether the code is open source or not.
what is main purpose here it should work out of box with zero configration.

It should also play Mp3's,dvd's and other things out of box


Well the main purpose of this is to get familiar with linux and after that he can shift to standard linux distro like fedora,Ubuntu etc
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Old 07-09-2007, 09:41 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I believe Linux Mint has a KDE version.
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Simply MEPIS.
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how to decide, which one to go for?


@kalpik
does MEPIS install all codecs,flash etc out of box?
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http://www.mepis.org/mirrors
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sure,why not Debian(almost) Sid itself?
sidux -kde distro direct debian sid synced
http://sidux.com
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I don't think Mepis would play things out of box but it sure looks deadly pretty!

Edit: Looks like the mega DVD pack has codecs in it, cool, go for it! (Lacks only Libdvdcss and w32codecs, has gstreamer and libxine etc, which'd easily play all popular media )
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Quote:
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I believe Linux Mint has a KDE version.
yes they do sir.

@gary, linux mint has all wat u want, and plus more, so no need to download any extra....

torrents for linux mint.

http://www.linuxmint.de/downloads.html ( for kde & gnome stable releases)

if u want an gnome version, then u can download the latest version, which has many goodies already in it, but a beta release.

LinuxMint-3.1-BETA-017(gnome)

LinuxMint-3.1-BETA-017 included softies
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i'd suggest simply mepis too
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What is the diffrence between
KDE Edition & miniKDE Edition of linux mint

i mean what all it missing in mini edition?
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Or go for debian itself. I believe KDE is there on one of the 3DVD's
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What is the diffrence between
KDE Edition & miniKDE Edition of linux mint

i mean what all it missing in mini edition?
this r missing only in Cassandra KDE 3
  • Support for other languages (only English is supported by the liveCD, other languages can be added once the system is installed)
  • Inkscape
  • Hugin
  • Scribus
  • KMymoney
  • K9Copy
  • The Gimp
  • libicu34
  • kde-icons-mono
  • ttf-arabeyes
  • diveintopython
  • a lot of KDE documentation was also removed to make space.
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