Alternatives to Kubuntu, was Re: KDE 4.0.0!

[O. Sinclair]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 16/01/2008, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Graham wrote:
>>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:01:10 +0200
>>> "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any suggestions for a KDE based
>>>> distro that is easy for noobs?
>>> Try Mepis.  It uses KDE and once used the ubuntu repositories but in
>>> Mepis 7.0 changed to using the Debian repositories.
>>>
>>> For older architecture, they've got a cut down version called antiX
>>>
>> Linux Mint is another at www.linuxmint.com, based on Ubuntu
>>
> 
> Thank you. Linux Mint seems to use the Ubuntu repos, so I will have to
> research whether or not it uses KDE 4.0. I'll also look at openSUSE
> and possibly Fedora (which I run on other machines).
> 
> I should mention here that I really, really like Fedora, but I do not
> use it as I find it too bleeding edge (read: unstable) for everyday
> use. So it would be ironic that I go back to Fedora as a daily driver
> due to Kubuntu getting too cutting edge.
> 
According to internet news Fedora is scapping KDE3 for KDE4. LInux Mint 
uses KDE3 at this time.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureKDE4

Sinclair