via the KDE Mailing List:
READ THIS SUMMARY
If all you want is a workable version of KDE, stick with what came with the distro when you installed it. Everything else can break your system at any time with no warning because it *will* always be changing.
If you want the latest released version of just the applications [...]
For 64.bit:
cd /opt/google/chrome
ln -s /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/ plugins
. . . . . . . . . . .
And for 32.bit, open a terminal and type:
cd /opt/google/chrome
ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/ plugins
. . . . . . . . . . .
Close and then reopen Chrome and you’re set.
I’ve spent the last three weeks installing, testing, and wrecking various distros on purpose among three machines of various ages and here’s what I found:
Ubuntu/Kubuntu had the most bugs and Kubuntu the most aggravation with KDE;
Fedora is quite good (as it is every other release) and has a strong integration of KDE;
Mandriva/Mepis/Mint are fine but [...]
It’s simple. Go to openSUSE-Community.org and follow the Multimedia/Restricted Formats link. You can also go to the Package Repositories page on the openSUSE.org site.
Enjoy!
As computing has gradually moved toward the cloud in the past three years, one may not have noticed until Google announced its Chrome OS this week. But as Microsoft and Apple have put their money on locking in users by controlling their platforms in consistently more restrictive ways through patenting everything they can think of, [...]
This past week I tested the installation times — including HD format — of three distros and Win7 among five machines. Those five machines included: an i7-2.93 Quad-core desktop, a Core-2, 2.83 desktop, a Pentium-III desktop, a 2Gb netbook, and a 4Gb laptop. Here are the averaged results in minutes:
7:05 – openSUSE 11.2
7:40 – sidux [...]
I’m a confirmed distro-hopper, but openSUSE 11.2 works so well that Microsoft should begin to worry about desktop Linux.
It installed in 11 minutes, which included a 2Tb HD format for the EXT4 filesystem.
Recognized my second drive during installation.
The integrated KDE Firefox is nice. Hardly noticeable until you remember its old look.
Win7 running in [...]