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[Suggest]Debian based Distro for my friend with KDE

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gary4gar
gary4gar Original post #1
Sep 7, 2007 at 9:25 AM
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
M
mehulved #2
Sep 7, 2007 at 9:41 AM
I believe Linux Mint has a KDE version.
kalpik
kalpik #3
Sep 7, 2007 at 10:29 AM
Simply MEPIS.
gary4gar
gary4gar #4
Sep 7, 2007 at 10:32 AM
how to decide, which one to go for?


@kalpik
does MEPIS install all codecs,flash etc out of box?
kalpik
kalpik #5
Sep 7, 2007 at 10:37 AM
*www.mepis.org/mirrors
praka123
praka123 #6
Sep 7, 2007 at 10:51 AM
sure,why not Debian(almost) Sid itself?
sidux -kde distro direct debian sid synced
*sidux.com
QwertyManiac
QwertyManiac #7
Sep 7, 2007 at 12:29 PM
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 :)) )
vish786
vish786 #8
Sep 7, 2007 at 1:01 PM
mehulved said:
I believe Linux Mint has a KDE version.
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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.

*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
infra_red_dude
infra_red_dude #9
Sep 7, 2007 at 1:31 PM
i'd suggest simply mepis too :)
gary4gar
gary4gar #10
Sep 7, 2007 at 2:12 PM
What is the diffrence between
KDE Edition & miniKDE Edition of linux mint

i mean what all it missing in mini edition?
M
mehulved #11
Sep 7, 2007 at 2:15 PM
Or go for debian itself. I believe KDE is there on one of the 3DVD's
vish786
vish786 #12
Sep 7, 2007 at 2:41 PM
gary4gar said:
What is the diffrence between
KDE Edition & miniKDE Edition of linux mint

i mean what all it missing in mini edition?
Click to expand...

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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