Dahnielson

I did a terrible misstake a couple months ago which I hate my own guts for. I upgraded to Red Hat 8 ….

Despite I was running a perfectly healthy Red Hat 7.3 system as my main desktop computer it started to slip after because new releases of software wasn’t prepacked in RPMs for 7.3 any longer, of course I could compile it myself (and I do for some important program) but dependencies will kill you at the end, making it hard to use reasonable up to date versions. So I upgradet to Red Hat 8, that was the only CD I got hold on since I’m no longer on any high-speed internet connection. Big mistake. Especially since I tried out KDE as desktop and really liked it and Red Hat has made it pretty much unusable together with their latest distributions.

What’s making me really pissed of at Red Hat right now is the fact that they removed Font Installer from the Control Center making it impossible to install new fonts, like the math fonts needed to use KFormula.

I’m going to sidegrade to Gentoo and do no longer need to worry about not having a up to date system. If I can get hold of a Gentoo CD …

Now I’m going to bed hoping that santa stuff my stockings or else. Oh yeah, it isn’t December, but it doesn’t matter I’m pissed as it is !!

Update: I just found out about a packaging effort KDE-RedHat for 8/9 that is more true to the original packaging from KDE.org than the Red Hat version (distributed by KDE.org as RPMs for RH). And yeah, I found out how to install fonts manually so both GNOME and KDE finds them. But I still don’t like the fact of removing the capability from KDE Control Center, I don’t want to spend hours trying figure out how to do a such trivial thing as installing a new font, the commandline is sacred for important stuff… E’nuff said.