bcooksley wrote:KDE 3 used HAL, so you might need to install that by hand, as current generation distributions don't install it by default.

It installed by dependencies but one have to start the service through Yast.

einar wrote:There's an ongoing discussion on the opensuse-factory ML regarding the lack of automounting of removable drives in KDE3. According to some of the messages there, it's something that needs to be fixed in KDE3 rather than lower in the stack.

It's related to Factory and not to openSUSE 11.4 which includes hal. Anybody also can install HAL and HAL-enabled packages on Factory as well. The discussion was only about building KDE3 without hal, a requirement to include KDE3 in the official openSUSE repository.

Currently there are no issues with auto-mounting for packages built without hal, other than it cannot recognise USB drives as such and thinks about them as of hard drives.

I've gotten used to KDE4 on the Desktop, and like I say, it's not bad at all, in fact it's the second best DE I know. but on my old IBM thinkpad, it's my own kustom Slax with lovely, lovely KDE3. I'll mount an ext3 partition on the harddrive as /home, and run the adduser command, and that will give me a normal user account that saves all my data and settings. Slax is easy to customize so I can keep firefox, thunderbird and Seamonkey up to date. Combining old applications with new web browsers works great for me, for the stuff I do on my laptop. The web has changed a lot over the past few years, but text editing is still text editing.

Some people actually do download my homemade Linux distro. KIARA has been downloaded hundreds of times to locations all over the world.

Check out the KIARA logo, a rusty gear. Get it?

http://www.kiaragnulinux.blogspot.com