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Re: Good or Bad? a few thoughts
by Gerrit P. Haase on Sunday 25/Nov/2001, @03:31

>4. this will help the non-upgraders say win95 will not upgrade to XP since this KDE rocks. Money saved!

I guess it will never run on win95, also it will be a big problem to use it on top of win98, since there is no security concept.

One example (no KDE related): If you build 'fetchmail' on NT, there is no problem, it builds OOTB and it runs fine, just as it is at home:-)

But if you want to use it on win98 it dies with an error because the inifile:
~/.fetchmailrc has the wrong permissions. You cannot set permissions on win98, there are no permissions (poor they are). So if you want to use it, the permission check needs to be commented in the sources. I guess, if you want to build a full blown KDE there will be a lot of work to get it to run on such a primitive system like DOS is.

So if you want to use KDE on windows you need at least NT4, better W2k, probably XP will do it too.

Gerrit

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