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Distribution: Knoppix; Mandriva; Gentoo; Debian; Playing with some new distro always!
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bypassing Having to pay for latest software
I was wondering if there were any apt repositories or urpmi or yast repositories that I could throw into my config to allow me to download and install the latest KDE among other software. Currently the "official" repositories are lacking much of the latest software.
Any help would be greatly apreacieated.
Damon
BTW I am familiar with Debian and other distros. It has been a while since the last time I used Mankdrake/iva.
If you have a distribution that charges you to get the latest software, then it's time to change distributions. I recommend Fedora Core 5 if you like leading edge software.
There are several unofficial repositories that give you the software offered in "the Club." If you search rpmfind.net, you will find them. Use Mandriva as a search function. One place is www.mde.djura.org
BTW, Fedora Core 5 would not work with Nvidia drivers when it was first released. They fixed it, but what a bonehead play!
SoS packages are backported from cooker to the latest stable release. They are safe (and IMHO more stable than mde packages) to use if you follow their instructions.
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