KDE 3.5 with sidux.

Install last available sidux release with kde3.5 [I think I used 2008-3].
Grab smxi & kdehi from this site. kdehi holds all your old kde3.5.
Run smxi -! 31 [to have smxi use the kdehi script.]

I've been upgrading my sidux this way since kde4 hit sid & all all my kde3.5 stuff still works perfectly. Only thing you will run into with the upgrade is the X changes, basically you need to change to a very minimal xorg.conf or maybe none at all. Other than that.......smooth sailing. For how long? Who knows, but I'm going to continue with it till total borkage cuz I just want to know how long I can continue to do so..........

Good Luck!
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if/when it borks
techpatterns.com/forums/about1450.html
might work on sidux
also upgrading old sidux will probably get difficult if not already
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i have abandoned both sidux and kde4 on my newest box - instead i have been running pure sid with gnome, and maintained with smxi

3 weeks so far with no problems whatsoever. gnome 2.28 is very usable and not annoying and slow like kde4
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Thanks for the reminder however to all here that the "evil script" wasn't allowed there. My future son in law got caught there in IRC the other night using inxi and they raked him over the coals for it.

I want to thank everyone here for all their help. Without that script I've have never probably came to linux and that would have been a terrible loss to me personally. I've learned lots and hope to continue to.
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Any doubt I had about the irrationality of the sidux lads was totally confirmed when we forked inxi (and the fork was because a tiny patch I submitted to fix a bug was never added, later slh I believe invented some absurdly ridiculous excuse about why it wasn't added even after being accepted) and rather than welcoming the update/upgrade to the bug ridden, impossible to maintain, infobash, you got these bans etc, totally exposed what was really going on in the sidux project. Since inxi basically does everything that infobash does, only much better, and does a lot more besides, you can really see that bruised egos have much more to do with the decisions these guys make than engineering or the end user's best interest.

Luckily, other distros are not as pathetic, and recommend/use these tools based on empirical evidence, utility, and other such novel and admittedly arcane methods of forming judgments. Mint now I believe releases their xchat with built in inxi triggers in the actual gui, to make debugging and problem handling more easy on irc.

Amusingly, infobash is such a huge mess that it really cannot be worked on in any substantial way, possibly the most convoluted code I have ever seen in my life, with more hidden bugs and errors per line on average than anything I've ever touched.
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hi

Well I may have come to my senses but only after a certain entity who did not like sidux forum being polluted by my grub2 wiki links?

So I spat the dummy and have self banned my self. (I did forecast I would be banned after questioning a leader where his evidence was in making certain assertiions, but failed to get banned)

(resists urge to drink more aussie beer)

I can not claim to be rational and I do not want to be in this crazy world.

best regards.
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You did your best aus9 . . . as many have before you! I'm always intrigued as to how long new and active participants will last . . . .
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I have not posted there in about a year. Probably won't again. Very dissapointing.
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i am done with the sidux forum, too - after i criticized the sidux mods' stalinist approach to discussions, one of the mods apparently changed the password on my account w/o notice - and since then i tried to re-establish that account by clicking on the "forgot my password" button - but my account remains broken/disabled by some un-named sidux mod - which confirms their stalinist outlook.

unbelievable, but definitely time to move on...
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Ya, it's gotten to the point you have to be pretty thick skinned to post there. Shame they don't have the same "thick skin". I don't really care though. Usually with an issue I can still get an answer there. (or at least get reminded it's in the manual). I've run sidux for about 2 years now and honestly I don't feel the need to change on my main box.

I do think it's "bull" that they locked your account out, that's unreal. I hate to hear that. I knew things were bad over there but that's a little out there for a users forum.
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