KDE<\/A> for the time being. KDE is getting better by each time I try it. It is a well done, flexible, properly integrated and self-contained desktop manager. I’d guess tomorrow will be the themes day, though. :)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\nToday I’ve upgraded my workstation (the one in the office) to Red Hat Linux 9. It had 8.0 until now. The process itself was mostly painless until, for some strange reason, \/etc\/fstab was modified by installation to use partition LABELs instead of device names. 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