From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Not defending their reasoning, but it probably went something like this:

If you want to do something "START" here.  Run a program,
shutdown, etc.  It all "Starts" here.  Look as START as meaning
"The First place to go".

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Glenn M.
"mike"  wrote in message
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>
> How much of that is due to the fact that most have been fighting Windows
> for years, and have succumbed to its flaws?
>
> I still wonder why I have to press the Start button to stop the
> computer....  Yeah, that makes sense, but everyone is so accustomed to
> that little bit of Microsoft "innovation" that they just do it.
>
>  /m
>
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:49:24 -0500, Gary Britt
>  wrote:
>
>>Your messages make it seem like Linux still has a long way to go to be a
>>desktop operating system.
>>
>>Gary
>>
>>Randall Parker wrote:
>>> Running KDE 3.5.5 now. What I did to get there:
>>>
>>> Logged in as root. Typed this:
>>>>  yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
>>>
>>> It ran for a while and asked me if it was okay to get 125 Megs of stuff
>>> and I answered y and hit return.
>>>
>>> Rebooting did not give me a choice of KDE. So instructions to that
>>> effect are wrong.
>>>
>>> Then I had to log in as root and edit:
>>> /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>>>
>>> That file was empty.
>>>
>>> I added two lines:
>>>
>>> DESKTOP="KDE"
>>> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>>>
>>> I saved and rebooted. Now I am in KDE and feel much better about the
>>> world. The war in Iraq? The trade deficit? CO2 atmospheric build-up? It
>>> all seems much more manageable with KDE.
>>>
>>> Randall Parker wrote:
>>>> I might have an answer to my own question:
>>>>
>>>> Went here:
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE
>>>>
>>>> and found this command to do at the command line as root:
>>>>
>>>> yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
>>>>
>>>> It is currently doing lots of stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Randall Parker wrote:
>>>>> I started here:
>>>>> http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/3.5.5/
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I went to these pages:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/kde/stable/3.5.5/
>>>>> ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.5.5/
>>>>> ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.5.5/
>>>>>
>>>>> They list:
>>>>>
>>>>> Directory: Pardus           10/10/2006      10:17:00 PM
>>>>> Directory: SuSE         08/01/2006     12:11:00 PM
>>>>> Directory: contrib         10/13/2006     04:22:00 AM
>>>>> Directory: kubuntu         10/16/2006     09:59:00 PM
>>>>> Directory: src
>>>>>
>>>>> The contrib directory has Slackware.
>>>>>
>>>>> So where can I get Fedora KDE?
>>>>>
>>>>> I even went back to 3.5.4 and did not find it:
>>>>>
>>>>> ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.5.4/

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