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   Message 136,705 of 138,051   
   Carlos E.R. to conrrrod@gmail.com   
   Re: incest: SLED 15 with Leap 15 repos   
   28 Dec 18 15:52:07   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 28/12/2018 14.37, conrrrod@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Just a followup to this.... I tried out the beta RHEL 8 and it is whittled   
   > down like SLE 15 i.e. only comes with ghastly Gnome desktop.   
   > RHEL 8 was forked off Fedora 28 supposedly.  If I shove the Fedora 28 repo   
   > into RHEL8, one can only install simple things, basically a self-contained   
   > rpm with minimal dependencies.  Try to install another desktop into RHEL8   
   will   
   > go splat. You get dozens of messages that something is either not found   
   > or the library versions are different.   
   > With SLED15, I could at least install the LXDE desktop. Maybe it breaks   
   > something down the track, but that is a big difference over the red team.   
   >   
   > Anyway, enough faffing around, I will just use Leap 15 in future, it seems to   
   > be the best option in this class of distros.   
      
   Leap is very nice :-)   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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