There seems to be some confusion surrounding Red Hat and whether they (intentionally or unintentionally) mangled their KDE.
“Mike’s Little Website” has A Users’ Perspective of Red Hat 8.0’s KDE. Now, I’m not pro Red Hat, per se, but I think they have had some rough treatment regarding what may have been due to recompiling some apps with GCC 3. Sure, that may break a few things, but it’s not sabotage.
It’s been alleged that Red Hat deliberately broke Konqueror plugins. […] Konqueror plugins work. On my current 8 BETA system, my favorite Flash site (www.xdude.com) works, my favorite Quicktime site (www.quicktime.com/trailers) works, and so do most other sites (macromedia.com still has issues though). The issue was that older versions of these closed source plugins were compiled with ‘ancient’ (according to Bero) compilers, and this couldn’t be dynamically loaded from the GCC 3 compiled nspluginviewer. Macromedia seem to have fixed the problem with their current Flash 6 open beta […]