Well, the Kubuntu run from CD works well on the laptop.  Has the
Atheros wireless driver built-in so I'm typing this on the CD run.
Konqueror does not like the standard Gmail interface so I had to go to
the HTML version.

I used Red Hat and then Fedora for years but left for OpenSUSE when
basic updates from Fedora kept breaking things.  It felt too much on
the leading edge and I wanted to get more work done and less
tinkering.

I'll have to think about Fedora as a candidate for my transition but
this Kunbuntu looks nice so far.

Alan


On 8/25/08, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 21:12 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>
>> wrote:
>>         Novell has re-upped with Microsoft, including the continuation
>>         of
>>         "intellectual property" FUD[1].  So, I've been patient because
>>         I
>>         really want to like Novell and I like OpenSUSE but, it's time
>>         to move
>>         on from the "Linux division of MS"
>>
>>         My most likely destination distro is Kunbuntu because of it's
>>         strong
>>         support, good reputation and my preference for KDE.
>>
>>   Welcome aboard!
>>
>>          I downloaded the
>>         community supported version of 8.04 that has KDE 4 as the
>>         default
>>         desktop.  I'm curious as to it's stability.  If you have
>>         experience
>>         with KDE 4, especially on Kubuntu, please share with all of
>>         us.  Has
>>         it been stable?  Is it resource hungry?  Any other gotchas?
>>          Did you
>>         wish to go back to KDE 3.x?  Why or why not?
>>
>>   I started with Kubuntu, and moved to Ubuntu.  There are far more
>> Ubuntu users and the packages, etc. have better community support.
>> Unless KDE is a major req for you, I would suggest falling into the
>> Ubuntu groove.
> ----
> I've been using KDE 4 on Fedora-9 (I'm actually using the KDE-4.1
> packages from updates-testing because 4.1 hasn't gotten out of testing
> yet). 4.0.x left some to be desired on Fedora but the 4.1 helped smooth
> out a lot of rough edges.
>
> If you are hypercritical about desktop features, there is still a lot of
> feature regression in KDE-4.1 but it's usable enough for me.
>
> As for Kubuntu/Ubuntu...I don't understand the differences but I am
> using KDE on Ubuntu (wasn't hard to get it all installed after original
> launch in GNOME) but for now on Ubuntu, I'm only using KDE-3.5.9
>
> Craig
>
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