On Wed 29 July 2009 9:17:59 pm Trent Shipley wrote:
> I've been running Kubuntu on my desktop for a while now. Since the upgrade
> to 9.04 it has worked really well. Today the update program said the
> kernel had to be updated for security reasons, so I updated. Now the @#$%
> computer won't finish booting. This has happened before -- frequently.
> Until now I have been lucky and some old kernel known to GRUB would boot.
> Not this time. I have a perfectly good /home directory that I cant get to.
> When this has happened before I've tried burning an Ubuntu install DVD.
> That won't work. The install DVD naturally has the latest kernel so it
> won't boot my Dell desktop either.
>
> I am annoyed with Kubuntu. I used SuSE before Ubuntu. Who wants to
> recommend a good desktop distro for someone who thinks WIMP interfaces are
> a great advance over the command line? I prefer KDE to Gnome, but it's not
> a big deal either way.
Fedora11 KDE :) I just upgraded my system to 4.3rc using kde-redhat.sf.net and
LOVE it even more :)
Ryan
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