Aunt Tilly's Linux

[Jon M. Hanson]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:39 PM, Chris Gehlker wrote:

>
> On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:31 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote:
>>> My  question for you all is this: 'Is the Nautilus shell common
>>> enough on newbie desktop Linux systems that it is reasonable just to
>>> assume it is there?'
>>
>> For GNOME based distributions it is.  There are some KDE ones also.
>> Konquerer has the same feature, but you have to remember the magic
>> keyword "fish", so a SSH URI is "fish://myserver/".
>>
>> In my experience don't question why you need to know this magic
>> keyword
>> to KDE people, they are unable to talk rationally about it.   
>> Hopefully
>> this has changed in newer version of KDE.  (I'm sure someone will
>> respond to this :))
>
> Thanks Ted and Jon,
>
> Can you recommend a newbie oriented KDE distribution so I can go
> 'fishing' myself. Here are the distros "officially" supported by my
> virtualization software though I don't think that matters much:
>
> Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5, 4, 3
> Red Hat® Linux 9, 8, 7.3
> Debian® Linux 4.0, 3.1
> FedoraTM Core Linux 6, 5, 4, 3
> SUSE® Linux 10.2, 10.1, 10.0, 9.3, 9.2, 9.1, 9.0
> MandrakeTM Linux 10.1, 10, 9.2
> Mandriva Linux 2007
> Ubuntu® Linux 7.04, 6.10, 6.06, 5.04
> Xandros Busines 4.0
> CentOS 5
>

Kubuntu is just like Ubuntu expect it uses KDE for the window manager  
instead of Gnome. It should work under virtualization just fine. I've  
run it under VMWare with no problems.
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