BAD kubuntu

[tshipley at deru.com]

Ubuntu is a little more solid than Kubuntu, but since the computer doesn't boot let alone launch the X windowing system I doubt that is immediately relevant. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:43:58 
To: Main PLUG discussion list<plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Subject: Re: BAD kubuntu


  I switched from Kubuntu to Ubuntu... Ubuntu is more solid.

  -jmz


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Trent Shipley<trent_shipley at yahoo.com> 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.
>
>
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