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Re: Ubuntu 8.10
20-10-2008 12:34 PM
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I recently installed Kubuntu 7.04 Alternate edition on an older laptop that won't boot from USB or SD and only the alternate editions up to 7.04 will install from a PCcard attached CDrom - even with boot options added to affect the way the CD gets identified.
Have since gone from 7.04 to 7.10 via upgrade and will upgrade to the newer versions.
However, if a user wanted a distro that's closer to a "Windows" experience and had newer hardware, I'd choose -PCLinuxOS, Mint or Mepis ahead of the Ubuntu family.
Re: Ubuntu 8.10
20-10-2008 8:19 PM
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When my children and grandchildren come to stay, they of course use my computer. They have never made any comment about using PCLOS. Not sure they even noticed that it wasn't Windows. Last week, on the second day of their visit, I booted to Ubuntu.
"Dad, Grandpa, please can you change it back to how it was yesterday!"
Re: Ubuntu 8.10
20-10-2008 10:27 PM
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But it isn't Windows, so it doesn't look identical to Windows.
Perhaps if I used a more basic Window manager, it would more like Windows?
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Re: Ubuntu 8.10
20-10-2008 10:55 PM
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Re: Ubuntu 8.10
27-10-2008 2:21 PM
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Is it likely to be straightforward or another scrub the partition job
After much work my partitions are now quite nicely arranged.
Re: Ubuntu 8.10
27-10-2008 4:09 PM
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Re: Ubuntu 8.10
27-10-2008 10:22 PM
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ubuntu is a strongly gnome-centric distribution and some argue that their implementation of kde is shoddy at best. if you want to try distributions more kde-centric, there is pclinuxos, mandriva and suse, that i know of. you should not need to reformat all your partitions. if you keep / and /home on separate partitions, you could even use the same /home, provided you used a different username from the one you use in your current distro.
best practise is to back up all valuable data off the machine, format / and /home and install the new distro.
Re: Ubuntu 8.10
28-10-2008 6:36 AM
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Quote from: techguy I might upgrade to this when it comes out so that I'm running the latest release.
Is it likely to be straightforward or another scrub the partition job
KDE is simply another desktop environment. I believe Ubuntu has a KDE meta-package; install that and it will install everything required.
You can continue to use GDM to log-in - it will give you the choice of GNOME or KDE.
Re: Ubuntu 8.10
28-10-2008 9:52 AM
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sudo apt-get install kubuntu
Re: Ubuntu 8.10
28-10-2008 11:13 AM
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sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
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Re: Ubuntu 8.10
28-10-2008 11:31 AM
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Re: Ubuntu 8.10
28-10-2008 12:39 PM
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Re: Ubuntu 8.10
28-10-2008 1:14 PM
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Re: Ubuntu 8.10
28-10-2008 1:17 PM
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Quote from: pierre_pierre and I thought you lot said Linux was easy
There is a GUI package management feature version installed where you just tick a box.
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Re: Ubuntu 8.10
28-10-2008 2:06 PM
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I downloaded a creative X-Fi driver and went to install it and got C compiler errors.
Is this because I need to refer to the ALSA library?
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