[Discuss] Trying Ubuntu

[John Blomfield]

On a related topic one of my motivations for trying Ubuntu is because I 
mentioned to someone at the meeting that I couldn't get Firefox to work 
with java plugins which are needed by some web sites and they suggested 
that Ubuntu doesn't have this problem.  Googling this problem seems to 
suggest that it might also have a problem.  Has anyone had a similar 
experience or better still a solution?

John Blomfield

John Blomfield wrote:
> Since joining VLUG I have been interested, as a long time Fedora user, 
> in the fact that everyone at VLUG seems to be using Ubuntu so I 
> decided to have a look at the beast.  I have loaded it onto a 
> partition on my old computer that I use for backup.  It doesn't really 
> matter which distro I use here because I only use it to do some basic 
> admin stuff of the partitions where I dump my backups from my mission 
> critical computers.  I guess I was a little naive but I was surprised 
> to find no KDE available!  Am I correct in thinking I have to use a 
> different distro i.e. Kbuntu to get KDE or is there some work-around 
> to get it on Ubuntu? Unfortunately, unless a distro has KDE and 
> KDevelop its a non-starter for me.  I notice however that Ubuntu 
> includes Qt 3 and 4 and a number of other kxxxxx applications so in 
> principle it should be able to handle KDE?
>
> John Blomfield
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