[Discuss] Trying Ubuntu

[John Blomfield]

Thanks for all the feed back Steve, Matt and Patrick.  Progress to date 
is as follows:
Got Ubuntu working ok and beginning to find my way around it.  Have not 
had much success with apt-get command line, it seems to install and then 
hangs at the end with a strange looking GUI embedded in the terminal 
giving you a long message and an <Ok> at the bottom which is none 
response.  The only way to unlock the brick is to close the terminal 
which breaks the install.  The standard package manager is useless and 
unresponsive but the Synaptic Package Manager is great!  Got 
Kubuntu-desktop installed ok but not that impressed so far.  Have also 
installed 'sun-java6-plugin' but Firefox is not recognizing java plugins 
as per the sun verification web site 
http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp which provides a test for 
the correct configuration.  Ubuntu obviously has the same bug problem as 
Fedora in this respect.  Both groups I think are working on it.  
Nautilus is much improved since the last time I tried it but still isn't 
up to konqueror standards yet.  Ubuntu has a nice Gnome feel to it 
although I haven't used Gnome too much.  My first impression of Kubuntu 
is that it has a long way to go before its up to Fedora's KDE desktop.  
I would perhaps have kept it on my backup computer a little longer but I 
need a test bed for the latest Fedora 8 that's just arrived.  I guess 
its just what you get use to, like beer.

John Blomfield



Steve Nelson wrote:
> I am a Kubuntu user, and can confirm that browser plugins are a non-issue. 
> Just use Adept Manager (or the command line) to install whatever you want.
>
> You will want to enable the medibuntu repositories if you want to get all the 
> non-free plugins like Adobe Reader and others, but everything works as 
> advertised.
>
> That being said -- other posters have mentioned doing a sudo apt-get install 
> kde-desktop on Ubuntu. This should also have the desired effect for you of 
> getting KDE running on a base Ubuntu install.
>
> HTH
> Steve
>
> On November 14, 2007 17:26:38 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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