Todd Walton wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Akshay Lamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's interesting. I guess you always have the option of installing the >> server iso and apt-get the KDE packages. > > No, they've released a new version of Kubuntu. But they are not going > to support it for long term (LTS) like they will Ubuntu. They said > the reason was because KDE 4 is just out and not stable yet.
Sounds reasonable to me really. Too hard to support something for 3 years when it's : a) still shiny and relatively unstable (read as codebase is still moving rapidly as apps get ported) b) not core-business.. remember, Ubuntu core business is the gnome distribution. I'm gonna have a crack at upgrading this 6.06 LTS machine (with loads of backported packages and other hackery) to 8.04 in the next day or so. It'll be interesting to see if it breaks. On the subject of this machine, the hard disk decided to give up the ghost. It's a 1.8" 4200RPM 60GB drive, so not an off the shelf item by any means. I had backed up the machine at 8pm the previous night, and the drive just went off into click-click land at 2pm the following day. I suspected it was starting to look flaky so I'd ordered a replacement drive from the US 3 day Fedex express and run regular backups. I really needed the e-mail I'd collected since the last backup though.. what to do.. I've used the old freezer trick before.. take the drive out, whack it in the freezer and chill it down before trying to read data off it.. but in this case it was not looking good as, as soon as the drive got above about 3 degrees C it started to flake out again. Putting the laptop in the freezer was a no-go. Long story short (yeah yeah) I remembered my iRiver h340 has the same physical size drive with the same connector, so stripping the iRiver down to bare board I fitted the drive, plugged in a USB and PSU cable and stuck the whole thing in a "Glad" sandwich bag sealed with cellotape. Popped the whole lot in the freezer and ran the cables out through the door seal. Chilled it down and plugged it in. Whadda ya know. Keeping the whole drive at -4C enabled me to read the entire contents off error free and create a gzipped dd image of the drive. New drive arrived at 10am this morning and was installed and restored in less than 2 hours! We are back on line with no data loss. And as a bonus the iRiver went back together and worked (I had expected to have damaged it with moisture and condensation when I removed it from the freezer). rsync, dd_rescue, dd, nc and gzip are fantastic data recovery tools :) Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
