Thanks to Man-Wai and Alan: I shall look at both , setting aside a day next week to do so. To be fair to Modzilla Ubuntu was so easy to put up in its early versions I did very little reading up. I built a BSD 4.2 system years ago on MicroBar Boards and Sugart Drives and was delighted with the of install offered by Ubuntu.
Thank you both again. William. On 04/08/12 15:29, Alan Bourke wrote: > Mint is nice, however to do a major version upgrade you have to back up > your files and settings to an external HDD, then re-install the new > version from scratch and then restore. Screw that. > > William - are you aware that you don't have to use the Unity UI with > Ubuntu? You can use KDE instead, for example: > > http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/04/14/how-to-install-kde-desktop-on-ubuntu-12-04/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

