Hi Scott, Instead of jumping OSes or Distros, I'd suggest you run the updates for Kubuntu. I put Kubuntu w/ KDE 4 on a laptop the other day and once I ran all the current updates didn't see any freezing. Don't let the fan boys get you down ;-)
Rob On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Ian Serlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try Linux Mint (www.linuxmint.com). I like the XFCE version personally, > but LM5 only has Gnome at this point, although you could install others > yourself later on. It's based on Ubuntu distributions. Anyway, I think > you'll like it if you liked KDE. > > > > Smiling, > > > > Ian Serlin > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Scott Olmsted > *Sent:* Friday, June 13, 2008 6:59 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [SDRuby] Re: Kubuntu w/KDE4 - not so good so far > > > > A fellow named Justus had a "Delltosh" at the first SDRuby meeting I > attended last December, I think, but it took some serious hacking to fool > Leopard into thinking it was running on Mac hardware or that it didn't need > it. > > Since I recently replaced two PC's with very fast machines, my computer > budget is depleted, so I will try one more time with Linux, but thanks for > the idea. > > Scott > > At 11:26 PM 6/12/2008, you wrote: > > I heard mac os on a windows machine is something people do quite easily > nowadays, it will cost you $100 something but it will be rock solid. > > -Matt > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Scott Olmsted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone asked me on IRC today how Ubuntu was going and left before I got > back to them. > > Actually, not so good, mostly from my inexperience with Linux (kind of > ironic, I used Unix exclusively for a couple years in the 80's, before bash, > and before years of Windoze wiped out what I knew), but partly because I > chose the latest version of Kubuntu (8.04 with KDE4), which freezes > occasionally. Apparently this is a known problem, and the advice I found > online is to wait for version 4.2 of KDE (now on version 4.04). > > So, should I try 8.04 with "rock solid" KDE3? Should I go back to 7.04? > Should I skip KDE and just use Ubuntu 7.04? > > Thx, > > Scott > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
