And that laptop hasn't frozen or experienced any slowdown that I've noticed... :-)
On Jun 13, 10:57 am, "Rob Kaufman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
