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
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