A friend of mine has had his PCLinuxOS installation crap out on him. He is going to live overseas for a while, so I'm not going to be able to support him directly in the future (aside from over the Internet). I want to give him something more reliable (PCLinuxOS is still in beta and is prone to breakage), so I was thinking I could wipe the system partitions (keeping /home) and install Ubuntu instead.
This raises even more questions. He is leaving in two months, a little before the official Dapper release. Would it be better if I install Breezy or Dapper for him? Dapper looks like it's close to maturation, but having never tried it (I use Breezy) I can't say for sure. Is Dapper solid enough for me to have a reliable system by installing the latest Flight CD and then updating to whatever is on the mirrors? Will there be a smooth update process from the Flight alphas to the final Dapper release? Another thing is that my friend is currently a KDE user. What is the state of KDE in Dapper at the moment? Should I be considering Kubuntu instead? I don't think he'll mind using GNOME for a while until KDE matures, and he might even prefer it in the long run. Finally, he has an AMD64 machine. Is it worth installing the 64-bit version instead of the 32-bit one? My friend is quite computer literate and a fast learner. His GNU/Linux experience is mostly GUI-based, but he knows the basics of the command line and isn't afraid to use it if he needs to. Cheers -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "... what was once a grudging bargain with the world's stabilising hegemon country is now widely seen as a lingering subsidy for a predator state." - Economist James K. Galbraith describing US trade deficits, 2004-12-06
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