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KDE4 using the livecd

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I have yet to upgrade to KDE4 in Kubuntu. I have spent sime time with it in the LiveCD though. So far, it’s been an experience. I like some of the new features in Konqueror. The new Kickoff menu almost obsoletes katapult, but doesn’t quite make it. It requires the use of keystrokes with [...]

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Kubuntu LTS Put On Hold for Hardy Heron

Sunday, December 30, 2007

There’s been a great rift with the Canonical Community as of late surrounding Kubuntu. The update from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4.0 is such a great shift that Canonical feels they’re unable to commit to Long Term Support for Kubuntu 8.04. Frankly, I don’ blame them. This is a pretty good move for them as [...]

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Init: Error parsing configuration no such file or directory

Friday, December 21, 2007

I recently got a new Dell laptop, an Inspiron 1520. It came pre-loaded of course with Vista. I of course wanted Kubuntu on it, and that’s been an adventure.
Now… first things first. I setup the notebook using Vista and made sure that everything worked. Fortunately, everything worked… and worked perfectly.
Next, I moved into using GParted/CloneZilla [...]

Filed in 1520, Bugs, Dell, GParted, Hardy Heron, Inspiron, Kubuntu, Laptop, Launchpad, LiveCD, Vista, Windows, ntfs | Comments (0)

Hardy Heron Coming Soon

Thursday, December 6, 2007

With the release of Hardy Heron’s Alpha1 ISO, I thought it wise to check the release schedule as I’m trying to get a friend switched, and he’s got the Feisty disk. I did get the Kubuntu Hardy disk burned for him.
Having two computers, I’m ready to begin testing Hardy on one of them… I think… [...]

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