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Success Upgrading to Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex

Friday, November 28, 2008

I’ve resisted too long. Finally I was coerced into it. After having spent a lot of time on a different project, I’ve tried to spend a little more time in KDE 4, and then Konqueror stopped working. It would give me a fatal error every time i tried opening. I found someone else reporting the [...]

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KDE4 Install in Kubuntu Improves Performance

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

I first installed KDE4 yesterday, and I’ve been impressed with it. Not in the ways I expected, but at the same time disappointed and frustrated in other ways I was not ready for. Ctrl-F12 fortunately doesnt require three keys on the left hand for a normal US keyboard, but instead does require both hands, almost [...]

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Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Upgrade Crashed

Monday, October 29, 2007

What a disappointment. I’ve previously written about experiencing the Blank Screen Bug in Gutsy with the Release Candidate CD. Today, I was forced to experience that the problem is still there on the official release. I used Adept Manager to update 16 packages it noticed that were behind. After the update, it finally figured out [...]

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Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon is released

Thursday, October 18, 2007

With the release of Kubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon, it’s now time to get started on the update. I’ve been trying for two days and I haven’t been able to get Adept Manager to recognize that there’s a new update. I am not able to devote very much time to it, so I’ll continue to try [...]

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Gutsy Gibbon Release Candidate is Suitable for install by every user.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Great news! The Release Candidate of Ubuntu and Kubuntu 7.10 code-named “Gutsy Gibbon” is available for install and is suitable for testing by any user. The complete official documentation on the upgrade is available for review. I didn’t see the expected updates I was looking for mentioned, but I just skimmed it. I have always [...]

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