[Glastonbury] Kunbuntu

[peter.t.cole at lineone.net]

>Another group I belong to recommends installing Ubuntu and then doing
>apt-get install kde-desktop  Anyone any views on that? 

Yes i've seen that to, i have not tried it so i don't know if it is any better.

 what i do like is the auto mounitng of devices , usb cd etc that come up
on the scrren as an icon. 

Peter 

>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 12:48:32 +0100
>From: Tony Sumner <tony at whittycat.me.uk>
>To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury (LUGOG)"
>	<glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Glastonbury] Kunbuntu
>Reply-To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury (LUGOG)"
>	<glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>
>
>On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:36:18AM +0100, peter.t.cole at lineone.net wrote:
>
>> I have been trying Kunbutu ( i can never remeber how it is spelt !!)
>
>Kubuntu -- but I've left the subject alone for threading reasons :-)
>
>I've got Kubuntu and I like it a lot. It didn't recognise my sound
>card which is Creative AWE64 but the Wiki tells you where to get the
>sb_awe driver so that's not a big problem. 
>
>> when you frist log on you are geeted with well nothing just a task bar
>
>
>I am happy not to have a lot of icons; it is not hard to ask KDE to
>create the icons you want and you don't get a lot that you don't want.
>
>The only thing wrong is that on shutdown it disables the power switch,
>ie I can't use it to turn the machine off and I have to turn it off 
>with the little red switch at the back. Weird. How does one program
>the power switch? 
>
>Another group I belong to recommends installing Ubuntu and then doing
>apt-get install kde-desktop  Anyone any views on that? 
>Tony Sumner
>
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