[Klug-general] Baffled by Kubuntu networking

[Mike Evans]

An interesting featurette of both Ubuntu and Kbuntu is that the nfs 
client is not installed by default and must be added through the package 
manager.  Once you have done that you can access NFS filesystems 
elsewhere without problems.

I use Fedora on my main server and Ubuntu on my laptop.  The only 
tantara around Ubuntu is that they have done some very smart work around 
hardware detection and they are not quite so stuck up about non-free 
software.  This means that if you happen to have a graphics or network 
adapter which requires some firmware for its on-board processor which is 
not available as source code they don't have a problem supplying it to 
you.  As a consequence Ubuntu users generally find installation and 
initial operations a smoother experience than many other disto users. 
That's about it.