
Kubuntu
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Kubuntu is a user friendly operating system based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. With a predictable 6 month release cycle part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu is the GNU/Linux distribution for everyone.
14 years ago
Kubuntu 6.10 comes with KDE 3.5.5, Digikam installed by default, new power management and laptop button support, accessibility profiles and bling new artwork.
14 years ago
Kubuntu 6.10 comes with KDE 3.5.5, Digikam installed by default, new power management and laptop button support, accessibility profiles and bling new artwork.
Divilinux
14 years ago
i use kubuntu even because the WHOLE framework bluetooth is very hard to reproduce in a distro that doesnt' have..
and on kubuntu works perfectely..why cut off this?..;)
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Znurre
14 years ago
Well, not many Linux distros are styleish right out of the box, but Kubuntu is really ugly. The new "upstart" sounds good indeed.
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dbd
14 years ago
And of course, adept is as great as ever, and the ubuntu wiki seems to have the answer to almost any question you could think of!
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aladrin
14 years ago
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angrykeyboarder
15 years ago
There's nothing wrong with bluetooth, but since everyone doesn't need or use it, why make it a default?
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bsander
14 years ago
If you care so much about that it's great that you can uninstall it yourself. If you want absolute control about packages, go use Gentoo or something.
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blurymind
15 years ago
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blurymind
15 years ago
I though this website was for kde/qt apps.Is Kubuntu team so much in need to get their distro´s popularity boost?
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thomax
15 years ago
CD:
http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php
DVD:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/breezy/release/
Because the current link is dead for me :(
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jpetso
15 years ago
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matt-matrus
15 years ago
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mehmetb
15 years ago
Cheers to Kubuntu Team!
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thomax
15 years ago
So no bad words about Kubuntu, it's just GREAT !!!
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genjix
15 years ago
email genjix at gmail ddot com if you want more info.
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Jefis
16 years ago
it pretty sucks that rpm is not supported, but all software, libs etc i get from there server, it's great, my desktop looks real good.
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mehmetb
15 years ago
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catmandu
16 years ago
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philipacamaniac
16 years ago
Kubuntu may be lacking a few key utilities that Ubuntu has (update-notify, simpler package manager), but it is a great distro, especially considering this is its first release.
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borisb
16 years ago
sudo passwd root
enter your user password, and then it will ask for the root-password u want.
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catmandu
16 years ago
In the default install you can just open a root terminal and you are asked for a password. In kubunto you are asked for the password but verification fails. As well, when you attempt to sudo you are asked for a password that also seems to fail except that the program that you are executing with sudo appears to continue on.
This is somewhat similar to Mac OSX where the root is shielded from the users and you have to take some purposeful steps to get it to allow you to log in as root.
Another odd thing is that when you go and boot under the default install (which is gnome) and try to do their kubunto install you are told that you need certain dependencies but when you go to mark those dependencies (using synaptic that is) it tells you the dependencies can't be marked because other dependencies aren't met. When you try to resolve those other dependencies you get nailed with the OS trying to uninstall gnome, heh.
I've looked at Ubunto and it look real nice from the standpoint of the average Joe and Jane (Mom and Pop), except that gnome is confusing, limited, and slow and ugly. The features to maintain it aren't there and configuration is a pain.
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kwr2k
16 years ago
This is one project which is going to rock :-)
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dchipper
16 years ago
The FAQ on the kubunto homepage tells me to use the default user's password for actions that needed root priviliges, but that didn't work and neither did any of the other more or less obvious options that did come to mind.
So I was left with a basically unusable install.
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kwr2k
16 years ago
sudo apt-get update
rather than
su -
apt-get update
The difference is (at least on Kubuntu) that you have to enter your own password and not the root one.
So if my username is scott and password tiger, I would enter tiger when sudo prompts me for a password.
The same applies when you run a gui program that requires "root" password.
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raphink
16 years ago
Instead you are supposed to using sudo for root operations. This is one of the numerous reasons which made me switch to Debian after 2 painful hours on Ubuntu ;)
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vide
16 years ago
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