Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

[PJJ]

Kubuntu 10.04 has been with me since the very beginnings. Long before it became Alpha and then the final version. It was with a few memorable exceptions a smooth experience. Many of the mishaps along the way were actually operator created.

Now it poses no longer a challenge. It has graduated to my working system.

Time to seek out some new challenge. Therefore I just installed 10.10, Maverick Meerkat. In fact, this post comes to you compliments of the Meerkat.

So far, it looks pretty good, though somewhat unusual. Mostly because it is the gnome version, I guess.
But who cares?
It installed smoothly and worked right out of the box. Even the Internet connection worked right out of the box on a wired network. Have not installed the wireless yet, but I am convinced that it will be no problem either.

All those of you who like the challenge of a surprise crash in the morning, 10.10 is a contest to consider.

[SIR_Taco]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

It installed smoothly and worked right out of the box. Even the Internet connection worked right out of the box on a wired network. Have not installed the wireless yet, but I am convinced that it will be no problem either.

Give it time

Honestly though, like yourself, I also started with Lucid very early on (alpha 1 or pre-alpha can't remember) on my non-critical system. I had very few problems other than a few oddities here or there. The alpha/beta releases have been quite stable (on my hardware at least) over the last year and I would assume that has to do with KDE4 maturing a great deal.

Cheers

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

If you're bored with the OS itself, there's always kde-4.5-beta. Lots of, uhh, challenges there.

[PJJ]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

Yes, I agree.
I had my share of it.

But a new OS version sounds more challenging. So far, it is running just fine. But that will change.
Also, I could only get the Gnome version. It takes a little to get accustomed to it.

Now, if someone could tell me how to get KDE 4.5 with the new kernel the situation might change.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

You need to add the kubuntu-experimental repository.
Whether there is a live repo for maverick, I don't know. I suppose you could activate the one for lucid, install kubuntu-desktop, and then deactivate the repo.
To do this, put this in your sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa...imental/ubuntu lucid main
There is a "proper "way to install it, but I can't find the howto at the moment.

PS Interesting site that will generate a sources.list file based on choosing items from a menu:
http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/

[PJJ]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

Thank you for the information.
I will add experimental to the sources replacing 'lucid' with maverick. It worked for the other repos.

Don't know whether I am brave enough to tackle KDE right away.
My experience tells me that many of the problems are found in that.

We will see and I will post again.
So far (and with Gnome) 10.10 works surprisingly well. the Chromium browser bothers me though, it is jittery and slow when scrolling down a page.

[Fintan]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

Kubuntu Maveric:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily/current/

[jepong]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

are there any problems you encountered upgrading KDE 4.4 to KDE 4.5 beta 1 on Lucid?

[Fintan]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

I did the "experimental":
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3112198.0
on lucid

and a fresh ionstall of maveric.

No show stoppers here.

In Maveric the network widget is behaving and the persistance of klipper has been addressed in
the 4.4.81.

All in all fast, snappy with lots of little / big enhancements to explore.

[PJJ]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

Alpha is supposed to be out 06/03, isn't it?

I will wait for it and then make a fresh install of the Alpha. Right now I am using a daily build from about a week ago (with updates).
But for some reason it is not Kubuntu but Ubuntu.

Fintan, my fresh install also went through without a hitch. So far everything is fine and wroking smoothly - but trouble will surely come sooner or later.

[Fintan]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

Nice isn't it?
Daily:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily/current/

[PJJ]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

You need to add the kubuntu-experimental repository.
. . .
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa...imental/ubuntu lucid main
There is a "proper "way to install it, but I can't find the howto at the moment.

PS Interesting site that will generate a sources.list file based on choosing items from a menu:
http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/

OK, tried that and it did not work. However, I downloaded the most recent daily build and re-installed 10.10 with the KDE desktop.
Everything went fine and without a hitch. Even the network-manager connected right out of the box - to a wired connection. The test will be wireless, once I can remember my login and key!

Only shock: Application opened and closed very slowly with the upcoming or disappearing windows slowly sliding in or out, getting transparent and doing a jitterbug on the way.
Excruciatingly slow.
Disabled desktop effect in system settings. Problem solved.
By the way, 1.7 gig RAM and 2.6 MHz CPU.

Thanks again for the hint. And the website mentioned above is most interesting. Does not yet work for Maverick though.

[Fintan]

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In my Kubuntu maveric (10.10 alpha) I can't set the sent / recipient column.

Kontact Version 4.4.3

I have it my Kubuntu kde4.5 beta1 test on 10.04.

Any ideas?

[jwhibdon]

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I installed Kubuntu Maverick 10.10 yesterday. Very clean install works well so far. It has KDE 4.5 beta 1 out of the box. I don't like the way the desktop works. When you try to put a directory on the desktop it ask about a shelve or Icon I chose the shelve. It does not work like before and I am not sure I like it, well I am sure I don't. Maybe it will change.

Found the problem. You have to install Folder View then all works as before.

sudo apt-get install plasma-widget-folderview

[BigCityCat]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 no longer a challenge. Moving on to 10.10

You need to add the kubuntu-experimental repository.
. . .
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa...imental/ubuntu lucid main
There is a "proper "way to install it, but I can't find the howto at the moment.

PS Interesting site that will generate a sources.list file based on choosing items from a menu:
http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/

OK, tried that and it did not work. However, I downloaded the most recent daily build and re-installed 10.10 with the KDE desktop.
Everything went fine and without a hitch. Even the network-manager connected right out of the box - to a wired connection. The test will be wireless, once I can remember my login and key!

Only shock: Application opened and closed very slowly with the upcoming or disappearing windows slowly sliding in or out, getting transparent and doing a jitterbug on the way.
Excruciatingly slow.
Disabled desktop effect in system settings. Problem solved.
By the way, 1.7 gig RAM and 2.6 MHz CPU.

Thanks again for the hint. And the website mentioned above is most interesting. Does not yet work for Maverick though.

I had that slow desktop experience as well. I changed to the propreitary nvidia driver and removed one of the panels. One of those actions solved it.