Kubuntu 12.04 Precise Thoughts

[scrubjay]

Welcome to KFN, scrubjay. No need to wait six more days, install it now, tonight!

Thanx! LOL, I've waited this long, I guess I can wait a bit longer. Besides, my wife will forcibly drag my rear to bed if I'm not in it here shortly. I've to be at work in a little over 6 hrs. and she doesn't care to listen to me saying "Ok, I'm getting up" every five mins. for a half an hour each time she elbows my in the side to get up.

[SteveRiley]

Hm. Does your wife know my wife? Because those "techniques" sound awfully familiar!

[aybesea]

That's why all of my installs start at 11:30PM and end at 3:00AM... my wife has gone off to bed.

Seriously though... I',m running 12.04b2 from last Saturday and it is just fine. I did a dist-upgrade yesterday, and 483 packages went in with the only hitch being the yellow light bulb. Not too shabby. Certainly a better experience than the massive LMDE/Gnome3 thing that led to me finding Kubuntu 12.04. I do still have one outstanding issue left with my Intel Wifi and WPA2 authentication. I found a couple of threads here recommending WiCD as a workaround, but I'm waiting to see if a real fix comes throuh before I remove Network Manager. WEP does work, so for now that is serving me.

I can honestly say that this has been one of the smoothest Pre-Release Linuxes I've ever had the privilege to work with. And I'm still dazzled by just how slick KDE 4.8 is.

[bsniadajewski]

KDE 3.8 ? IS that some sort of unreleased version of Trinity?

[blackpaw]

macwolf74 et al,

The only issues (if you can call them that) were all self inflicted. It's taken me a while to become adjusted to the risks and joys of so much control. By this I mean, as a newbie, it is very easy to change something and not remember what I changed. So if the change doesn't work, it can be troublesome. >

I throughly recommend installing VirtualBox and setting up a full kubuntu install in that for fiddling and testing, apart from not breaking your desktop you can just take snapshots and roll back when things go pear shaped

[capt-zero]

Blackpaw,

Thanks for the tip. It's late right now, but I'll check it out tomorrow. I'd been thinking about the VM for some time, just hadn't got around to it. Just started in linux in March. It's a whole new world in computing, opened a lot of new vistas for me to explore.

Thanx,
capt-zero

[SteveRiley]

opened a lot of new vistas for me to explore

Yuk yuk.

[blackpaw]

What sort of hardware do you run capt-zero? I have a Intel i5-2500 with 8GB RAm, running 64bit kubuntu. Not high end these days, but it makes running virtual machines a quite snappy

[capt-zero]

blackpaw,

Actually mine's a little older and slower, I have an Emachine 3300+ with an AMD semipron 2400 running 32 bit at 2 GHZ with 1GB ram; one of the reasons I hadn't tried VM yet.

And steve I hadn't intended the MS Vistas reference, I just meant more new horizons. The limits I had been operating under have been considerably broadened. I'm generally too old and slow myself to tend toward punning.

capt-zero

[blackpaw]

an Emachine 3300+ with an AMD semipron 2400 running 32 bit at 2 GHZ with 1GB ram; one of the reasons I hadn't tried VM yet.

Yeh, doable but likely to be *very* sluggish

[papabearak]

Actually, you may want to try VMware Player instead. My machine is not much faster, AMD Athlon 64 2200 Mhz. VBox exhibits significant and irritating lag, along with overall slow performance, but VMware runs ver snappily, with no lag and no drag. Ben

[capt-zero]

papabearak,

Sounds interesting. I looked into it and am interested. The only problem is, that the only English sites I could find wanted me to join something in order to download it. I get enough junk mail, I'm not joining something just for the app. Do you know of any trusted sites where it's available and I don't have to give personal info in exchange for it?

capt-zero

[SteveRiley]

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=player

VMware is a cool company, you don't have to worry about getting spam from them. I haven't received a single email from them after I created my account to download the player months ago.

That said, I'd suggest you create a separate email someplace that you use precisely for these purposes. That's what I do. My Gmail account is the email address I use for personal communications, forums, and mail lists; I have a separate Yahoo account that I use only for registrations.

[papabearak]

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=player

VMware is a cool company, you don't have to worry about getting spam from them. I haven't received a single email from them after I created my account to download the player months ago.

That said, I'd suggest you create a separate email someplace that you use precisely for these purposes. That's what I do. My Gmail account is the email address I use for personal communications, forums, and mail lists; I have a separate Yahoo account that I use only for registrations.

I agree with SteveRiley. VMware is a cool company and will not spam you, so by all means, download the player directly from their site. I also keep a Yahoo mail account as a junk-mail catcher, and give the Yahoo addy to any web site that insists on registration, then I just check the yahoo mail account once a week or so to delete all the accumulated junk messages. This keeps a lot of spam from ever reaching my Gmail account, which I use for correspondence that I actually want. Ben

[blackpaw]

Actually, you may want to try VMware Player instead. My machine is not much faster, AMD Athlon 64 2200 Mhz. VBox exhibits significant and irritating lag, along with overall slow performance, but VMware runs ver snappily, with no lag and no drag. Ben

Good luck getting it installed on precise. Did not feel like trolling the forums for the necessary kernel patches.