My old system (Mandriva 2005 LE) had a hardware failure, so I decided it was a great time to move to Kubuntu 9.10, built from scratch on all new (to linux) hardware.
Background: I'm a Sr. Systems Administrator, in the business of contract Linux server administration, but even after all these years, I still consider myself a beginner on the Linux Desktop. However I haven't used MSWindows in years and I've never used Mac OS. My laptop runs the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and I have no problems with it.
I didn't just restore my old home directory; I understand the dangers. I moved files I needed (but no configurations at all) and I imported my Kmail email directories into my new Kmail installation. The only configuration I moved verbatim were my Kalarm files.
Old hardware was (I'm going from memory here) 1GB of memory, a 3Ghz Intel P4.
New hardware is 2GB of memory, AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4600+. It's just an office desktop and I figured this would be enough, but maybe I'm wrong. I can't find where I'm supposed to set up my video hardware, but a check for drivers says no proprietary drivers are found on the system.
At least twice a day my session has been closing on me, no matter what I'm doing, and even when top shows I've got plenty of memory left.
One problem I've noticed: KAlarm open alarms show up on the task manager panel (I think that's what it's called) even when I'm on a different desktop.
Sometimes when I start up Kontact (I run kmail from inside Kontact) kmail takes up to an hour or more before it becomes responsive enough to use, and if I click on a folder on the left side, then the folder contents starts scrolling uncontrollably.
I do have over 6GB of email in the various folders, all imported by kmail.
And when I don't run kmail, the system doesn't crash.
Anyone else notice any similar problems?
Jeff
Background: I'm a Sr. Systems Administrator, in the business of contract Linux server administration, but even after all these years, I still consider myself a beginner on the Linux Desktop. However I haven't used MSWindows in years and I've never used Mac OS. My laptop runs the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and I have no problems with it.
I didn't just restore my old home directory; I understand the dangers. I moved files I needed (but no configurations at all) and I imported my Kmail email directories into my new Kmail installation. The only configuration I moved verbatim were my Kalarm files.
Old hardware was (I'm going from memory here) 1GB of memory, a 3Ghz Intel P4.
New hardware is 2GB of memory, AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4600+. It's just an office desktop and I figured this would be enough, but maybe I'm wrong. I can't find where I'm supposed to set up my video hardware, but a check for drivers says no proprietary drivers are found on the system.
At least twice a day my session has been closing on me, no matter what I'm doing, and even when top shows I've got plenty of memory left.
One problem I've noticed: KAlarm open alarms show up on the task manager panel (I think that's what it's called) even when I'm on a different desktop.
Sometimes when I start up Kontact (I run kmail from inside Kontact) kmail takes up to an hour or more before it becomes responsive enough to use, and if I click on a folder on the left side, then the folder contents starts scrolling uncontrollably.
I do have over 6GB of email in the various folders, all imported by kmail.
And when I don't run kmail, the system doesn't crash.
Anyone else notice any similar problems?
Jeff
; It's business email going back to 2005, (and in some cases earlier). Some years ago when Avi Friedman, creator of the mailing list called simply list, used by ISPs since ISPs existed (that was '95, when the Internet became commercial), found he needed a copy of his complete archive, I had it for him. I guess you could call me a pack rat.
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I am using the KDE4 version, and IIRC, my templates came over from KDE3 without memorable difficulties (but that was over a year ago). I find that even when no alarms are scheduled, the little red alarm clock shows up in (what I think is called) the system tray on all desktops. The reason is that the system tray is on the kicker panel and that remains constant regardless of what you've done to or on your desktops. The kalarm icon reminds me that kalarm is still sopping up a couple of bytes of RAM. It's like Amarok in that it won't go away unless you really, REALLY want it to. So, if it bothers you, right click on the icon and left click "quit", or left click it and type ctl-Q.
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