Re: Potential Libranet Replacement (was: Re: [Hampshire] [AD…

On Friday 05 Jan 2007 18:38, Alan Pope wrote:
> I would gladly help you get Kubuntu on the machine. I'm sure it can be
> convinced to install by hook or crook :)
>
> Please don't feel I am pressuring you to switch, just offering help if
> you want it.

For the moment I am exploring where to go next and was trying the Live CD in
my main machine - but don't for the moment want to change. I do want to get
several distros onto another machine, both to give me some practice at
installing dual/triple booting and to have a good look at some of the distros
on offer; and it is certainly my intention to have KUbuntu as one of them -
and I might well be glad of some help in the future!

But it may well come in as the solution to my other problem. (The WINE, QEMU
one.) I wanted my husband to have Libranet 3 because it certainly does
everything that he wants of it (and more) and I am familiar with it and was
easily able to configure it to suit him.

But I may now have hit something that Libranet 3 won't do :-(. I hope not -
and would certainly be happy to install from source. But I hope that I do
not need to say that if I have to install another OS I would rather
absolutely any Linux OS - even SuSE, with which I did not get on at all -
than the Opposition. I'll just need to check what aspects of his box my
husband likes and configure any other install to do the same. Basically, I
think it is KDE and Linux that are important, and not the precise distro.
And I would be glad to have a working KUbuntu box to look at. (And only KDE
because it is what I am most familiar with.)

> > I even tried Xubuntu on my laptop.  Surprise, surprise it wouldn't
> > install.
>
> If you want to bring that along we can try that too. What spec is it?

Pentium III 133MHz, 128 MB, ?10 GB HDD.

Currently running a fairly bare install of Sarge - but with KDE, which leaves
me in my comfort zone - but makes the thing crawl. :-( I fancied trying
something lighter and looking at a new window manager. I could have helped
with that by installing Puppy, but I use the Live CD quite often, so it
wouldn't have been really new. Anyway, I wanted to give Ubuntu another
chance. ;-)

Yes, I'll bring it along because I would genuinely like to have XUbuntu on it
- but I may keep it out of sight. Isn't 2 computers just a tad greedy? ;-)

> > I don't think Ubuntu likes me. :-(
>
> It's a two way street - it wants to be loved back :)

When I met Ubuntu I had already lost my heart to Another. ;-(

Thanks for all your help.

Lisi