[Hampshire] Re: Potential Libranet Replacement

hantslug@??? wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

Perhaps the most important thing about choosing a new distro is
identifying what it is about Libranet that you like. You can then make
your decision based on finding a distro that offers similar features.

James