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I just tried the Kubuntu live CD last night and was very impressed by how solid it was and well thought the apps selected were.

I really love Kubuntu - it's proven to be a quick, stable, fast, lightweight (for KDE 3.4.2), and unbloated (doesn't come with TONS of programs like MDK and all).

Of course with APT and the Kubuntu Guide http://kudos.berlios.de/kf/ , you can add just about anything with ease

It's truly my favorite distro for all these reasons and more...They DID have some repo issues a while back, but all of that is resolved and I've so far converted four relative novices to Kubuntu...I say keep up the great work!

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It's been happily installed on my new laptop for a few weeks, and it rocks.

My only gripe: there aren't as many GUI configuration tools as on Ubuntu (though you can use the GTK2 ones from within KDE) for system setup. It'd be nice if there was the equivalent of YaST or the Mandrake Control Center for Kubuntu. Configure-Debian is quite good, but newbies feel less intimidated by GUI tools...

Kubuntu is incredible. Like the other posters, I would love to have the Kubuntu guys port Yast, now that it's open source.

It should be a small task, no more than 6-8 weeks for it to be ported and it would give them an incredible usability edge over most other distributions.

Kubuntu is much lighter than Suse, although both are very good.

I like their new Config center, much more simple.
For system tools, you might want to have a look at Guidance, http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidance . For what I have understood, it will probably be included in Breezy. It would be great if it could also be integrated in their new config center and not only in Kcontrol.

The first Kubuntu release was nice, but the one with 3.5 will be just awesome. I hope that it will be in the next release.

configured Qt -- at least, that I know of. When I attended Jonathan on the fact that Debian Qt packages are configured without Wacom tablet support, he quickly made the correct packages available and told me they'd go into mainstream. And without tablet support, you get only half the fun of Krita.

Kubuntu rocks!

I wish I could marry Kubuntu!

As far as I know, Debian guys are already working on porting Yast. All (K)Ubuntu needs to do is wait a bit and take it. Why bother working...

Kubuntu is very nice, but IMO it has nowhere near the polish level of ubuntu. I was personally a little shocked when they released it non-beta back when hoary was released - it was nowhere near ready back then. It has come a long way since then, but has a ways to go before it will have the "fit and finish" ubuntu does. Still, I use it daily and like it a lot.

When are you guys going to consolidate your technology?

Rather than constantly making *another* variant, make something that works out of the box and doesn't require any terminal work to be fully functional.

For the ones that are using laptops mostly, I have tried Kubuntu(Hoary) on my laptop, and it has given many errors while installing and X server failed to start. However eventhough it is said to be the same solid base and code, Ubuntu installed and worked perfectly on the same hardware. Seems like Kubuntu is not as stable or mature as Ubuntu is at the moment. I would suggest first time or less experienced users to try Ubuntu instead of Kubuntu(at least now). Don't listen to those flames like Kubuntu rocks, Kubuntu great blah blah... I am sure its good, however not yet as good as Ubuntu

What I did is install Ubuntu, then use apt-get to add the Kubuntu-desktop packages. This seems to be more stable then installing Kubuntu from the get-go. Also, though I was never a fan of Gnome, I like the Ubuntu presentation of Gnome (though I still prefer KDE).

Moderator: Would you be kind enough to do something about anonymous posters and their comments. They are sort of like Binky users. Maybe give them an automatic -5 rating.

Thanks!