Star Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10: New Features
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Aug 2007 15:57 UTC, submitted by luna6
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu "This article will briefly discuss the new features found within Gutsy Gibbon and hopefully give you a better idea of what to expect when the final version of Gutsy Gibbons is released in October. Some of the more notable new features are a Graphical Configuration tool for X, improvements in plug-in handling for Mozilla Firefox, revamped printing system with PDF printing by default, fast user switching, new desktop search (Tracker) application and the new AppArmor security framework."
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RE[2]: More interested in KDE4...
by Redeeman on Mon 27th Aug 2007 17:53 UTC in reply to "RE: More interested in KDE4..."
Redeeman
Member since:
2006-03-23

not to mention how ubuntu/kubuntu's kde packages are utterly useless compared to other distributions kde..

in ubuntu/kubuntu kde is unstable and acts totally weird..

in short, if you want a real quality DE, you have to avoid *ubuntu, as their kde packages are simply broken.

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starnix Member since:
2006-05-12

"Oooh, Look at the shiny. It must be better."

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AdolescentFred Member since:
2006-07-17

not to mention how ubuntu/kubuntu's kde packages are utterly useless compared to other distributions kde..

in ubuntu/kubuntu kde is unstable and acts totally weird..


I don't find this at all. I used Gentoo for years and so compiled KDE from source and I have found it at least the same now I have switched to Kubuntu. It might be that Kubuntu just ship vanilla KDE, whilst other distros tidy things up a bit (I have little experience with any others) but I certainly wouldn't call it unstable, and nor does it act weird..

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zombie process Member since:
2005-07-08

Kubuntu's KDE is about as "vanilla" as Rocky Road. That said, I've been pretty pleased with Feisty.

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sumguy231 Member since:
2007-03-08

I use Kubuntu and KDE is actually completely stable here. You could say that KDE is the least of my worries. ;) Remember, your mileage will always vary from other users. Diff'rent strokes, sometimes you feel like a nut, etc. Actually, Kubuntu Feisty has pretty much the most stable KDE desktop I've ever used.

In short, you're wrong.

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DeadFishMan Member since:
2006-01-09

I use Kubuntu and KDE is actually completely stable here. You could say that KDE is the least of my worries. ;) Remember, your mileage will always vary from other users. Diff'rent strokes, sometimes you feel like a nut, etc. Actually, Kubuntu Feisty has pretty much the most stable KDE desktop I've ever used.

In short, you're wrong.


Unless the Kubuntu guys stopped borking KDE as they used to do in previous releases, I simply cannot believe that statement at all. Kubuntu is probably the worst implementation of KDE that I have ever seen in my life and I have been using Linux for over 10 years already.

Take a look at this post of mine - http://www4.osnews.com/permalink?206065 - and then read the follow-ups to have a better picture of what I endured during my brief time with Kubuntu. Now, that was Dapper and I realize that most of those problems have been addressed already but I haven't seen anything recently that suggests that Kubuntu is not receiving Ubuntu-specific patches anymore therefore it is a little hard to believe that these sorts of things are gone for good now.

I'm using Debian Testing in my desktop now ever since and I couldn't be happier!

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