Volune in KDE and other minor issues

[Dotan Cohen]

On 25/06/06, Joe Hart <j.hart at hccnet.nl> wrote:

> 1) The link for fixing konqueror:  http://www.kubuntu.org/faq.php

I can't believe I missed that. I'm digging all over the place and it's
on the faq page! That makes me say something phonetically similar to
faq...

> 2) You can't make anything with the standard kubuntu, even if you
> apt-get install make, you're still out cold.  Do this instead:  sudo
> apt-get install build-essential

Oh. Hmm. Thanks, I'll most certainly need that.

> That will install make and several other packages you need to compile
> things.  I really think the compilers should be on the main CD.  I can
> understand space requirements, but I'd rather have the ability to
> compile from source than to have 3 different web browsers, etc.

Maybe they could delete apt-get and stick _another_ browser in there?
Really, I agree that make should be part of the base system.

> No matter how much I complain about K/Ubuntu I find myself coming back
> to it.  I have one of the AMD64 chips that is defective (apparently) so
> all the 32 bit Linux distros run too fast.  I gave up trying to fix it
> since it's a 64 bit computer, I shouldn't need to hack to get a 32 bit
> system to work on it.  Out of all the distros that work with true 64
> bit, K/Ubuntu leads the way.

I plan on keeping [k]ubuntu around even if I do make the leap to
Gentoo. I know that I need a stable system and a system that the wife
can administer if I'm not around. And I'll need a way to get online
when I get stuck with Gentoo! I've very little Linux experience and
depend on a good deal of hand-holding (but I hope that Gentoo will
help make me a little more independant)

Dotan Cohen
http://simplesniff.com