Kubuntu vs .Ubuntu

[Donald Iddings]

On Saturday 03 March 2007 21:09, Man-Chicken wrote:
> On Saturday 03 March 2007 19:14:58 Donald Iddings wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 March 2007 18:58, Man-Chicken wrote:
> > > there are no real differences to watch out for.  The only differences
> > > are desktop packages and artwork.  You can actually have both at the
> > > same time.
> > >
> > > On Saturday 03 March 2007 18:01:46 Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
> > > > I am looking at the discussion about Dell offering (at some point)
> > > > computers with Linux pre-installed, and it seems that there is some
> > > > likelihood that Ubuntu might be one of the options. But I don't know
> > > > if that would include Kubuntu. I know I could just install it myself,
> > > > but the real issue for me is having drivers for all of the hardware
> > > > (what I really need right now is a laptop), and I would not want to
> > > > take a chance on having something not work. Would changing the
> > > > desktop from Gnome to KDE on an Ubuntu installation be identical to
> > > > Kubuntu, or are there other differences I should watch out for?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL
> > > > zwilnik at zwilnik.com Linux User #333216
> > > > "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and
> > > > not enough the bad luck of the early worm." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
> > >
> > > --
> > > ~ Man-Chicken <><
> > > (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nfluence with large hammer.
> > > The number of the beast - vi vi vi
> >
> > yes I my base install was ubuntu edgy but I dual boot between just
> > the two desktops kde & gnome, have a mail account in each etc, the reason
> > is I used to use Mandrake which uses kde desktop so I was more familiar
> > with kde not that I had anything against gnome, just wanted to experiment
> > some see which one I really preferred over some period of time
> >
> > --
> > iddingdj04 at comcast.net
>
> Why dual boot?  You can use both desktop environments on the same machine
> at the same time if you so choose.  No need to dual boot.  There is no
> Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu, they're the same thing with different desktops.
>  They're even run by the same group of people.
>
>
> --
> ~ Man-Chicken <><
> (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nfluence with large hammer.
> The number of the beast - vi vi vi

that is what i did, base install was ubu & then installed just the kde 
desktop only from the pkg mgr so really just dual booting between 
desktops, @ the logon screen click options & choose which desktop to 
logon to & choose one for the default etc
-- 
iddingdj04 at comcast.net