3rd Party Applications

[Steven Vollom]

On Monday 03 August 2009 09:20:39 pm Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:11:29 -0500, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> > Steven, If I might make a suggestion.
> >
> > If I were you I would concentrate on getting one _VERY_ stable computer
> > first. If your newer machine is buggy then make your older one the
> > stable machine.  _THEN_ you can use the other one to play around with.
> > That way you will always have a system that works well. Just don't mess
> > with the stable machine.
>
> Yes, on your older Pentium 4 machine (IIRC) Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (and 8.10 and
> 9.04) should work without problems.
>
> About your new computer, according to:
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/2009-August/045496.html
>
> you _should_ be able to get to the grub menu in Jaunty; also there seem
> to be more recent kernels then you are using ...
>
> Good luck!
>
>     -Frans

I just got your message.  I haven't followed the link yet, because the talk of 
other kernels interests me.  I thought they came in updates or upgrades.  I 
did not know you could install them.  Would installing a different kernel 
potentially fix my problem?  I don't know much about this.

With other Kubuntu applications, I have always had a list of different kernels 
to chose from.  As I recall there was also a safe open, and disk repair or 
something.  When I see my boot menu, it only contains the one boot 
possibility.  Is that the way it is with Jaunty?

Thanks.

Steven