Kubuntu a dist in crisis?

David McGlone david at dmcentral.net
Sat Oct 24 12:34:23 UTC 2009


On Saturday 24 October 2009 04:28:14 O. Sinclair wrote:
> http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=1032
>
> Read - do you agree? To some extent I do, at least on bugs not being
> attended to even if they are serious.
>
> And no, am not a coder so can not do much to assist there. And yes,
> still with Kubuntu and doing what I can to spread it.

I have experienced many of the things the author described.

After about 12 years, I finally gave Gnome a serious try and for the past 2 
months I feel like I've finally been able to get my computer to work for ME 
instead of Googling for fixes that should have been fixed long long ago.

I couldn't get Knetworkmanager to work for me, it wouldn't even list other 
wireless networks around and I had to resort to using ifup/down. On the other 
hand Gnome's Network Manager works and finds 4 other networks in my area and to 
top if off, Gnomes Network Manager finds all the free wifi hotspots such as 
McDonalds and the Public Library, where-areas I couldn't do that with KDE's 
Network Manager for some reason. :-( 

But, on the other hand, I do not like any of Gnome's E-Mail applications so I 
installed Kmail. I also installed kasablanca for quick ftp.

P.S. I am not trolling. I am merely sharing my experiences from the last 2 
months.




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