Intrepid KDE problems (was Community V. Community)

[Christopher Chan]

John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>   
>>> Goddamn it, there are problems in KDE in Intrepid so bad as for it to
>>> be laughable? Why wasn't I told? Damn computer been no use since I
>>> upgraded to Jaunty and is because of the laughable KDE4
>>> implementation?
>>>
>>>       
>> Yes. For a school environment where I want to create profiles per group.
>>
>> KDE3 is the only desktop on Linux that has a tool for that purpose
>> (kiosktool) and that needs to be ported over to KDE4 before I even try
>> to push Linux on the desktop again.
>>     
>
> Until this is done, what is wrong with using Kubuntu 8.04.2?
>    "This update is provided in recognition that the current
> Kubuntu release (8.10) with its cutting edge KDE 4 desktop is not yet
> appropriate for all users."
>    http://www.kubuntu.org/
>
> I seem to remember that there wasn't that much new in Intrepid: no new
> Firefox an no new OpenOffice.org.
>
> Is there anything missing from Hardy that you need?
>
>   
Sound in KDE. I have KDE4 working with pulseaudio in Intrepid. I need to 
look into Hardy a bit on this one.