Cautious possible new member/user

[Stephen Constantinou]

Dear All

Thanks to all for the responses.  It has gone along way to helping me 
make a decision.  Along with the realisation that my mouse right click 
is not working after this upgrade.

I want to clarify only one point and sorry if I am being idiotic for not 
understanding.  I am about to download the ISO for Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop 
Edition.  Will this include KDE as an option?

If not is there a download for Kubuntu.  This will be quicker than a 
postal purchase via the USA.

Thanks and wait to hear

Stephen, Wales, UK

Tim M wrote:
> On 12/9/07, Stephen Constantinou <stephanos at writeme.com> wrote:
>> Dear All
>>
>> After lots of loyalty to Mandrake/Mandriva I have experienced more
>> things not working out of the box as I have happily ungraded from
>> earlier versions.  My level of skill is low, though I do know I have
>> learnt a lot since Mandrake 8.5.  I know calculate four things that used
>> to be working by default as not working now without user intervention.
>> Even autofs was not working automatically, which means I will have to
>> manually mount unless I use up some tech support to learn to overcome
>> this.  I have never managed to get my onboard/soft dial up modem on my
>> laptop working in any version of Linux.
>>
>> I have browsed the website but I cannot find an exhaustive list of
>> applications that you included.  Since Mandrva was on a DVD and I am
>> about to burn the ISO I want to check a few things so that I do not have
>> an unrealistic expectation.
>>
>> 1) Can I expect to have openssh installed by default so that all I have
>> to do is start konqueror and enter the ip/username of the other Linux
>> (Mandriva 2007) computer on my network?
>>
>> 2) Can I expect SAMBA to be installed by default with an entry in the
>> menu to start Samba when I want to connect to my Windows PC (which is
>> also the Mandriva 2007 as it dual boots)?
>>
>> 3) Can I expect Openoffice to be installed by default?
>>
>> 4) Does the Ubuntu have any othe VNC tools, not VNC itself.  In Mandriva
>> I was using a KDE tool the name of which might be like
>>
>> 5) Do I have to choose between Gnome and KDE or is one the default?
>>
>> 6) Are there any applications for watching DVDs?
>>
>> 7) Do you use CUPS
>>
>> 8) Every version of Mandrake/Mandriva I have ever had displys an error
>> message during boot that slamer (or something similar) could not be
>> found/loaded.  This I think relates to the soft modem.  Does Ubunto
>> support soft modems?  Please say yes!
>>
>> 9) Will my PCMCIA external CDROM be supported?
>>
>> 10) Will USB flash disks/pen disks, floppies and DVD/CD ROMS be
>> supported so that I only have to insert and they will be recognised?
>>
>> Hope to hear from you
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Stephen
>>
> On (1) openssh will have to be installed and configured. But it is no big deal.
> (2) Samba I believe will have to be installed and configured.
> (3) Open office is installed from the CD.
> (4) VNC is installed but I haven't used it in the last couple of upgrades.
> (5) Yup either KDE or Gnome . . . the default is Gnome unless you
> install from a Kubuntu disk.
> (6) Yup you can watch your DVD. I think when you click on Movie player
> it will download the drivers automatically.
> (7) Cup is used for printing
> (8) If you are referring to a DUN I don't use one so don't know.
> (9) Don't know but most likely. My USB card reader is picked up as
> soon as I plug it in.
> (10) see 9.
> 
> Now I will say I don't know a lot about Ubuntu or Linux but I really
> like Ubuntu. Just yesterday I was reinstalling XP for someone. I lost
> count of the number of CDs I had to find to get everything
> reinstalled.
> 
> Tim
>