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From LTS to LTS

  Date: Dec 27    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 358
  

I have been happily running Kubuntu LTS on my laptop for about six
months during which time I have picked up no end of interesting info
from the group.

Yesterday out of pure interest I decided to download, burn and run
"live" the latest Ubuntu version "live" Cd. Now I am used to the very
nice KDE front end and was somewhat dismayed at the loss of the nice
graphic based toolkit etc.

When I first ran Dapper "ubuntu from the "live" CD it just worked
without intervention of any kind, Using the "live" CD I connected to
the network machines [FreeBSD and XP] and to the BSD server etc. This
was completely automatic. Samba was set up for me and the install
system did all of the work. I thought that I had found the working
mans Linux, So I installed it, dual booted it with XP [never used at
all now] and I was up and working in a little over an hour.

However the latest edition of Ubuntu does anything but that. No
internet connection, network connection etc.I assume that sooner or
later there will be a Kubuntu LTS version of the latest stable
offering. I will wait until then to move onward as I regard the new
version needing [lord knows what] work setting up - to get it to the
point where I can do real work, as a retrograde step. I use the
machines as work enabling tools not toys. Any operating system that
claims to be desktop ready should be just that.

So, great fun maybe as a toy to tinker with when time allows but as a
useable tool ready to work the latest offering seems pretty grim.

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2 Answers Found

 
Answer #1    Answered On: Dec 27    


You are speaking of 8.04?

First crack out of the box, 8.04 configured my geforce video, my
internet, and my sound card correctly, with no intervention from me.
Which is a good thing because being a real newbie (this is my first
install), I would have had no idea how to get the internet connect
going and would have flailed about quite a bit. I didn't try kubuntu
8.04, may try that next.

 
Answer #2    Answered On: Dec 27    


Hardy Heron or Kubuntu 8.04 is the LTS version. You will have to wait for two
more years for another one. If it does not do what you want from the Live CD,
then it is a sign that configuring your hardware with the latest release could
take more work on your part. This could be because of a change in direction for
the Kubuntu developers since Dapper or it could be that your hardware drivers
are not included in the release due to having to put new ones in and still
having to fit it on a single CD. Out with the old and in with the new in some
cases.

This may seem as a step backwards for you, but there are others who see it as a
step forward. You can try to please everyone, but you usually fail. So we have
to settle for trying to do what most people are asking for and the Ubuntu/
Kubuntu team really go out of their way to do this with such projects as
Launchpad and Brainstorm.

All I can suggest is that you stick with what is working or that you bite the
bullet and get help with making the upgrade work through this forum and Ubuntu
Forums itself. Laptops are notoriously bad for configuring due to the amount of
proprietary parts. That being said there is likely a user out there running the
same equipment as you with Hardy Heron working. Perhaps you could do some
advance work in the forums to find such a person, before you upgrade and he or
she can mentor you.

 
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