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.