Am Freitag, 25. Januar 2013 schrieb Mike McGinn: > On Friday, January 25, 2013 08:11:48 Rob Owens wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:05:00AM -0500, Mike McGinn wrote: > > > I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of RAM and have been a > > > 'buntu user since release 7.04. With each release of the new OS from > > > Kubuntu I have been less and less happy with the so called "quality" > > > and I am planning a move to Debian. As a Kontact user the problems > > > reported with the new versions of that particular package are > > > dictating the move to Squeeze. (I subscribe to both the kde-pim > > > users and developers mail lists.) > > > > > > I have been experimenting with an installation in a virtual machine > > > and I am getting ready to make the jump. I am happy with what I have > > > experienced in my VM and I just want to know if there are any > > > pitfalls I have not foreseen. My system is backed up every night, so > > > I am not worried about losing anything. > > > > Squeeze is fairly old at this point, and will be replaced shortly (a > > few months, maybe?) with Wheezy. Squeeze will still be supported for > > a year after that -- or have they committed to two years now? But my > > point is that you might want to consider Wheezy. Wheezy is currently > > the "testing" distribution, but will be released as "stable" as soon > > as it's ready. > > > > If you run into any hardware compatibility issues with the stable > > release, you can always look into getting a newer kernel from the > > backports repository: > > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports > > main […] > Hi Rob, > Thanks for the information on Wheezy. > > My main concern now with KDE is avoiding the mess that is going on with > the kde-pim, I have been using that for years and have a few gig of > email stored in it. Right now I want to use the older version. I did > some research last night (google) and found no incompatibilities with > my laptop. The new version of kde-pim has been a mess for some time now > and from the traffic on the developers and users list there is no end in > sight. I will move to Wheezy when it becomes stable and if it has a > usable kde-pim. > > I do have several servers at work that I am going to be moving from > Ubuntu server to Debian also.
Mike, Wheezy still has KDEPIM 1 as of KDE SC 4.4.11. I am using Debian Sid here and typing this from this KDEPIM 1 installation that hosts a million of mails at least. In fact there are still no official KDEPIM 2 packages available for Debian at all. So I suggest Wheezy to you as well. Spares you an upgrade (which is nothing to be scared about in Debian, really, in case you need a help with an upgrade or have an issue, just ask here, I never saw a Debian upgrade that failed, never ever, and I have seen and done a lot of them). -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201301271309.30791.mar...@lichtvoll.de
