Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-11-08 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:10 +, mercha...@onetel.com wrote: > I also did the Upgrade over the air/Internet on Friday. Now I don't have any > wireless. I can't find a way of starting the wireless (Yet) and I > notice on the > ubuntuforums that it seems to be a problem. Otherwise, as Terry says,

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-11-03 Thread merchant1
Quoting Terry Coles : > On Sunday 01 Nov 2009, mercha...@onetel.com wrote: >> I also did the Upgrade over the air/Internet on Friday. Now I don't have >> any wireless. I can't find a way of starting the wireless (Yet) and I >> notice on the >> ubuntuforums that it seems to be a problem. Otherwise

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-11-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 01 Nov 2009, mercha...@onetel.com wrote: > I also did the Upgrade over the air/Internet on Friday. Now I don't have > any wireless. I can't find a way of starting the wireless (Yet) and I > notice on the > ubuntuforums that it seems to be a problem. Otherwise, as Terry says, It > seems

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-11-01 Thread merchant1
I also did the Upgrade over the air/Internet on Friday. Now I don't have any wireless. I can't find a way of starting the wireless (Yet) and I notice on the ubuntuforums that it seems to be a problem. Otherwise, as Terry says, It seems faster. Peter M. ( this mail sent from the on-line acces

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-11-01 Thread Robert Bronsdon
KDE 4.3 is a big improvement on 4.2 (I'm in the Fedora camp over here). Much more stable and many of the quirks ironed out. Thats not to say its "finished" yet, just at a point where its useable. -- Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-11-01 Thread Kevin Giles
Hi Terry, Thanks for the review. I have been using Kubuntu 9.04 far about three months & will be very glad to get away from KDE 4.2. This was the first distro that made me think what a good system MS-Windows is, it's one of those distro versions that should have been strangled at birth. However

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-11-01 Thread Sean Gibbins
Terry Coles wrote: > On Sunday 01 Nov 2009, Simon P Smith wrote: > >> The only thing that niggled me about doing an upgrade is that you >> are still left with ext3 filesystem rather than ext4 whcih is now >> default. >> >> I changed my netbook to ext4 and found this even faster. >> >> Or did you

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-11-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 01 Nov 2009, Simon P Smith wrote: > The only thing that niggled me about doing an upgrade is that you > are still left with ext3 filesystem rather than ext4 whcih is now > default. > > I changed my netbook to ext4 and found this even faster. > > Or did you convert the filesystem? Actua

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-11-01 Thread Sean Gibbins
Simon P Smith wrote: > Terry, > > The only thing that niggled me about doing an upgrade is that you > are still left with ext3 filesystem rather than ext4 whcih is now > default. > > I changed my netbook to ext4 and found this even faster. > > Or did you convert the filesystem? > > Si > I've done

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-11-01 Thread Simon P Smith
Terry, The only thing that niggled me about doing an upgrade is that you are still left with ext3 filesystem rather than ext4 whcih is now default. I changed my netbook to ext4 and found this even faster. Or did you convert the filesystem? Si On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:17:34 +, Terry Coles wr

[Dorset] Kubuntu 9.10 REview

2009-10-31 Thread Terry Coles
I ran the upgrade from Kubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 on this machine yesterday (2 core AMD Althlon with 1 GB RAM). Here is what I've found: 1. The servers were completely choked on Thursday evening, so I stopped the upgrade with around 40% of the download remaining. I was warned that this was a risk,