New Ubuntu/Kubuntu user

[Scott]

Andy Choens wrote:

>Look at:
>http://www.kubuntu.org/hoary-kde-342.php
>
>There are a whole list of repositories you can use to get thelatest
>and greatest KDE.
>
Thank you, I will take a look.  I switched over to Linux a couple months 
ago from evil M$ :) and I still have much to learn.

>  I don't know of any wildly up-to-date repos of OOo,
>but I use koffice, so I'm quite happy with the repos listed in the
>above page.
>  
>
I tried using KOffice when I first used Linux because I liked the 
smaller download and how it is better integrated into KDE, but it kept 
on crashing when I tried to use the spell checker so I went back to OOo 
(which I used in the M$ days).

>If you check the Ubuntu forums there have been some discussions about
>converting the supplied OOo rpms into debs.
>
That would be nice, I would like to install some of the stuff myself.  I 
tried alien today and had no luck with it when I tried to install the 
newest Nvu.

>Note: this is going to get you a BETA version of OOo, not a recent stable
>release.  Although, OOo BETAS were very stable back in the pre-1.0
>days in my experience.
>
>I played around with OOo 2
>
I liked the OOo 2 beta and found the 79 on the repository so I am using 
that now.

>I'm trying to stay far away from the battle that's going to erupt in the GNOME
>camp.  Speaking of this, I think I'll go and start a major flamewar on
>the Ubuntu list.  This should be interesting.
>  
>
What is the battle?

-- 
Your Friend,
Scott

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