Alternatives to Kubuntu, was Re: KDE 4.0.0!

[Dotan Cohen]

On 18/01/2008, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Billie Walsh wrote:
>
> > On 01/18/2008 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> Thank you, I'll start getting used to it. Coming from you and your
> >> extensive experience, I have no choice but to follow your advice and
> >> get used to reinstalling tens of operating systems twice a year.
> >
> > Sarcasm ill becomes you.
>
> I don't know - I think he does fine with it :-)
>
> > Perhaps rather than holding the hands of those you "convert" it would
> > serve them better to teach them.
>
> It's not necessary to do either.  I don't maintain nearly as many systems as
> Dotan, but I download all packages to one system, check out all the
> updates, and when I'm happy with them use "apt-move" to build a partial
> mirror.  My other systems update from _my_ mirror, not Ubuntu's.
>
> Users can learn how to use the package system, override the sources, and be
> on their own, or they can take updates whenever they see the update icon in
> the system tray.
>
> No muss, no fuss, on my part.

I still use the Ubuntu repos, but I only update the systems when I
visit someone for other reasons. That's why I settled on Kubuntu:
Fedora had people calling me with "this broke" or "that stopped
working" way to often. Kubuntu is a reliable, stable OS. That is why I
am opposed to the inclusion of KDE 4.0. KDE 4.0 is _not_ stable nor
reliable.

I would ideally SSH into these machines once in a while to make sure
all is fine, but the university firewall makes that impossible.

Dotan Cohen

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