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Kubuntu

Posted Mar 26, 2007 7:41 UTC (Mon) by morhippo (subscriber, #334)
Parent article: Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released

I was not too impressed...

I tried this beta as the first ubuntu ever.
Nice graphics during boot.
Downloaded firmware for my dvb-t tv card automatically from the net(Was impressed here)
but was then not able to play mpeg files as distributed via dvb-t.
No obvious solution. Extra codecs were greyed out in the adept installer (amd64 error?)
No manual gave any hints how to solve this

Knetworkmanager was unable to start the wireless lan with my rt2500 pci wlan card. Debugging was difficult, as no error messages at all were shown and the program simply hung for minutes upon each attempt.

At this point I decided to install the latest sidux, which was much more advanced user friendly. For anyone with linux experience I strongly recommend sidux above kubuntu, if you like KDE and have an amd64 machine.

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Kubuntu

Posted Mar 26, 2007 13:13 UTC (Mon) by ipes (guest, #43384) [Link]

My biggest gripe with Kubuntu so far is that even though it's KDE based, it comes without KPlayer, you have to get it from Marillat's debian-multimedia repo. Not a big deal of course, but not exactly user friendly if you ask me.