Moving to Kubuntu from Ubuntu

[gavinjb]

Hi,

When the latest version of Kubuntu is released next month I am looking at moving back to Kubuntu from using Ubuntu, but have a couple of questions.

1. On the Ubuntu forums there is an HowTo on how to setup support for Media Files (MP3 etc...) (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=413626), will this work on Kubuntu or is there an alternative guide for Kubuntu

2. I am planning to do a clean install of Kubuntu, can I just format root and leave my /home partition unformatted (on different partition) and will this work during install, (I do have all my data backed up to an external drive, but I would like to do things the easy way if I can)

Thanks,


Gavin,

[eriefisher]

Re: Moving to Kubuntu from Ubuntu

For the codecs, Kubuntu still uses the medibuntu repo but it uses different packages. They are easy to get once installed. Instead of the Gstreamer stuff it uses libxine-extracodecs as well as others.

I would recommend backing up all you personal files or creating another partition for you personal stuff outside of /home and start fresh to avoid leftover config files an such. A separate partition would also help should you ever have to reinstall or move to another distro.

eriefisher

[dibl]

Re: Moving to Kubuntu from Ubuntu

I would recommend backing up all you personal files or creating another partition for you personal stuff outside of /home and start fresh to avoid leftover config files an such. A separate partition would also help should you ever have to reinstall or move to another distro.

eriefisher's advice is good. Having just done essentially the same thing, I can tell you that if you choose to "re-use" the /home partition, you will have some non-functional configuration items left over from the prior installation. It's not a big deal, and doesn't affect performance or functionality -- you just have some blank icons to send to the trashcan, and maybe some bogus auto-start programs. It would certainly be cleaner looking if you could just set it up completely new.

[gavinjb]

Re: Moving to Kubuntu from Ubuntu

Thanks, I thought formating would be the way to go, would have just been quicker if I didn't (as I have over 40gb of digital photos), I will make sure I run my FullSync Backup job which does an exact copy of all my data from Home/Documents to my External drive.

One more quick question what would you recommend to format the drive as ext3 or raiserfs, I am currently using ext3, as I am fairly new to Linux not sure what the advantages/disadvantages of raiser is over ext3


Thanks,


Gavin,

[dibl]

Re: Moving to Kubuntu from Ubuntu

what would you recommend to format the drive as ext3 or reiserfs

AFAIK, for personal workstation/desktop users, this is truly just a matter of taste. For laptops, the slower boot up of reiserfs is a disadvantage. I'm on a desktop and I use reiserfs because I think it may be a little more rugged in its ability to recover after my electric company sends me a little power outage. :P

Other folks probably have other views, of course -- that's the way "matters of taste" go ....

[gavinjb]

Re: Moving to Kubuntu from Ubuntu

Thanks, I will stay with Ext3 then as I am running on a Laptop and having a nice fast startup is always an advantage (under 1 min including login compared to xp with 5 mins if I was lucky )