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    hardy amd64 updates and problems

    I installed 8.04amd64 from latest alternative cd. Then had 200M of updates. Recently there were more updates, another 200M. Mostly updating KDE3.5.9 to 3.5.10. For long term stable this seems excessive.

    There were originally several problems regarding excesive cpu usage, kdesu, opera pluginwraps, gwenview.

    Kdesu goes to 100% cpu usage after some time, this seems to be a problem from many years ago but not fixed, apart from manually "kill kdesu"

    Opera fixed before last upgrade. Now has problems again.

    Kmail has problem with certificate from pop server, tell it to accept "forever" means till next mail check. This probably related to next item.

    Kwallet nolonger works, has no wallets and can't set any new ones up. This problem seem to have been in existance for several years.

    Ksysguard loses the plot of eth0 data transfers. Eth0 is there when it starts but just disapears. the graphs have some symbol on them but no info.

    Gwenview gets 'lost' and just crashes.

    Anyone have any ideas or should I switch to another distro?
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    Re: hardy amd64 updates and problems

    I'm thinking the same thing.

    "IF" I can get the winmodem to work, I still have tons of problems too.

    I have reinstalled 8.10 on four different occasions from the CD, and it's never the same.

    May try 32bit version, but it seems pretty sad when almost all the new hardware is 64bit capable, and we are still working in a 32bit world.
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      Re: hardy amd64 updates and problems

      i installed 8.10 from a cd iso that i downloaded as a boot option w/ grub on my three year old Sager laptop. So far no major problems in the two weeks or so since installing, but i installed w/ kde 4 over it and *that* is weird!

      kde4 is so far different from 3.5 that it's actually a bit hard to figure out. from my familiarity w/ MAC OSX i'm thinking some of the developers used that as a model to some extent and I *don't* like it. it may be functional, but it's *not* intuitive; and that's from a guy who's used various MS, Apple and *nix operating systems.
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