Congratulations to our devs and supports on this release. I would say that Kubuntu 8.10 is the most advance OS I have used in quite awhile. I love the kde 4 interface, and now with this release of Kubuntu, all the kde 3.5.old is gone making it a much more enjoyable kde 4 experience. I'm using it as my main OS now, even though it's only an Alpha release.
First I would like to thank everyone who has put some effort behind Adept. With version 3, It has to be the most beautiful Package Manager to date. It's faster than synaptic and much more usable than previous releases. I have been a long time user of synaptic, even in the KDE environment, I have always preferred synaptic over adept, ClickNRun, Kpackage, Smart package Manager, etc... However, this release of Adept is fresh and pleasing to use. Once a few more of the bugs are squished, I will remove all traces of synaptic from my computer. The only thing is see missing, which I'm sure will be added, is a way to view the packages by status(Upgradeable, installed, not-install, new, etc....)
The newst plamoid, Quick Access is awesome. I would have to say that it's one of the most useful plamoids released so far(not a fan of the folderview plasmoid) But as much as I like this, i think it some how could be intergrated into the main menu.....
Which leads me to Lancelot. lancelot is the ****, no doubt about it. Much better than kickoff menu or the abandoned raptor menu. It's no click interface makes it fun the use. The Lancelot menu is exclusive to Linux and Vista, Xp nor Mac have anything that looks like it nor as simple to use. The no-click interface make it fun to use. I look for it in the future to get some more customization options, but as it stands, Lancelot is first in class. I hope that this menu replaces kickoff in kde 4.2 or atleast in the next release of kubuntu.
However one minor issue I have with kubuntu is WHERE IS FIREFOX?!?!?! Can anyone give me one good reason why I have to open a package manager and download it? I mean it ships as default for many Distros,(PCLinuxOS, OpenSUSE, and UBUNTU) so why not Kubuntu? And with that being said how come firefox is so ugly with kubuntu? I think it needs an extension, much like the one that ships with ubuntu, that offers some basic fixes. Like a custom Kubuntu page, A theme that actually matches KDE 4.1, you know what I'm talking about. It's not a big deal, it's just something i would think that would improve user experience.
I'm not sure if this post went in the right area, but i'm sure it can be moved if needed. I appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into my distro, thanks for everyone that makes it possible.
First I would like to thank everyone who has put some effort behind Adept. With version 3, It has to be the most beautiful Package Manager to date. It's faster than synaptic and much more usable than previous releases. I have been a long time user of synaptic, even in the KDE environment, I have always preferred synaptic over adept, ClickNRun, Kpackage, Smart package Manager, etc... However, this release of Adept is fresh and pleasing to use. Once a few more of the bugs are squished, I will remove all traces of synaptic from my computer. The only thing is see missing, which I'm sure will be added, is a way to view the packages by status(Upgradeable, installed, not-install, new, etc....)
The newst plamoid, Quick Access is awesome. I would have to say that it's one of the most useful plamoids released so far(not a fan of the folderview plasmoid) But as much as I like this, i think it some how could be intergrated into the main menu.....
Which leads me to Lancelot. lancelot is the ****, no doubt about it. Much better than kickoff menu or the abandoned raptor menu. It's no click interface makes it fun the use. The Lancelot menu is exclusive to Linux and Vista, Xp nor Mac have anything that looks like it nor as simple to use. The no-click interface make it fun to use. I look for it in the future to get some more customization options, but as it stands, Lancelot is first in class. I hope that this menu replaces kickoff in kde 4.2 or atleast in the next release of kubuntu.
However one minor issue I have with kubuntu is WHERE IS FIREFOX?!?!?! Can anyone give me one good reason why I have to open a package manager and download it? I mean it ships as default for many Distros,(PCLinuxOS, OpenSUSE, and UBUNTU) so why not Kubuntu? And with that being said how come firefox is so ugly with kubuntu? I think it needs an extension, much like the one that ships with ubuntu, that offers some basic fixes. Like a custom Kubuntu page, A theme that actually matches KDE 4.1, you know what I'm talking about. It's not a big deal, it's just something i would think that would improve user experience.
I'm not sure if this post went in the right area, but i'm sure it can be moved if needed. I appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into my distro, thanks for everyone that makes it possible.
As far as i know, opera is not even in the repos. I belive that PCLinuxOS ships with it, and Opensuse might to(if not it's in the repos)
it's a sad story) Her sister got her a laptop off ebay and she gave it to me to install the wireless card. It came with Windows Vista, however, she had not used vista before. So trying to have some fun, i thought i would install kubuntu 8.04 with kde 4.1 to see it she would know the difference, needless to say she did not know which one was which, however, she did prefer kubuntu over vista. this laptop only had a gig of ram, so the vista performance was rather poor. She now actually loves using linux vs windows. things like adept where she can download programs without ever having to worry about viruses made kubuntu a win-win situation. She said linux just made sense. I was so proud of her.
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