Hellow

[Jarfish]

Hi, I am new here around. I am a Windows7 user and I'll dual boot soon to Kubuntu. But I will take a backup first before I do that. Ordered an external HD. I tried ubuntu, fedora and uberstudent. But I don't like the way it looks. Then I saw Kubuntu Man I love the eye candy 8)

[Ole Juul]

Re: Hellow

Welcome Jarfish.

Glad you love the eyecandy. What you'll love even more is the fact that you can make it even better yourself. This is not like MS and what you get out of the box is not really meaningful, because it's just an example configuration. This is your system, not somebody else's.

[Jarfish]

Re: Hellow

Thanks for the welcome Ole Juul

Who knows I'll migrate to a nice linux eye candy desktop (yum). I first wanted to start with Chakra but it is a little too technical for me. I'll get my hands dirty with kubuntu first. It got more financial backing and it has a larger community for support questions.

[woodsmoke]

Re: Hellow

Welcome Jarfish!

I tried Uberstudent myself and was impress pretty well until I saw the number of linkys to non-free stuff. It's not that I don't like non-free stuff, it is just that i'm into Libre and donating.

As to Ubu or Kubu I think it is partly what one wants in eyecandy! lol.... I know you can change themes etc. in Ubu, but as you said, Kubu just has a different "feel" to it!

so, again, welcome!
woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Re: Hellow

Welcome aboard, Jarfish!

Allow me to make a suggestion: rather than partition your Win7 HD, give the wubi.exe installation method a try. When you download the 64 bit Kubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support (28 more months of support left) ISO you can extract the wubi.exe file that comes with it. Put it in the same directory as the ISO you got it from, then from Win7 run wubi.exe as administrator. It will ask you how many GB you want to use. (At least 15GB, more if you want to do a lot of stuff -- say 30GB) Then it will ask you for an account name and a password. After that it will install Kubuntu. Takes just a couple minutes and then you'll be asked to reboot. When you reboot you will see the Windows boot option menu showing windows 7 in the first (default) postition and Ubuntu (really Kubuntu) in the second. You can make Ubuntu the default using the appropriate Windows tool. After you reboot into Kubuntu you will want to open a Konsole and issue:
sudo apt-get install synaptic
to install the Synaptic package manager. Then run Synaptic and check all the repositories to make them active. Synaptic is a lot easier and better than KpackageKit.

If you want to remove Kubuntu you can use the Control Panel and remove it like you would any other program -- the HD partitioning isn't necessary. When you run Kubuntu remember that Windows 7 is NOT running.. What is happening is that Kubuntu is present on the NTFS as a large file and the boot loader uses a technique similar to the Linux "mount -loop" loopback command to bring Kubuntu up.. Kubuntu has direct access to all the hardware. The odds are that everything will "just work" with little or no adjusting required. If it turns out that you are in the 5% who have significant problems running Kubuntu 10.04 on your system you can the Win7 control panel to remove it. No harm. No foul.

I used the wubi.exe to install and run Kubuntu 10.04 on my wife's new Acer Aspire One A0521-3782 and it runs as fast or faster than Win7 does. Stellarium, the astronomy program, gives 30-50 fps. I also removed all the AV stuff (McAfee, etc.) and installed Microsoft's Security Essentials, which is very good, free, and has no nag ware.
http://www.thinktechno.com/2010/11/2...ws-using-wubi/
which will lead you to:
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ub...dows-installer
but that will install 10.10, not 10.04.

Remember, a wubi.exe file seems to be specific for a particular release. It's best to get wubi.exe from the ISO you are going to install.

[Jarfish]

Re: Hellow

Well I never done that before. I saw it once in "This week in linux", I'll give it a try and see how it works. Question: My Win 7 (ultimate) is 64 bit does it have to be the 64 bit linux version in the wubi?

[GreyGeek]

Re: Hellow

No, but a 64b OS takes advantage of all of the hardware and is about 15% faster.

[Jarfish]

Re: Hellow

Thx for the info I'll test it

[Jarfish]

Re: Hellow

I am typing this message in my Kubuntu 10.10 (32 bit) wubi desktop. After tweaking a bit I finally made it work. Had some probs with the keyboard and network. But nothing i couldn't handle

[Snowhog]

Re: Hellow

Now you can join the rest of us in our adventures with Kubuntu Linux!