My old system (Mandriva 2005 LE) had a hardware failure, so I decided it was a great time to move to Kubuntu 9.10, built from scratch on all new (to linux) hardware.
Background: I'm a Sr. Systems Administrator, in the business of contract Linux server administration, but even after all these years, I still consider myself a beginner on the Linux Desktop. However I haven't used MSWindows in years and I've never used Mac OS. My laptop runs the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and I have no problems with it.
I didn't just restore my old home directory; I understand the dangers. I moved files I needed (but no configurations at all) and I imported my Kmail email directories into my new Kmail installation. The only configuration I moved verbatim were my Kalarm files.
Old hardware was (I'm going from memory here) 1GB of memory, a 3Ghz Intel P4.
New hardware is 2GB of memory, AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4600+. It's just an office desktop and I figured this would be enough, but maybe I'm wrong. I can't find where I'm supposed to set up my video hardware, but a check for drivers says no proprietary drivers are found on the system.
At least twice a day my session has been closing on me, no matter what I'm doing, and even when top shows I've got plenty of memory left.
One problem I've noticed: KAlarm open alarms show up on the task manager panel (I think that's what it's called) even when I'm on a different desktop.
Sometimes when I start up Kontact (I run kmail from inside Kontact) kmail takes up to an hour or more before it becomes responsive enough to use, and if I click on a folder on the left side, then the folder contents starts scrolling uncontrollably.
I do have over 6GB of email in the various folders, all imported by kmail.
And when I don't run kmail, the system doesn't crash.
Anyone else notice any similar problems?
Jeff
Background: I'm a Sr. Systems Administrator, in the business of contract Linux server administration, but even after all these years, I still consider myself a beginner on the Linux Desktop. However I haven't used MSWindows in years and I've never used Mac OS. My laptop runs the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and I have no problems with it.
I didn't just restore my old home directory; I understand the dangers. I moved files I needed (but no configurations at all) and I imported my Kmail email directories into my new Kmail installation. The only configuration I moved verbatim were my Kalarm files.
Old hardware was (I'm going from memory here) 1GB of memory, a 3Ghz Intel P4.
New hardware is 2GB of memory, AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4600+. It's just an office desktop and I figured this would be enough, but maybe I'm wrong. I can't find where I'm supposed to set up my video hardware, but a check for drivers says no proprietary drivers are found on the system.
At least twice a day my session has been closing on me, no matter what I'm doing, and even when top shows I've got plenty of memory left.
One problem I've noticed: KAlarm open alarms show up on the task manager panel (I think that's what it's called) even when I'm on a different desktop.
Sometimes when I start up Kontact (I run kmail from inside Kontact) kmail takes up to an hour or more before it becomes responsive enough to use, and if I click on a folder on the left side, then the folder contents starts scrolling uncontrollably.
I do have over 6GB of email in the various folders, all imported by kmail.
And when I don't run kmail, the system doesn't crash.
Anyone else notice any similar problems?
Jeff
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