[nmglug] Ubuntu Distributions,

[Jeffrey Miller]

Excellent, Ted!  Thanks for sharing.

We are still using  DVD version of 11.10 of Edubuntu for live booting purposes at our school.  I'll have to look into the differences in the educational software for both options.  We are still looking at JumpDrives for booting options.  But may now move to some type of NetBoot option for loading Edubuntu.

Thanks again, Ted.

Peace

On Mar 18, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:

> To All, and especially the small group at our last meeting, Hello and
> thank you for interest and comments about the new Long Term Support
> editions of Ubuntu. I think that I will switch to Kubuntu for several
> reasons:
> 1.It is customizable by the user, giving the user controls over what
> software runs and the settings for that software.
> 2.KDE is a community project, and 'Unity' is a corporate project
> originating out of the goals and workings of Canonical. They are still
> a good curator/gatekeeper for selecting and tuning from the Debian
> repositories which makes it easier for me to use programs. Canonical
> in Ubuntu does work out the incompatibilities or conflicts that
> sometimes arise between packages.
> 3.KDE is menu based, and I happen to like menus and a system that
> works like a list of contents or an index. It will mean learning a
> slightly different lest than Gnome 2.x, but seems better than other
> options at this time.
> 4.KDE and the 'K' packages have some very good things I already use,
> especially Kstars. It will mean learning the settings menu and a new
> environment: Qtk instead of gtk, but I guess that will have to be part
> of the effort this year.
> 5. I confess I like the easy way Ubuntu allows addition of the NON
> Free bits, which enable Flash and mp3 and some dvd playing. We
> certainly are in a crush of loss of freedom and I may change my mind
> on these eventually. (Keep reminding me of my errors, all you purists
> and higher beings.)
> I will not be installing right away, there is a full year to go on
> Lucid 10.04 LTS. I may even extend my use beyond the support as I did
> with 8.10.  I will be using a live disk of the latest stable version -
> 11.10, Oneric, which I have already downloaded. I may also try
> Xubuntu, as an alternative. But I really like all the tweaking
> available in KDE versus other current options. May someday I will just
> use Debian stable and pick and choose in the Debian repositories
> directly.
> Thanks for your thoughts, see you next meeting, Ted P.
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